January 20, 2010

House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals (1964)

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[1960-1964 Best Songs]

Billboard Top 100, 1964, #38 The Animals - The Best of The Animals - House of the Rising Sun

If you're a British Band, and you're going to cover an American Folk tune and convert it into a blues-rock masterpiece, you'd better have a pretty special singer as your front man.

Enter Eric Burdon, a 23-year-old from Newcastle, England who sounds like a 58-year-old from Biloxi.

Backing that formidable voice is an organ, which apparently Satan got to play as part of the deal.

There's no other explanation for such a voice and for such a song.

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