The House of the Rising Sun


Wikipedia - "'The House of the Rising Sun' is a traditional folk song from the United States. Also called 'House of the Rising Sun' or occasionally 'Rising Sun Blues', it tells of a life gone wrong in New Orleans. ... Like many classic folk ballads, the authorship of 'The House of the Rising Sun' is uncertain. Musicologists say that it is based on the tradition of broadside ballads such as the Unfortunate Rake of the 18th century and that English emigrants took the song to America where it was adapted to its later New Orleans setting. Alan Price of The Animals has even claimed that the song was originally a sixteenth-century English folk song about a Soho brothel. The oldest known existing recording is by Appalachian artists Clarence 'Tom' Ashley and Gwen Foster, who recorded it for Vocalion Records in 1934."
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