Could someone tell me who the original artist of this song is.

I've listened to many different versions of it, but I can't quite remember who the original artist is.

Not quite sure what era this is from?

I'm fairly certain its Eric Burden and the Animals.
This is my favourite version.  

Cheers :)

Everywhere I looked, it has says that music and lyrics are "traditional." I did find one site that had some interesting info. I have no idea who wrote this quote so I don't know who the "I" is.


When I was young, a few years back, us lads who thought we could play guitar had to master the first few bars of this tune. Back in the early 1920s, the name "Rising Sun" was attributed to brothels. The traditional version of "The House of the Rising Sun" speaks, not of a boy's experience, but of a girl's. Fact was, the Animals did not write "The House of the Rising Sun" If you look at the really small print on their 1966 album, The Best of the Animals, you'll find it was only arranged by Burdon / Chandler / Price / Steele / Valentine. According to folklorist Alan Lomax in his book Our Singing Country (1941), the melody of "The House of the Rising Run" is a traditional English tune and the lyrics were written by Georgia Turner and Bert Martin (both from Kentucky). Above are the traditional lyrics from Lomax's book. Did the House of the Rising Sun ever really exist? A guidebook called Offbeat New Orleans asserts: "The real House of the Rising Sun was at 826-830 St. Louis Street, between 1862 and 1874 and was named for its madam, Marianne LeSoleil Levant, whose surname translates to The Rising Sun". But no one knows for certain. Source: (Beware self-loading audio !) www.anvil.clara.net/thehouse.htm


This can be found at http://www.houlston.freeserve.co.uk/houseoftherisingsuntraditionallyrics.htm



Cat

I've also seen it credited to Price/Traditional. It reached #1 in 64.

Santa Esmarelda had the next version.

Howard

Allright thanks for the info guy's   ;)

Santa Esmeralda

1977  "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood"  *Casablanca
1978  "The House of the Rising Sun"  *Casablanca

Group Members:  Leroy Gomez, Jean-Claude Petit, Jimmy Goings

Styles:  Euro-Dance, Pop, Disco

Labels"  Hot Productions (7), Casablanca (3), Alex (2)

As disco became an important part of the international music business, European producers began working in exotic flavors into the disco beat to create unique and competitive recordings. A good example of this trend is Santa Esmeralda, a Spanish-themed studio group that wove elements of flamenco, salsa, and other Latin musical styles into its Euro-disco sound. Although the group's sound was about as genuinely Spanish as Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass (Santa Esmeralda was the brainchild of French record producers), the result was a crossover success that spawned several club-favorite albums and a notable pop hit in the band's Latinized cover of "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood."

When Bob Dylan recorded it, he credited it to himself.

Since Alan Price of the Animals wrote it, presume they were the original artist.

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Could someone tell me who the original artist of this song is.

I've listened to many different versions of it, but I can't quite remember who the original artist is.

Not quite sure what era this is from?
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Price wrote the organ-based riff that the tune was built on, but the words were adapted from the traditional song that Catwoman has given us so much wonderful info about.  :)

Unfortunately, because of a little creep in 4th grade (Danny Carter) playing it on his guitar...I never liked the song :-/

I know some of you are probably going to hate me for mentioning this, but an electronic dance version of this song was released recently.  
I like it, but that's me, since I like remakes of any song in any style(even if it's electronic dance done classical, which only happened once kinda).
I thought it was funny that I heard that version of the song, then see this topic.