Any tourists there these days ? Darn .. not only saving the pennies, but figuring on enduring TSA torture makes the thought of flying these days SO frustrating. Peaceful, Happy Thanksgiving to you.. ;)
Posted on 11/22/2010 5:46:46 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron
Like many classic folk ballads, the authorship of “The House of the Rising Sun” is unknown. Some musicologists believe it is based on the tradition of broadside ballads such as the “Unfortunate Rake” of the 18th century which were taken to America by early settlers. Many of these had the theme of “if only” and after a period of evolution, they emerge as American songs like “Streets of Laredo”.
Alan Price of The Animals has claimed that the song was originally a sixteenth-century English folk song about a Soho brothel, and that English emigrants took the song to America where it was adapted to its later New Orleans setting.[1]
The oldest known existing recording is by Appalachian artists Clarence Ashley and Gwen Foster and was made in 1933. Ashley said he had learned it from his grandfather, Enoch Ashley. Alger “Texas” Alexander’s “The Risin’ Sun,” recorded in 1928, is sometimes mentioned as the first recording, but is a completely different song.
The song might have been lost to obscurity had it not been collected by folklorist Alan Lomax, who, along with his father, was a curator of the Archive of American Folk Song for the Library of Congress. On an expedition with his wife to eastern Kentucky Lomax set up his recording equipment in Middlesborough, Kentucky in the house of a singer and activist called Tilman Cadle. On September 15, 1937 he recorded a performance by Georgia Turner, the 16 year-old daughter of a local miner. He called it “The Risin’ Sun Blues.” Lomax later recorded a different version sung by Bert Martin and a third sung by Daw Henson, both eastern Kentucky singers. In his 1941 songbook Our Singing Country, Lomax credits the lyrics to Turner, with reference to Martin’s version. According to his later writing, the melody bears similarities to the traditional English ballad “Matty Groves
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Rising_Sun
Something for us “older folk.”
Needles and Pinza
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2RqRxjjlsI&feature=related
Freebird, I love that song.
Careful. The “Wikipedia Poe-Leese” here at FR might cite you.
Get over what butthead? My Southern heritage? My ancestry? My ancestors? I think not you damn yankee long lived liberal troll.
This thread just wouldn’t be right w/o some of The Temptations:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDakhsaPTE0
The Way You Do The Things You Do
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbAaLdLguLo&feature=related
My Girl
central_va - Start @ the beginning of this thread for a trip down memory lane:)
Nice finds!
Stevie Ray Vaughn ‘Pride and Joy’
There was a radio station around here that used to play this one every once in a while. Not a particularly big hit for them, but I really liked it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejg-22i4VYQ
Four Tops - When she was my girl
Any tourists there these days ? Darn .. not only saving the pennies, but figuring on enduring TSA torture makes the thought of flying these days SO frustrating. Peaceful, Happy Thanksgiving to you.. ;)
Eagles - The Last Resort
Interesting side story, the Eagles were formed as a back up band for Linda Ronstadt, they played and got along so well together they went out and formed their own band, Joe Walsh, Glen Fry, and Don Henley...the rest is history.
Okay!
Me, I'm stayin alive....home!
Is that you in the red?
I taught John everything he knows about dancing!
ok Sunshine, the Tina song you recommended along with that "Mommy" song really got me to dancing and I wanted to share the experience. . . so get on your dancin shoes and check out this version of “You Better Be Good To Me”, complete with Tina's "girl power" back up dancers.
After listening and dancing to this you feel like breaking a plate over some guy's head. Enjoy!
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