692 The Animals “The House of the Rising Sun” 1964

“Out of all the groups swept along with the 1964 British invasion, the Animals were the most deeply bluesy. Eric Burdon, born on May 11, 1941, in the industrial/mining town of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in northeast England, combined his ravaged ‘wish-I-was-black’ vocals with the surging organ of fellow Newcastle native [Alan] Price to define the sound of the group…Burdon recalls with undisguised bitterness that the arrangement to House was a group effort, but that when it came time to issue the record, he was told there would be room for only one name for the arrangers’ credit, and he foolishly agreed to let it be Alan Price’s. This meant that…Price received all the royalties from the record’s sales” (Steve Sullivan, Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings, 2013). 

The Animals “The House of the Rising Sun”