From '' エレキ・ギター ベスト４/ Best 4 ''
Label: Dot Records – SJET-298
Format: Vinyl, 7\", 33 ⅓ RPM, EP, Stereo
Country: Japan
Released: Sep 1965
Tracklist
A1 十番街の殺人 (Slaughter On 10th Avenue)
A2 ダイアモンド・ヘッド (Diamond Head)
B1 カレン (Karen)
B2 朝日の当る家 (House Of The Rising Sun)
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The House of the Rising Sun\" is a traditional folk song, sometimes called \"Rising Sun Blues\".
It tells of a life gone wrong in New Orleans; many versions also urge a sibling to avoid the same fate.
The most successful commercial version, recorded in 1964 by the English rock group The Animals, was a number one hit in the United Kingdom, the United States, Sweden, Finland, Canada and Australia.
Origin and early versions
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.
There is also a mention of a house-like pub called the \"Rising Sun\" in the classic \"Black Beauty\" tale, published in 1877, which was set in London, England, and which may or may not have influenced the song's title.
The oldest known existing recording is by Appalachian artists Clarence \"Tom\" Ashley and Gwen Foster, who recorded it for Vocalion Records in 1934.
Ashley said he had learned it from his grandfather, Enoch Ashley.
The song was among those 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 Middlesboro, Kentucky, in the house of a singer and activist named Tilman Cadle.
In 1937 he recorded a performance by Georgia Turner, the 16-year-old daughter of a local miner.
He called it The Rising Sun Blues.
Lomax later recorded a different version sung by Bert Martin and a third sung by Daw Henson, both eastern Kentucky singers.
Roy Acuff, an \"early-day friend and apprentice\" of Ashley, learned it from him and later recorded it as \"Rising Sun\".
In 1941, Woody Guthrie recorded a version.
A recording made in 1947 by Josh White, who is also credited with having written new words and music that have subsequently been popularized in the versions made by many other later artists, was released by Mercury Records in 1950. Lead Belly recorded two versions of the song in February 1944 and in October 1948, called \"In New Orleans\" and \"The House of the Rising Sun\" respectively; the latter was recorded in sessions that later became the album Lead Belly's Last Sessions.
In 1957 Glenn Yarbrough recorded the song for Elektra Records. The song is also credited to Ronnie Gilbert on one of The Weavers albums released in the late 1940s or early 1950s.
Pete Seeger released a version on Folkways Records in 1958, which was re-released by Smithsonian Folkways in 2009.
Frankie Laine recorded the song then titled \"New Orleans\" on his 1959 album Balladeer.
Actor and comedian Andy Griffith recorded the song on his 1959 album Andy Griffith Shouts the Blues and Old Timey Songs.
Joan Baez recorded it in 1960 on her debut album; she frequently performed the song in concert throughout her career.
In 1960 Miriam Makeba recorded the song on her eponymous RCA album.
Released in October in 1964, Johnny Hallyday's version Les portes du pénitencier made it to the French Billboard Top 10, and he included the song in his 2014 USA tour.
In late 1961, Bob Dylan recorded the song for his debut album, released in March 1962.
That release had no songwriting credit, but the liner notes indicate that Dylan learned this version of the song from Dave Van Ronk. In an interview on the documentary No Direction Home, Van Ronk said that he was intending to record the song, and that Dylan copied his version.
He recorded it soon thereafter on Just Dave Van Ronk.
Dave Van Ronk personally taught singer-songwriter Guthrie Thomas, the version he also taught Bob Dylan 16 years earlier in Greenwich Village in New York City and Van Ronk is whom Thomas credits as the man that taught him the song when Van Ronk went backstage at a concert Thomas was performing in New York City at \"The Other End,\" a café-dinner house in New York in the West End. Thomas has never released his commercial version of the song publically but does perform the Van Ronk version when touring and plays the song with a 12 string guitar following in the footsteps of Huddie \"Lead Belly\" Ledbetter.
Nina Simone recorded her first version on Nina at the Village Gate in 1962. Later versions include the 1965 recording in Columbia by The Speakers in Spanish called La casa del sol naciente, which was also the title of their second album.
They earned a silver record.
The Chambers Brothers recorded a version on Feelin' The Blues, released on Vault records.
