Vocal Coach reacts to The Animals - House Of The Rising Sun (Eric Burdon) 

Erics unwavering burning stare is what "makes" this video,,he demands the attention,,[not putting him down BTW]

it does not compute in my tiny brain that the face i am looking at is making those sounds. it's wild

Eric looks so young but his voice is so powerful, this is without question one of the greatest vocal performances ever...and the musicians back him up perfectly ...House of the Rising Sun is such an old song, no one's even sure how old or who composed it. The earliest American published version of the lyrics is by Robert Winslow Gordon in 1925. Whoever wrote it and whoever performs it, Eric's version makes it Timeless !

I agree his voice is so powerful

He sounded so much older.

and make you think it was YOUR IDEA!

That's hilarious lol 🤣🤣🤣

and at the end he gives you your tip for the inconvenience caused. xd

Burton tells you can’t escape.

British

That’s fucking insane dude went from success to even double the successx

Yeah, he gives dinamism and power variations of intensity to this great one loop song.

He took all the royalties for this song.

Alannis a beast...he created the sound of the 60s...although greatly underrated!

Yeah and that old electric Hammond Organ sound is super hard for electronic synthesizers to reproduce today. It's very complex with multiple harmonics. When Weird Al wanted to do a Doors parody he had to employ a real resorted organ to get the 70's sound right.

@@dunbar9finger Today, musicians are everything but…I sound like an old person, but music stopped during the 90s (it started with Milli Vanilli) with studio created music from people with no talent. I never heard Weird Al’s “Doors”…

Funny thing is that the Stones were more middle class kids and the Beatles were actually the working class kids.

@@SkorpioMusic kindof in brian n keiths case but less so keith n deff less so ronnie. was also the 'working class' industrial legacy of a Liverpool, north versus the cultural legacy of 'Swingin London' n the cultural crossover tween the crims, the chelsea poshos n the cross fertilisation of the old aristos from the southern swamps n suburbs of essex kent n the clubs scenes of the 2 cities. merseybeat rising up against the stronghold of london.possibly of mild interest, both london and liverpool were big river town with historic ports. thus blues n rock n roll swept from across the atlantic.

well they were geordies eric walker frm walker, st anthonys or some where closer to wards the tyne ports. newcastle. not liverpool or london. v. different culture. hardly any black people in newcastle back then. lpool had toxteth, london had brixton. newcastle had the whisky a go go club and eric burdon! 😄 they had to mend and make do. people at the time said eric used to sing like an apoplectic beetroot. 🤗

yeah mine too -they had a hard edge to their sound. the original boom boom is just the best. and it's my life was my theme song to upset my parents !

Lip syncing was very common during these performances with all artist. Note the guitar and bass are not even plugged in to anything. Remote pickups didn’t even start until the mid 80’s.

They only had enough money for one cut

No its only a fucking opion

I believe it's said that it was after an agreement of several British bands, they would help him instead of trying to beat him, as they knew they could be in trouble from his raw talent. :)

then Jimi Hendrix kind of steal Eric Burdon's wife..

@@martinblackheart8824 Angie King. She left Burdon for Hendrix but I've never heard that Hendrix "stole" her. Her decision.

@@martinblackheart8824 It was Chaz's wife he "stole."

Well.. it never was. Dylan didn’t write it.

@@OskarSvan Yes, but his version became the most famous.

Personally I think "bring it on home" is my favourite

Sky Pilot is so often misunderstood--note the number of videos made which feature aircraft--folks think it's about pilots, and never listen to the rest of the lyrics. But it is a spectacular song.

I put their Essentials from Apple and I don’t really like Monterey/San Nights. He was a fantastic singer, you forgot “Don’t bring me down, and Bring it on home to me”.

I missed the early Animals, loved the hippy Animals, you know, Sky Pilot, San Francisco Nights, Spill the Wine. ... "House," has to be the ultimate Animals song. That singer? Damn! The voice with the thousand yard stare.

Yes, the guitars don't appear to be plugged in.

They performed this and Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood in the same session and in the same outfits.

Lip synching the studio recording when appearing on TV was pretty common in those days.

@@tomhiggins875 Nothing is plugged in! And the drummer does play really softly!

Check out the cover from Toto

I've heard Dylan's version. I can't stand it. The Animal's is by far the best version I have heard.

Dylan copped his arrangement from Dave Van Ronk, who never got appropriate credit for it. Then of course, Burdon and co. copied that arrangement and punched it up. I once went down the rabbit hole, and I think I found 26 different versions of it on RU-vid.

Other way around ,maybe .

Also doesn't look like the keyboard is even plugged in, and I doubt wireless. That, along with his position change, gives me suspicion that at least the audio of the organ, if not the whole bit, isn't live. He'd have had a hard time continuing to play while being moved, yet the organ doesn't stop, or even slip up a little, in the audio.

Excellent point!

Song was made in the recording studio in one take between gigs to save money. However this is from a movie film made after the record was a big hit. This clip was filmed in 1964 or 65 as part of a UK colour film called Pop Gear for paying theatre release. This explains the early high quality color images we luckily have for this mimed from the record performance and also a few other top UK only music artists from when the film was made. RU-vid has quite a few segments from this UK movie Pop Gear with the US contribution being to re title it Go Go Mania and add a few intro Go Go dancer segments to satisfy the US audience. A RU-vid search for Pop Gear Go Go Mania shows lots of surviving segments : ru-vid.com?search_query=pop+gear+go+go+mania The intro by TCM explains the background of the film. While some of these segments were likely to be shown on US Colour TV much later , the source would originally be this high quality film. Rising Sun is the standout, but the Honeycombs with Have I the Right is a landmark too, In 1964 images not recorded on film would be much lower quality videotape, not the notable quality images used here. Especially with the inferior US pioneering NTSC standards often called Never The Same Colour. So lucky the film was made instead of relying on low standard video tape recordings that were usually taped over anyway to save tape cost money or made by filming a TV screen with poor quality results. I would be amazed to see any video recording from 1964 up to this standard of image quality. A better sound source can easily replace or lesser quality film track early source in RU-vid postings these days. These films mainly used mimed performances as the vast majority of theatre audiences wanted to hear the music performance as they knew it from the records. Hope this helps people who have the colorized and vidoetape theories that usually pop up.

Pretty sure he's smiling because there's his guitar is unplugged and he can't take it seriously.

A tough mining town, Dockers, Pitmen, pretty much a mirror of those whose music they echoed so quite natural really

Exactly,… studio back track,… lip sync,…the standard that continued right through the 1970’s….with pop groups. Still great….✌️✌️

Although this is not from TV but a movie. Song was made in the recording studio in one take between gig to save money. However this is from a movie film made after the record was a big hit. This clip was filmed in 1964 or 65 as part of a UK colour film called Pop Gear for paying theatre release. This explains the early high quality color images we luckily have for this mimed from the record performance and also a few other top UK only music artists from when the film was made. RU-vid has quite a few segments from this UK movie Pop Gear with the US contribution being to re title it Go Go Mania and add a few intro Go Go dancer segments to satisfy the US audience. A RU-vid search for Pop Gear Go Go Mania shows lots of surviving segments : ru-vid.com?search_query=pop+gear+go+go+mania The intro by TCM explains the background of the film. While some of these segments were likely to be shown on US Colour TV much later , the source would originally be this high quality film. Rising Sun is the standout, but the Honeycombs with Have I the Right is a landmark too, In 1964 images not recorded on film would be much lower quality videotape, not the notable quality images used here. Especially with the inferior US pioneering NTSC standards often called Never The Same Colour. So lucky the film was made instead of relying on low standard video tape recordings that were usually taped over anyway to save tape cost money or made by filming a TV screen with poor quality results. I would be amazed to see any video recording from 1964 up to this standard of image quality. A better sound source can easily replace or lesser quality film track early source in RU-vid postings these days. These films mainly used mimed performances as the vast majority of theatre audiences wanted to hear the music performance as they knew it from the records. Hope this helps people who have the colorized and vidoetape theories that usually pop up.

Nothing changed - TV is 99% lipsync

Agreed.

The problem was lack of strong writing from within the group. This was the time when the Beatles changed the pop music world by being a self contained band writing and performing their own music. Many of the Animals hits were written by the “tin pan alley” writers like Goffin and King, Mann and Weil et al. The Animals were excellent musicians and arrangers and Burdon is simply one of the greatest singers. They did have that rare quality of making songs written by others, their own.

@@JohnLnyc Them and Joe Cocker.

@@JohnLnyc Most of the Bangles hits were written by people outside the band. They said "why would we reject a great song because we didn't write it?"

@@headlibrarian1996The music business especially pop changed when groups who wrote and performed their own songs emerged. The Beatles led the way the Stones followed. Most all the Animals hits were written by “tin pan alley” writers who were disappearing. I can’t think of many successful groups who were not writing their hit songs by the late sixties. No one is saying an artist can’t cover other’s material…Joe Cocker is a good (but rare example). The Bangles wrote some good songs. Their hits were written by others…a rarity.

I was about to comment the displugged guitars. Also I believe they didn't have a microphone in 1964 which could capture his voice within such distance

As a part time guitar player that was the first thing i looked for

Lmao 🤣

wireless electric guitar tech has been around since the mid 70's, not sure what year the Animals recorded this tbh, and mic technology hasn't changed much at all over the years. all that aside, they're definitely not plugged in to even a wireless set up. Most music back then was recorded in live one takes, which where dubbed over videos, or on reel to reel's and shit like that anyway, so most performances where as good as live anyway.

@@syzygy2464 this song was released in 1964.

Need lots of thumbs up for that one.

that line is in my profile,its always meant so much to me

True, but I think (and might be wrong) she could just be referring to the audio recording itself, if it has been done "live" in 1 take with all members or several takes/tracks.. Edit: One of my favorite songs from them is probably When I Was Young.

@@SmeagolTheGreat I agree with you both. Moreover, it is obvious that he is lip syncing the song.

@@SmeagolTheGreat Possible, a lot of bands did that back in the day. Oooh Not familiar with that song, have to check it out!

I like the songs you named, but the one that hit me hardest was Sky Pilot.

Song was made in the recording studio in one take between gig to save money. However this is from a movie film made after the record was a big hit. This clip was filmed in 1964 or 65 as part of a UK colour film called Pop Gear for paying theatre release. This explains the early high quality color images we luckily have for this mimed from the record performance and also a few other top UK only music artists from when the film was made. RU-vid has quite a few segments from this UK movie Pop Gear with the US contribution being to re title it Go Go Mania and add a few intro Go Go dancer segments to satisfy the US audience. A RU-vid search for Pop Gear Go Go Mania shows lots of surviving segments : ru-vid.com?search_query=pop+gear+go+go+mania The intro by TCM explains the background of the film. While some of these segments were likely to be shown on US Colour TV much later , the source would originally be this high quality film. Rising Sun is the standout, but the Honeycombs with Have I the Right is a landmark too, In 1964 images not recorded on film would be much lower quality videotape, not the notable quality images used here. Especially with the inferior US pioneering NTSC standards often called Never The Same Colour. So lucky the film was made instead of relying on low standard video tape recordings that were usually taped over anyway to save tape cost money or made by filming a TV screen with poor quality results. I would be amazed to see any video recording from 1964 up to this standard of image quality. A better sound source can easily replace or lesser quality film track early source in RU-vid postings these days. These films mainly used mimed performances as the vast majority of theatre audiences wanted to hear the music performance as they knew it from the records. Hope this helps people who have the colorized and vidoetape theories that usually pop up.

By far the best organ solo in pop while Burden growls along with the best of them.

The brainwashing is deep, white men have long been denied their soul, intercepted early in academia we've been pushed guilt and shame from the off, dissuaded from becoming leaders, forced to sit still, look forward, don't daydream, taught that others are bigger better and more colourful, that we lack the exotic if left to our own, that our food is bland and that we only shine by channeling through outside culture, it's of course to keep us down and governable, nice to see some finally kicking back and revealing the historic lies and deliberate steering of our peoples (both black and white)