THE ANIMALS - HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN (Ed Sullivan show, IN COLOUR)

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THE ANIMALS - HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN (Ed Sullivan show, IN COLOUR)

On this date in 1964, THE ANIMALS started a three week run at No.1 on the US singles chart with HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN (Sep 5th 1964)

The video here is The Animals performing the song on the Ed Sullivan show in 1964.

I've upscaled and colourised the original black and white film.

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"Everyone knows the first major event of The British Invasion was the historic February 9, 1964 Ed Sullivan show where The Beatles played an opening and closing set of their hits," wrote MUNROW'S RETRO.

"But who remembers the second? It was, of course, the first major international #1 hit single by a British band other than The Beatles: The Animals. The song was "The House Of The Rising Sun," based on an old American folk song itself traced to several similar ballads sung in 16th and 17th Century England where "Rising Sun" was used as the name of a house of prostitution."

In some versions the hapless singer is a girl trapped forever in the oldest profession, and in others a man who contracts a venereal disease at a bawdy house and lies dying, bewailing the fact that had he known what was wrong with him in time he would have treated himself with mercury.

As the song progressed through the 20th Century it generally indicates a man or woman hopelessly addicted to their respective lifestyles revolving around a New Orleans brothel called The Rising Sun.

In The Animals' version the verses are supposedly changed to a tale about a man whose father was a gambler and drunkard, the "house" now presumably a gambling house.

Still, the lyrics are general enough and make no direct mention to a gambling house, only to say that the man is a gambler.

Gamblers were often known to frequent houses of prostitution, some which also were gambling casinos, which gives us a man hopelessly in love with a prostitute and forever ensnared by gambling and alcohol addictions as well.