I know of a song...

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  1. Challenger78 Valued Senior Member

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    It goes like this...

    There is a house in New Orleans....

    Has anyone else got that song stuck in their head now ?
     
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  5. Challenger78 Valued Senior Member

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    that they call the rising sun...

    Damn. It's a good song though ? Or is just me who likes it ?
     
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  7. draqon Banned Banned

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    the song is indeed good.
     
  8. Challenger78 Valued Senior Member

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    and it's been, the ruin of many a poor boy..

    I didn't really like the Pink floyd version, but it was ok
     
  9. Gondolin Hell hath no fury like squid Registered Senior Member

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    I know a song..... and it ain't very long. Doo dalittle doo dalittle, now it's all gone.

    My grandfather says that when someone says "I know a song". The post title just reminded me of that.
     
  10. Deathfromabove Hopeless and Useless Registered Senior Member

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    Yeah it's a classic especially The Animals version. First heard it in Casino and liked it from there out.
     
  11. Challenger78 Valued Senior Member

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    and god, I know I'm one

    It was listed as 122 on the Rolling stones greatest songs of all time..
     
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  12. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    I enjoyed that song and this one by them as well. It was done about the same time.

    http://youtube.com/watch?v=4aNuyNk8nro&feature=related

    I see my red door and I want it painted black
    No colors anymore I want them to turn black
    I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
    I have to turn my head until my darkness goes

    I see a line of cars and they're all painted black
    With flowers and my love both never to come back
    I see people turn their heads and quickly look away
    Like a new born baby it just happens ev'ry day

    I look inside myself and see my heart is black
    I see my red door and it has been painted black
    Maybe then I'll fade away and not have to face the facts
    It's not easy facin' up when your whole world is black

    No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue
    I could not foresee this thing happening to you
    [Paint It Black lyrics on http://www.metrolyrics.com]


    If I look hard enough into the settin' sun
    My love will laugh with me before the mornin' comes

    I see my red door and I want it painted black
    No colors anymore I want them to turn black
    I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
    I have to turn my head until my darkness goes

    Hmm, hmm, hmm,...

    I wanna see it painted, painted black
    Black as night, black as coal
    I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky
    I wanna see it painted, painted, painted, painted black
    Yeah!
     
  13. Challenger78 Valued Senior Member

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    My mother was a tailor...Sowed my new blue jeans..

    I've been wondering what that song was called before. (and why it's often used for the vietnam war...)
     
  14. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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  15. Challenger78 Valued Senior Member

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    my father, was a gambling man..Down in new orleans.. *It hurts..now...


    I can just imagine you in that concert cosmic..
     
  16. cosmictraveler Be kind to yourself always. Valued Senior Member

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    There were many veterns going to these types of concerts.
     
  17. Fraggle Rocker Staff Member

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    This was a big song in the folk music crowd in the 1950s and 1960s and we all learned to perform it. Many of the top artists in America had already recorded it and many others, both American and foreign, continued to do so. Abstracted from Wikipedia:

    "The House of the Rising Sun" is a folk song from the United States. Also called "House of the Rising Sun" or occasionally "Rising Sun Blues," it tells of a life gone wrong in New Orleans. Depending on the version, the song may be sung from the perspective of a woman or a man. Two of the best-known renditions are by early Baby Boomer folksinger Joan Baez in 1959-60 and by the British Invasion rock group The Animals in 1964, which was a number one hit in both the US and UK.

    The oldest known surviving recording was made in 1933 by versatile Smoky Mountain artists Clarence "Tom" Ashley and Gwen Foster. Ashley said he had learned it from his grandfather, Enoch Ashley. The Callahan Brothers recorded the song in 1934. Country music legend Roy Acuff, who recorded the song commercially in 1938, may have learned the song from Ashley, with whom he sometimes performed. In 1948 blues legend Lead Belly (or Leadbelly) recorded a version called "In New Orleans" in the sessions that later became the album "Lead Belly's Last Sessions." American folk music scholar and performer Woody Guthrie recorded a version in 1951. In 1957 Glenn Yarbrough, soon to be the lead singer for the Limeliters, recorded the song for Elektra Records. In 1962 Bob Dylan released the song on his debut album "Bob Dylan."

    (Texas Alexander's "The Risin' Sun," which was recorded in 1928, has been erroneously mentioned as the first recording. It is a completely different song.)
     

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