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In a word...outstanding!!!! I'd never seen that before. What a talent.
This is my favorite version.
Dude, why do you do that? Who doesn't know where Davis got his obsession with size/speed.....come on man.
In a word...outstanding!!!! I'd never seen that before. What a talent.
This is my favorite version.
Probably the person that isn't answering it
... that's incredible
Are you ever going to figure this out? Longggggggggggggg time football fan...ok?
Davis once went to a baseball game and saw the size/speed there, I think it was a Dodgers game or maybe a Giants game.
Why you constantly challenge me...??????? Why not get a pen/pad and learn something...ok?
Yep. I looked up that version when you mentioned it a few posts back. I like it better than the one the Animals did. In fact, I really don't care for their version, so it took me years to like the song at all. It probably wasn't until I heard dulcimer covers of it that I gave it another chance.
An example of dulcimer cover:
it was the yankees
I like everyone else just assumed that was an Animals song when it first came out. , I thought that for decades. Then around 94 or so I buy this Lead Belly CD at a yard sale. So there I am listening to it when he starts singing about....there is a house in New Orleans....huh? I knew he 'd died in 1949 so ....huh???? Yep, I preceded to find out what was going on.
There is also a real primitive cover by a Bessie Turner from around 1937.
I do like the Animals version.
I don't think so. I'm pretty sure it was the Dodgers.
I'm just guessing about this but he probably saw Willie Davis running. Davis was considered the fastest player in the majors back in his day.
nina simone gave a very different twist of it as well... much more accelerated and just different. im not a particular fan but its always interesting to hear a different take on a song
I like the power the song brings. For something sung by a white band in the 60s, that really had some soul in it. But I also feel like the loud parts were misplaced. Also, I don't really think the lyrics fits the instruments the band used. I think it's much more of a piano gospel than a guitar rock/ballad. The Jennings one was country, but I also think that it did a better job at catching the mood of the song. Like it's a cowboy who's about to do something major and he's lamenting over his life.
I can just feel the struggle in the Platters one. I don't sense that at all in the Animals version. Just seems like a song.
looks like we were both right on this one
http://www.raiders.com/news/article-...e-308901ed7705
Yeah, not a big fan, either. Simone had a number of odd covers. Like her version of Here Comes the Sun:
I like that cover, though. Different, both from the Beatles version and from the music I normally associate with Simone. But still nice.
I 'm a huge Nina Simone fan, she's great!
That was cool, loved it! I don't recall ever hearing her do that before which shocks the out of me.
i always like the animals version, but i grew up a rockaholic so it sat well with me. i definitely can see how their style doesn't actually reflect on the origins or intention of the song, but a lot of cover/remakes have that unfortunate quality. i was particularly fond of their live version, the power of the vocals are incredible when they do get loud, and the gritty voice of something that young always impressed me
at 2:32
Funny thing is I have no idea where I got that from.
i used to have a lot of raiders periodicals around the house that i would read in my boredom when i was younger. for a few years we were even subscribed to the weekly silver and black magazine/newsletter... i dont even know if that exists anymore. there are all sorts of random tidbits of info i remember from those. if i had lived through those times it would probably be a stronger memory
Eric Burdon has talked about how blues "shouter" Big Joe Turner was a big influense on him. And like a lot of those British Bands they knew them blues. But.....really don't see him listening to Clarence Ashley, so how the Animals knew about that tune...???
That Platters cover on a whole other level, yep, you feel the struggle.
Glad someone posted this version just for the records. Doesn't feel right to have a thread about this song without it.
Joan Baez did a version a few years before The Animals did:
I think she did a good job capturing the mood of the song. She sounds desperate and hollow. But there's something about her voice that I just can't get into. Never been a huge fan of hers.
I think what does it for me about the Platters version is the backup vocals. They're just so deep and dark, and they're always there. It's like a band of demons that's chaser the singer and is slowly gaining on her.
I started buying the magazines, watching the games at around 10 or 1959. My first football "hero" was number 28 for the Chicago Bears.....Willie Galimore. He was the first of the great speed/quick/elusive/black backs I'd see. Jim Brown was just a bull, and Gale Sayers wouldn't show up for another few years.
The first stud Raider was running back Clem Daneils a guy the Niners dumped (they used him as a cornerback) Daneils was right there with Abner Haynes, Paul Lowe and Cookie Gilchrist as the best in the old AFL
Hard to beat female vocals in anything haunting which that song is.
Good example.
Getting back to ...The House of the Rising Sun
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Liked it. Another example is Sinnerman, which I won't embed, since we've all heard it. I think you're definitely right that female vocals do a better job at capturing darkness than male vocals. In fact, they might do a better job at capturing emotion period.
I will say, however, that in my book, the king of adding emotion to songs was Ray Charles.
On that same token, a lot of Beatles songs had vocals that failed to convey the emotion of their lyrics, in my opinion.
had never heard this from ray
i saw ray charles at the hollywood bowl years ago, but i was too young to appreciate what i was seeing, and i regret not being more into the concert...
my parents have a bunch of charles albums and i used to listen to em a lot the days where portable cd players were "in"
Yeah, I think that cover is such a different take on the song. It felt more like a tragedy from McKenzie's view than from Rigby's. Ray added a few words, and I think they hit the spot. Dude was a master at ad libbing.
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