Australian singles charts:
House of the Rising Sun entered the Kent charts on 9 March 1970 and peaked at #15. The song was #88 on the Top 100 of 1970.
Album:
The song is on Frijid Pink which entered the Kent album charts on 19 June 1970 and peaked at #24.
Songwriter:
Traditional, arr. by Alan Price
Producer:
Michael Valvano
Record label of Australian release:
London
BONUS TRACK BELOW – 1944 version by Lead Belly
Wikipedia:
The House of the Rising Sun is a traditional folk song that tells of a person’s life gone wrong in the city of New Orleans; many versions also urge a sibling or parents and children to avoid the same fate.
It was recorded many times, by artists including Lead Belly, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Bob Dylan and Nina Simone. The most successful commercial version was recorded in 1964 by British rock group The Animals.
Detroit USA band Frijid Pink recorded a psychedelic version which became an international hit in 1970.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Rising_Sun
Lyrics:
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the rising sun
And it′s been the ruin of many a poor Boy
And God I know I’m one
My mother was a tailor
Sewed my new blue jeans
My father was a gamblin′ man
Down in New Orleans
Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and a trunk
And the only time he’ll be satisfied
Is when he’s on a drunk
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BONUS TRACK
Here’s a 1944 recording of House of the Rising Sun by Lead Belly. It was a rearrangement of a song first recorded by Texas Alexander in 1927.
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