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House Of The Rising Sun

by: Josh White and his Guitar

Keynote Recordings (K-542 B)

Publication date: 1942

Topics: 78rpm, Blues, Folk

Contributor: Internet Archive

Language: English

Performer: Josh White and his Guitar

Digitized from a shellac record, at 78 revolutions per minute. Four stylii were used to transfer this record.They are 3.8 mil truncated conical, 2.3 mil truncated conical, 2.8 mil truncated conical, 3.3 mil truncated conical. These were recorded flat and then also equalized with Turnover: 400.0, Rolloff: -18.0.

The preferred version suggested by an audio engineer at George Blood, L.P. is the equalized version recorded with the 3.3 mil truncated conical stylus, and has been copied to have the more friendly filename.

Matrix number: KJW11
Catalog number: K-542 B

Other IDs from the record include: K-125-4; (KJW 11)

Notes

The recording on the other side of this disc: Evil Hearted Man

Addeddate: 2017-02-26 22:20:48

Boxid: IA1562119

Ccnum: asr

Closed captioning: yes

Collection-catalog-number: GBIA0001628B

External-identifier: urn:matrix_no:KJW11

External_metadata_update: 2019-04-09T14:35:35Z

Genre: Blues
folk
blues

Identifier: 78_house-of-the-rising-sun_josh-white-and-his-guitar_gbia0001628b

Location: USA

Restored: True

Run time: 00:03:09

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Reviewer: kaku lowG - - January 2, 2024
Subject: House Of The Rising Sun phone ringtone

The guitar version of House Of The Rising Sun is truly a masterpiece, my friend. I really like this music. I liked it so much that I edited it into a phone ringtone and downloaded it from https://sonneriefr.com/ It's great that I've heard and used you this wonderful ringtone.

Reviewer: brewster - - May 7, 2020
Subject: House of the Rising Sun lyrics from the woman's point of view!

The restored version by Jessica Thompson makes it easy to hear. Different from The Animals' version, which is from a "poor boy"'s point of view.

http://web.archive.org/web/20140219153457/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A-4VGfx5lU

and https://web.archive.org/web/20161023020511/http://www.americanbluesscene.com:80/2011/11/a-brief-history-of-house-of-the-rising-sun/

(wish the web wove the wayback into it!)

Reviewer: jt audio - - May 7, 2020
Subject: Restored Version

Would love to track down a better copy of this incredible recording! Lightly restored using iZotope RX7 Advanced.

Reviewer: arc-alison - - April 6, 2017
Subject: House from New Orleans

An early recording of Josh White, musician and civil rights activist. White had a close relationship with the Roosevelt family during FDR's time in the White House. "The House of the Rising Sun" is a New Orleans folk song, with early recordings credited to many artists (https://www.americanbluesscene.com/2011/11/a-brief-history-of-house-of-the-rising-sun/). It was also one of the folk songs collected by Alan Lomax (http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/our-singing-country/our-singing-country%20-%200468.htm). The song was constantly covered, and was made most famous by a 1964 recording by The Animals (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5A-4VGfx5lU). (date source: http://www.78discography.com/Keynote.htm)

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