RISING SUN BLUES - ASHLEY and FOSTER (1933) on Vocalion 78RPM (original House Of The Rising Sun) скачать в хорошем качестве

RISING SUN BLUES - ASHLEY and FOSTER (1933) on Vocalion 78RPM (original House Of The Rising Sun)

RISING SUN BLUES - ASHLEY and FOSTER (1933) on Vocalion 78RPM (original House Of The Rising Sun) The very first recorded version of the popular song, House Of The Rising Sun, appears on this, the second of six records Tom Clarence Ashley & Gwen Foster recorded for the Vocalion label in the 1930s. The duo recorded the song in October, 1933, known then as Rising Sun Blues; a traditional folk song, handed down from unknown authorship much earlier than it first having been recorded. Ashley was known to inform that he had learned the song from his grandfather, Enoch Ashley, who died in 1923. The earliest published account of the song was in 1925 where a portion of the lyrics appeared in a printed column written by Robert Winslow Gordon. Gordon ran the Archive of American Folk Song for the Library of Congress. His featured column in Adventure Magazine was titled Old Songs That Men Have Sung. In the 1925 magazine issue, Gordon included the words that were reportedly given to him by William F. Borroughs. Borroughs had transcribed the lyrics from the singing of a southerner. The printed title of the song was The Rising Sun Dance Hall, and a portion of the song’s lyrics are recognizable. There is much varied speculation and interpretation about the song’s true meaning and definitive places referenced in the song; a hopeful task to undertake of a song that may have evolved from European origin of the seventeenth century. Many believe the song, as it existed in the early 1900s, was a story of a man suffering from disease he had acquired at a brothel in New Orleans. New Orleans, at the time, had a defined 'red-light district', known as Storyville, which began operating legally in 1898. In that era, any brothel may have been referred to as a house of the rising sun; a common and discrete reference for a tavern or place that one could seek pleasures all night long until the rising of the sun. There are few known examples of buildings in New Orleans that might have been referred to as, or named, The Rising Sun other than The Rising Sun Hotel which was located in the French Quarter at 535 Conti Street and burned to the ground in 1822. In 2005, effort to prove the association with the address was attempted through an archaeological investigation undertaken in partnership by the University of Chicago, Earth Search Inc. and the Historic New Orleans Collection. Among physical artifacts of their excavations, their investigative findings included an 1821 advertisement in the Louisiana Gazette for a 'Rising Sun Hotel' on Conti Street. The ad claimed that the new Rising Sun Hotel would maintain the best entertainment and stated ‘Gentlemen may here relay upon finding attentive servants.’ A legal document the investigation uncovered was the 1796 title transfer when the property was purchased by Madame Margaret Clark Chabot. The transfer document noted that Chabot was already owning the materials needed to run a boarding house, including multiple walnut tables, 5 dozen chairs, and 25 new mattresses. Another interpretation of the song’s reference suggests that House of The Rising Sun was a term used as a metaphor to describe the old Parish Prison of New Orleans that featured an engraved rising sun motif at the prison’s entrance to the women’s wing of the prison, demolished in 1895. Other than opinion, there is really nothing to define any specific location introduced by the story of the song, especially given that lyrics were, and are, often liberties of storytelling rather than accurate aural history. In the early 1940s, Josh White was credited to rewriting the lyrics for a Decca release sung by Libby Holman, words that remain essentially the ones still known and used. Soon after, Josh recorded the song himself. In 1944, the iconic blues artist, Leadbelly recorded two versions of the song, firstly titled, In New Orleans. Ultimately, the most regarded and known version of the song is a reworked rendition released in 1964 by The Animals. The song became a #1 hit on both sides of the Atlantic. The song has been covered by hundreds, including; The Beatles, Nina Simone, Woody Guthrie, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Tangerine Dream, The Supremes, Tracy Chapman, Dolly Parton, Roberta Joan Anderson, Sinead O’Conner, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Frijid Pink, Toto and Muse. Lyrics There are a house in New Orleans They call The Rising Sun Where many poor boy to destruction has gone And me, oh Lord, for one Just fill a glass up to the brim Let the drinks go merrily around We’ll drink to the life of a rounder, poor boy Who goes from town to town All in this world does a rounder want Is a suitcase and a trunk The only time he’s satisfied Is when he’s on a drunk Now boys don’t believe what a young girl tells you Let her eyes be blue or brown Unless she’s on some scaffold high Saying boys I can’t come down I’m going back to New Orleans For my race is almost run To spend the rest of my wicked life Beneath The Rising Sun