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"The House of the Rising Sun" is a traditional folk song, sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues". It tells of a life gone wrong in New Orleans; many versions also urge a sibling to avoid the same fate. The most successful commercial version, recorded in 1964 by the British rock group The Animals, was a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart, and also in the United States, Canada and Australia. The song has been described as the "first folk-rock hit".〔〔 ==Origin and early versions== Like many classic folk ballads, the authorship of "The House of the Rising Sun" is uncertain. Musicologists say that it is based on the tradition of broadside ballads, thematically it has some resemblance to the 16th century ballad ''The Unfortunate Rake''. According to Alan Lomax, "Rising Sun" was used as the name for a bawdy house in two traditional English songs, and it was also a name used for English pubs.〔 He further suggested that the melody might be related to a 17th century folk song "Lord Barnard and Little Musgrave", also known as "Matty Groves",〔〔 but a survey by Bertrand Bronson showed no clear relationship between the two songs. Lomax proposed that the location of the house was then relocated from England to New Orleans by white southern performers,〔 however an alternate French origin was speculated by Vance Randolph - the "rising sun" being the decorative use of the sunburst insignia dating to the time of Louis XIV brought over by French immigrants.〔 "House of Rising Sun" was said to have been known by miners in 1905.〔 The oldest known existing recording of the song, under the title of "Rising Sun Blues", is by Appalachian artists Clarence "Tom" Ashley and Gwen Foster, who recorded it for Vocalion Records on September 6, 1933.〔 Ashley said he had learned it from his grandfather, Enoch Ashley. Roy Acuff, an "early-day friend and apprentice" of Ashley, learned it from him and recorded it as "Rising Sun" in November 3, 1938.〔〔 There are several older blues recordings of songs with similar titles but are actually unrelated, for example "Rising Sun Blues" by Ivy Smith (1927), and "The Risin' Sun" by Texas Alexander (1928). The song was among those collected by folklorist Alan Lomax, who, along with his father, was a curator of the Archive of American Folk Song for the Library of Congress. On an expedition with his wife to eastern Kentucky, Lomax set up his recording equipment in Middlesboro, Kentucky, in the house of a singer and activist named Tilman Cadle. In 1937 he recorded a performance by Georgia Turner, the 16-year-old daughter of a local miner. He called it ''The Rising Sun Blues''.〔 Lomax later recorded a different version sung by Bert Martin and a third sung by Daw Henson, both eastern Kentucky singers. In his 1941 songbook ''Our Singing Country'', Lomax credits the lyrics to Turner,〔 with reference to Martin's version. In 1941, Woody Guthrie recorded a version. A recording made in 1947 by Josh White, who is also credited with having written new words and music that have subsequently been popularized in the versions made by many other later artists, was released by Mercury Records in 1950. Josh White learnt the song from a "white hillbilly singer", who might have been Ashley, in North Carolina in 1923-1924.〔 Lead Belly recorded two versions of the song in February 1944 and in October 1948, called "In New Orleans" and "The House of the Rising Sun" respectively; the latter was recorded in sessions that later became the album ''Lead Belly's Last Sessions'' (1994, Smithsonian Folkways). In 1957 Glenn Yarbrough recorded the song for Elektra Records. The song is also credited to Ronnie Gilbert on one of The Weavers albums released in the late 1940s or early 1950s. Pete Seeger released a version on Folkways Records in 1958, which was re-released by Smithsonian Folkways in 2009.〔 Frankie Laine recorded the song then titled "New Orleans" on his 1959 album ''Balladeer''. Actor and comedian Andy Griffith recorded the song on his 1959 album ''Andy Griffith Shouts the Blues and Old Timey Songs''. Joan Baez recorded it in 1960 on her debut album; she frequently performed the song in concert throughout her career. In 1960 Miriam Makeba recorded the song on her eponymous RCA album. Released in October 1964, Johnny Hallyday's version ''Le pénitencier'' made it to the French Billboard Top 10, and he included the song in his 2014 USA tour.〔Le Pénitencier — Wikipédia〕 In late 1961, Bob Dylan recorded the song for his debut album, released in March 1962. That release had no songwriting credit, but the liner notes indicate that Dylan learned this version of the song from Dave Van Ronk. In an interview on the documentary ''No Direction Home'', Van Ronk said that he was intending to record the song, and that Dylan copied his version. He recorded it soon thereafter on ''Just Dave Van Ronk''. Dave Van Ronk personally taught singer-songwriter Guthrie Thomas the version he also taught Bob Dylan 16 years earlier in Greenwich Village in New York City, and Van Ronk is whom Thomas credits as the man that taught him the song when Van Ronk went backstage at a concert Thomas was performing in New York City at "The Other End," a café-dinner house in New York in the West End. Thomas has never released his commercial version of the song publically but does perform the Van Ronk version when touring and plays the song with a 12-string guitar following in the footsteps of Huddie "Lead Belly" Ledbetter. Nina Simone recorded her first version on ''Nina at the Village Gate'' in 1962. Later versions include the 1965 recording in Columbia by The Speakers in Spanish called ''La casa del sol naciente'', which was also the title of their second album. They earned a silver record (for sales of over 15,000 copies). The Chambers Brothers recorded a version on ''Feelin' The Blues'', released on Vault records. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The House of the Rising Sun」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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