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Posted: 16 January 2021 at 5:55pm

Yes, all I knew was the US edit; as a
young kid it was a great 3 minute
record. A year or so later I rifled
through my cousin's albums and noticed
some Mickie Most various artists LP
with containing the "original uncut
version" of "Rising Sun" - My mind was
totally blown as it it was the first
time I had ever heard it!

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Posted: 16 January 2021 at 7:56pm

Regarding the "LP version" of House Of The Rising Sun, the
parent LP in the US for this song was titled "The Animals"
and on that LP the song runs (3:00) just like the 45 so
there is no 45 or LP designation. As Aaron has pointed
out, the longer version first appeared on the Animals
Greatest Hits vinyl LP and in my opinion should not be
considered an LP version. That information is included in
the database under the song title description.

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Posted: 17 January 2021 at 12:19pm

Thanks, Pat.

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Posted: 17 January 2021 at 5:50pm

Pat is correct about The Animals being the U.S. parent LP, and I bring this up merely as a point of clarification: our late friend Gary Mack pointed out in an unrelated 2010 thread that the first U.S. appearance of the unedited "House Of The Rising Sun" came five months prior to its inclusion on MGM's 1966 The Best Of The Animals LP (E/SE-4324):

Gary Mack wrote:

Actually, the full version appeared months earlier (late 1965) on an MGM VA collection: E/SE-4306 - Mickie Most Presents British Go-Go.

This is the same LP Andy was referring to above, with its "original uncut version" wording. A couple of commenters on the Mickie Most album's discogs listing claim that the record actually plays the 3:00 single version, but I have a copy of the mono edition and can verify that it does play the full 4:29 version, as stated on the album cover and the record label.

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Posted: 17 January 2021 at 6:07pm

Excellent info, John! Thanks!

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Posted: 22 January 2021 at 11:36am

Yah Shure wrote:

Pat is correct about The
Animals being the U.S. parent LP, and I bring this
up merely as a point of clarification: our late friend
Gary Mack pointed out in an unrelated 2010 thread that
the first U.S. appearance of the unedited "House Of The
Rising Sun" came five months prior to its inclusion on
MGM's 1966 The Best Of The Animals LP (E/SE-
4324):

Gary Mack wrote:

Actually, the full version appeared
months earlier (late 1965) on an MGM VA collection:
E/SE-4306 - Mickie Most Presents British Go-Go.

This is the same LP Andy was referring to above, with
its "original uncut version" wording. A couple of
commenters on the Mickie Most album's discogs listing
claim that the record actually plays the 3:00 single
version, but I have a copy of the mono edition and can
verify that it does play the full 4:29 version, as
stated on the album cover and the record label.

Note too, very soon after the MGM version of Mickie Most
Presents British Go-Go, the LP was reissued on MGM's
Metro Budget Label, as M/MS 577 released in 1966. The
Metro LP is much more common than the MGM LP of same.

I turn up the good and turn down the bad!

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Posted: 20 hours 36 minutes ago at 7:14pm

I was thinking about posting editing instructions to recreate the 45 from the full performance, but I don't think I can adequately describe how to do so without letting you hear the final product. If you followed any kind of instructions accurately and listened to the edits, you would think that you're clearly doing something wrong. It didn't bother the engineer at MGM, though.

In the 45 version, there are edits at 1:43 (in between beats, goes into keyboard solo), 1:55 (careens from keyboard solo into vocals in next verse), 2:29 (at end of word "well"; vocals work well but the edit keeps an extra beat of the song and throws off the rest of the instrumentation - it's just like the Jonathan and Darlene Edwards records!), and an early fade.

From the point of view of someone who likes to make edits as seamless as possible, it's *AMAZING*.

Also, the full unedited performance seems to have been the UK 45 version, which was released well before the LPs listed above.

The US got the severely edited version on both the 45 and LP, and only got the unedited performance well after the song was a hit.

Edited by crapfromthepast - 7 hours 33 minutes ago at 8:17am

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