the animals house of the rising sun

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!

Andy

Thanks, Pat.

Excellent info, John! Thanks!

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 - 11 May 2025 at 8:17am

I hadn't heard the US 45 edit until Brian sent me a CD collection of "Singles" back in 2004. I was rather shocked to hear how jarring and horrible the edits are. I believe the Canadian 45 was the long version as well, in fact, the US MGM 45 may have been the only one to contain the edit.

I never really play the edit - only when I do a "countdown" of 1964 mono US Top hits.

Edited by davidclark - 12 May 2025 at 7:19am