On this day (September 5) in 1964, The Animals topped the Billboard Hot 100 with “House of the Rising Sun.” The song, an arrangement of a traditional American folk song, occupied the top spot for ...
“House Of The Rising Sun” may be known by several 1960s and 1970s iterations, but it’s far from a mid-20th-century song. The roots of this particular traditional folk song have been traced back to the ...