“The House Of The Rising Sun” (Frijid Pink) #7 4/4/1970

Our selection today is a hard-rock remake of an oft-recorded tune mostly believed to be about a New Orleans whorehouse. It’s been done by everyone from Leadbelly to Roy Acuff to Bob Dylan to Dolly Parton, but the most famous version was from the Animals in 1964. This take from Detroit rockers Frijid Pink, strangely, was bigger worldwide than the Animals but became the US group’s only hit.