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pseydtonne · 4141 days ago · link · · parent · post: So we did cover songs, how about great originals that were eclipsed by a cover version?
House of the Rising Sun It turns out no one is really sure who wrote this tale. The first recording is from 1934 and lots of country singers tackled it for the next couple decades. Then came the folk revival of the early 1960s, when Dave van Ronk sang it. Then Bob Dylan put it on his debut album in 1962 and people thought it was his tune. Then Eric Burdon and the Animals covered it in 1964 and made their break. Oddity I just learned from the aforementioned Wikipedia page: there may have been an actual place in New Orleans in the 1860s called Rising Sun Coffee House.