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the song house of the rising sun with lyrics by the animals
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There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one
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My mother was a tailor
She sewed my new bluejeans
My father was a gamblin' man
Down in New Orleans
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Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and trunk
And the only time he's satisfied
Is when he's on a drunk
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Oh mother tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In the House of the Rising Sun
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Well, I got one foot on the platform
The other foot on the train
I'm goin' back to New Orleans
To wear that ball and chain
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Well, there is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one
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The House of the Rising Sun
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For other uses, see The House of the Rising Sun (disambiguation).
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"The House of the Rising Sun" is a folk song from the United States. Also called "House of the Rising Sun" or occasionally "Rising Sun Blues", it tells of a life gone wrong in New Orleans. Depending on the version, the song may be sung from the perspective of a woman or a man. The most successful version was recorded by the English rock group The Animals in 1964, which was a number one hit in the United Kingdom, United States, Sweden and Canada. The Animals' version was also a part of the soundtrack for the Martin Scorsese 1995 film Casino.
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Origin and early versions
Like many classic folk ballads, the authorship of "The House of the Rising Sun" is uncertain. Some musicologists say that it is based on the tradition of broadside ballads such as the Unfortunate Rake of the 18th century which were taken to America by early settlers. Many of these had the theme of "if only" and after a period of evolution, they emerge as American songs like "Streets of Laredo". The tradition of the blues combined with these in which the telling of a sad story has a therapeutic effect.
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Alan Price of the Animals has claimed that the song was originally a sixteenth-century English folk song about a Soho brothel, and that English emigrants took the song to America where it was adapted to its later New Orleans setting.[1]
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The oldest known existing recording is by versatile Appalachian artists Clarence "Tom" Ashley and Gwen Foster and was made in 1933.[citation needed] Ashley said he had learned it from his grandfather, Enoch Ashley. Alger "Texas" Alexander's The Risin' Sun, which was recorded in 1928, is sometimes mentioned as the first recording, but this is a completely different song.
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The song might have been lost to obscurity had it not been collected by folklorist Alan Lomax. Lomax and his father were curators of the Archive of American Folk Song for the Library of Congress from 1932. They searched the country for songs. On an expedition with his wife to eastern Kentucky Lomax set up his recording equipment in Middlesborough, Kentucky in the house of a singer and activist called Tilman Cadle. On 15 Sept 1937 he recorded a performance by Georgia Turner, the 16 year-old daughter of a local miner. He called it The Risin' Sun Blues. Lomax later recorded a different version sung by Bert Martin and a third sung by Daw Henson, both eastern Kentucky singers. Lomax, in his seminal 1941 songbook Our Singing Country, credited the lyrics to Turner, with reference to Martin's version. According to his later writing, the melody bears similarities to a traditional English ballad, Matty Groves.[2][3]
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Roy Acuff, who recorded the song commercially on November 3, 1938, may have learned the song from Clarence Ashley with whom he sometimes performed. In 1941, Woody Guthrie recorded a version. A recording made by Josh White in 1947 was released on Mercury Records in 1950. In late 1948 Lead Belly recorded a version called "In New Orleans" in the sessions that later became the album Lead Belly's Last Sessions (1994, Smithsonian Folkways). In 1957 Glenn Yarbrough recorded the song for Elektra Records. The song is also credited to Ronnie Gilbert on one of the old Weavers albums with Pete Seeger that was released in the late '40s or early '50s. Frankie Laine recorded the song then titled "New Orleans" on his 1959 "Balladeer" album. Joan Baez recorded it in 1960 on her eponymous debut album.[4] In 1960 Miriam Makeba recorded the song on her eponymous RCA album LSP2267.
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In late 1961, Bob Dylan recorded the song for his self-titled, first album, Bob Dylan, released in March 1962. Dylan claims a writer's credit for the song. In an interview on the documentary No Direction Home, Dave Van Ronk said that he was intending to record it at that time, and that Bob Dylan copied his version of the song. He recorded it himself soon thereafter on Just Dave Van Ronk.
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I had learned it sometime in the 1950s, from a recording by Hally Wood, the Texas singer and collector, who had got it from an Alan Lomax field recording by a Kentucky woman named Georgia Turner. I put a different spin on it by altering the chords and using a bass line that descended in half steps—a common enough progression in jazz, but unusual among folksingers. By the early 1960s, the song had become one of my signature pieces, and I could hardly get off the stage without doing it. — Dave Van Ronk[5]
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Nina Simone recorded her first version of the Rising Sun on Nina at the Village Gate in 1962, the song was recorded earlier. In 1965 in Latin America the Colombian group Los Speakers recorded a version in Spanish called "La casa del sol naciente", which was also the title of their second album. They earned a silver record (for sales of over 15,000 copies), an astronomical number for that time period.
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An interview with Eric Burdon of The Animals revealed that he first heard the song in a club in Newcastle, where it was sung by a Northumbrian folk singer called Johnny Handle. The Animals were on tour with Chuck Berry and chose it because they wanted something distinctive to sing.[2] This interview refutes assertions that the inspiration for The Animals' arrangement came directly from Dylan's recording. Regardless, the Animals enjoyed a huge hit with the song, much to Dylan's chagrin when his version was referred to as a cover of The Animals' version—the irony of which was not lost on Van Ronk. Dave Van Ronk went on record as saying that the whole issue was a "tempest in a teapot", and that Dylan stopped playing the song after The Animals' hit because fans accused Dylan of plagiarizing the Animals' version. Dylan has said he first heard The Animals' version on his car radio and "jumped out of his car seat" because he liked it so much. The Chambers Brothers recorded a version on "Feelin' The Blues", released on VAULT records.
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Lyrics
| "for woman singer" : There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun. It's been the ruin of many a poor girl, And me, O God, for one. If I had listened what Mama said, I'd 'a' been at home today. Being so young and foolish, poor boy, Let a rambler lead me astray. Go tell my baby sister Never do like I have done To shun that house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun. My mother she's a tailor, She sewed those new blue jeans. My sweetheart, he's a drunkard, Lord, Lord, Drinks down in New Orleans. The only thing a drunkard needs Is a suitcase and a trunk. The only time he's satisfied Is when he's on a drunk. Fills his glasses to the brim, Passes them around Only pleasure he gets out of life Is hoboin' from town to town. One foot is on the platform And the other one on the train, I'm going back to New Orleans To wear that ball and chain. Going back to New Orleans, My race is almost run. Going back to spend the rest of my days Beneath that Rising Sun | "for man singer" : There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy And God I know I'm one My mother was a tailor She sewed my new blue jeans My father was a gamblin' man Down in New Orleans Now the only thing a gambler needs Is a suitcase and a trunk And the only time he's satisfied Is when he's on a drunk Oh mother tell your children Not to do what I have done Spend your lives in sin and misery In the House of the Rising Sun Well, I got one foot on the platform The other foot on the train I'm goin' back to New Orleans To wear that ball and chain Well, there is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy And God I know I'm one |
The Animals version
| "The House of the Rising Sun" | ||||
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| Single by The Animals | ||||
| B-side | "Talkin' 'Bout You" (R. Charles) | |||
| Released | June 1964 (UK) August 1964 (U.S.) | |||
| Format | 7" single | |||
| Recorded | 18 May 1964 | |||
| Genre | Psychedelic rock, Blues rock | |||
| Length | 4:29 (full - UK) 2:58 (edited - U.S. original) | |||
| Label | Columbia Graphophone DB7301 (UK) MGM Records 13264 (U.S.) | |||
| Writer(s) | Trad., arranged Alan Price | |||
| Producer | Mickie Most | |||
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Dave Marsh described The Animals' take on "The House of the Rising Sun" as "the first folk-rock hit," sounding "as if they'd connected the ancient tune to a live wire,"[6] while writer Ralph McLean of the BBC agreed that "it was arguably the first folk rock tune," calling it "a revolutionary single" after which "the face of modern music was changed forever."[7] Dave Van Ronk claims that this version was based on his arrangement of the song.[8]
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The Animals' version transposes the narrative of the song from the point of view of a woman led into a life of degradation, to that of a male, whose father was now a gambler and drunkard, as opposed to the sweetheart in earlier versions.
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The Animals had begun featuring their arrangement of "House of the Rising Sun" during a joint concert tour with Chuck Berry, using it as their closing number to differentiate themselves from acts which always closed with straight rockers.[9] It got a tremendous reaction from the audience, convincing initially reluctant producer Mickie Most that it had hit potential[9], and between tour stops the group went to a small recording studio on Kingsway in London[9] to capture it.
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Recorded in just one take on 18 May 1964,[10] it started with a famous electric guitar A minor chord arpeggio by Hilton Valentine.[7][11][12] The performance took off with Eric Burdon's lead vocal, which has been variously described as "howling",[6] "soulful",[13] and "deep and gravelly as the north-east English coal town of Newcastle that spawned him."[12] Finally, Alan Price's pulsating organ part completed the sound (see Vox Continental). Burdon later said, "We were looking for a song that would grab people's attention,"[14] and they succeeded: "House of the Rising Sun" was a true trans-Atlantic hit, topping both the U.S. pop singles chart (in September 1964, when it became the first British Invasion number one unconnected with The Beatles[15]) and the UK pop singles chart (two months earlier, in July of that year); it was the group's breakthrough hit in both countries and became their signature song.[16] The song was also a hit in a number of other countries.
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The Animals' rendition of the song is recognized as one of the classics of the British Invasion. Writer Lester Bangs labeled it "a brilliant rearrangement" and "a new standard rendition of an old standard composition."[17] It ranked number 122 on Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time list. It is also one of The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. The RIAA placed it as number 240 on their Songs of the Century list. In 1999 it received a Grammy Hall of Fame Award. And besides critical acclaim, it has long since become a staple of oldies and classic rock radio formats. A 2005 Five poll ranked it as Britons' fourth favourite number one song of all time.[10]
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As recorded, "House of the Rising Sun" ran four and a half minutes, regarded as far too long for a pop single at the time.[10] Producer Most, who otherwise minimized his role on this occasion — "Everything was in the right place ... It only took 15 minutes to make so I can't take much credit for the production"[18] — nonetheless was now a believer and declared it as a single at its full length, saying "We're in a microgroove world now, we will release it."[18]
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In the United States, though, the original single (MGM 13264) was a 2:58 version that sounded as if it had been hastily edited. The MGM Golden Circle reissue (KGC 179) featured the unedited 4:29 version, although the label shows the edited playing time of 2:58. The edited version was included on the group's 1964 U.S. debut album The Animals, while the full version was later included on their best-selling 1966 U.S. greatest hits album The Best of The Animals. However, the very first American release of the full-length version was on a 1965 album of various groups entitled 'Mickie Most Presents British Go-Go' (MGM SE-4306), the cover of which, under the listing of "House Of The Rising Sun," boasted "Original Uncut Version." Americans also had a chance to hear the complete version in the movie 'Go Go Mania' (aka 'Pop Gear') in the spring of 1965.
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"House of the Rising Sun" was not included on any of the group's British albums. Rather, it was reissued as a single twice in subsequent decades, charting both times: to number 25 in 1972, and to number 11 in 1982.
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The arranging credit went only to Alan Price. According to Burdon, this was simply because there was insufficient room to name all five band members on the record label, and Alan Price's name was first alphabetically. However, this meant that only Price received songwriter's royalties for the hit, a fact that has caused bitterness ever since, especially with Valentine.[7]
Frijid Pink version
| "House of the Rising Sun" | |
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| from the album Frijid Pink (album) | |
| B-side | "Drivin' Blues" (U.S.) "God Gave Me You" (UK) |
| Released | 1969 |
| Format | 7" single |
| Genre | Hard rock |
| Length | 4:44 (album) 3:23 (single) |
| Label | Parrot Records (U.S.) London Records (UK) |
| Writer(s) | Trad. |
| Producer | Michael Valvano |
The only rendition other than The Animals' to become a hit came in early 1970, when Detroit-based Frijid Pink released their take on the song. Sometimes described as done in psychedelic music style, Pink's rendition is actually more aligned with the proto-metal/proto-punk sound of fellow contemporaneous Detroit acts MC5 and The Stooges. The Frijid Pink version of the song is in 4/4 time signature (like Dave Van Ronk's version, and most earlier versions, rather than the 6/8 used by The Animals. The performance was driven by Gary Ray Thompson's distorted guitar[19] with fuzz and wah wah effects, set against frenetic drumming from Richard Stevers. Lead singer Tom Beaudry's (aka:Kelly Green) vocal phrasing almost exactly matched Eric Burdon's.
Regardless of its merits, the recording was indeed again a trans-Atlantic success, reaching number 7 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 pop singles chart, number 4 on the UK Singles Chart, and number 3 in Canada. It was awarded gold record status in the U.S. in May 1970 for selling a million copies.[20] It also hit number one in a number of European countries, including West Germany and Norway. It would be Frijid Pink's only top ten hit.
The real house
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Various places in New Orleans, Louisiana have been proposed as the inspiration for the song, with varying plausibility. The phrase "House of the Rising Sun" is often understood as a euphemism for a brothel, but it is not known whether or not the house described in the lyrics was an actual or fictitious place. One theory speculated the song is about a daughter who killed her father, an alcoholic gambler who had beaten his wife. Therefore, the House of the Rising Sun may be a jail-house, from which one would be the first person to see the sun rise (an idea supported by the lyric mentioning "a ball and chain," though that phrase has been used as slang to describe marital relationships for at least as long as the song has been in print). Because the song was often sung by women, another theory is that the House of the Rising Sun was where prostitutes were detained while they were treated for syphilis. Since cures with mercury were ineffective, going back was very likely[2][3].
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Only two candidates have historical documentation as using the name "Rising Sun", both having listings in old period city directories. The first was a small short-lived hotel on Conti Street in the French Quarter in the 1820s. It burned down in 1822. An excavation and document search in early 2005 found evidence supporting this claim, including an advertisement with language that may have euphemistically indicated prostitution. An unusually large number of pots of rouge and cosmetics were found by archaeologists at the site.
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The second possibility was a late 19th century "Rising Sun Hall" on the riverfront of the uptown Carrollton neighborhood, which seems to have been a building owned and used for meetings of a Social Aid & Pleasure Club, commonly rented out for dances and functions. It also is no longer extant. Definite links to gambling or prostitution (if any) are undocumented for either of these buildings.
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Another claim is that The House of the Rising Sun actually existed between 1862 and about 1874 and was run by a Madam Marianne LeSoleil Levant whose name translates from French as "the rising sun". Bizarre New Orleans, a guide book on New Orleans, asserts that the real house was at 1614 Esplanade Avenue between 1862 and 1874 and was purportedly named for its madam, Marianne LeSoleil Levant[2].
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It is also possible that the "House of the Rising Sun" is a metaphor for either the slave pens of the plantation, the plantation house, or the plantation itself, which were the subjects and themes of many traditional blues songs. Dave van Ronk claimed in his autobiography that he had seen pictures of the old Orleans Parish Women's Prison, the entrance to which was decorated with a rising sun design. He considered this proof that the House of the Rising Sun had been a nickname for the prison.
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The gender of the singer is flexible. Earlier versions of the song are often sung from the female perspective, a woman who followed a drunk or a gambler to New Orleans and became a prostitute in the House of the Rising Sun (or, depending on one's interpretation, an inmate in a prison of the same name), such as in Joan Baez's version on her self-titled 1960 debut album. The Animals version was sung from a perspective of a male, warning about gambling and drinking. Bob Dylan's 1962 version and Shawn Mullins' recent covered version on his album "9th Ward Pickin' Parlor" is sung from the female perspective.
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Not everyone, however, believes that the house even existed at all. On the BBC's 'h2g2' database, Pamela D. Arceneaux, a research librarian working at the Williams Research Center in New Orleans, is quoted as saying: "I have made a study of the history of prostitution in New Orleans and have often confronted the perennial question, 'Where is the House of the Rising Sun?' without finding a satisfactory answer. Although it is generally assumed that the singer is referring to a brothel, there is actually nothing in the lyrics that indicate that the 'house' is a brothel. Many knowledgeable persons have conjectured that a better case can be made for either a gambling hall or a prison; however, to paraphrase Freud: sometimes lyrics are just lyrics."
Cover versions
The song has been also covered by Doc Watson, Leslie West, Santa Esmeralda, Secret Tunes, Walls of Jericho, EverEve, Bon Jovi, Stefanie Heinzmann, Muse, Waylon Jennings, George Isaacs, Udo Jürgens, Manfred Krug, Almanac Singers, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Joan Baez, Alan Price, Brand New Sin, Tracy Chapman, Josh White, Cher, David Allan Coe, The Spencer Davis Group, Lonnie Donegan, Declan, Sunrise Trio, The Supremes, The Everly Brothers, Marianne Faithfull, Jerry Garcia, Geordie, Andy Griffith, Jandek, Holly Johnson, Tim Hardin, Jimi Hendrix, Kaleidoscope, Ricky King, James Last, Leandro, Miriam Makeba, Helmut Lotti, Idris Muhammad, Sinéad O'Connor, Odetta, Pilar, Dolly Parton, The White Stripes, Salsa Rosso, Rage, Sex Mob, Tangerine Dream, Claudia Faniello, Rod Stewart, Ultramax, Takeshi Terauchi, Cat Power, Conway Twitty, The Ventures, Gerry & The Pacemakers, Tommy Emmanuel, Peter Fox, Duran Duran, MUCC, The Chubb-Chubbs, Mark Lammar, Sentenced, Toto, Montana Skies, Roxy Perry, Colm Wilkinson, Sivert Høyem(2009), Lea Laven, K.I.Z., London Symphony Orchestra, Johnny Halliday, Bob Dylan John Otway (call-and-response version) and many more.
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Eric Burdon performed the song with Udo Lindenbergs Panik Orchester (1979), Alison Moyet & Jools Holland (1982), Robby Krieger (1990) and Brian Auger (1991 - 1994).
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| Preceded by "It's Over" by Roy Orbison | UK number one single (The Animals version) July 9, 1964 (one week) | Succeeded by "It's All Over Now" by The Rolling Stones |
| Preceded by "Where Did Our Love Go" by The Supremes | Billboard Hot 100 number one single (The Animals version) September 5, 1964 (three weeks) | Succeeded by "Oh, Pretty Woman" by Roy Orbison |
References
- ^ Speaking on the Paul Jones Show, BBC Radio 2, transmitted 5 October 2009
- ^ a b c d BBC Radio 4 program 18 Jan. 2008
- ^ a b BBC web site
- ^ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkyYHYUcGgo
- ^ The Mayor of Macdougal Street, ISBN 9780306814792, pp around 115
- ^ a b Dave Marsh, The Heart of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made, NAL, 1989. Entry #91.
- ^ a b c Ralph McLean, "Stories Behind the Song: 'House of the Rising Sun'", BBC, undated. Accessed May 4, 2007.
- ^ Dave Van Ronk: The Mayor of Macdougal Street. Then, sometime in 1964, Eric Burdon and the Animals made a number-one chart hit out of the damn thing. Same arrangement. I would have loved to sue for royalties, but I found that it is impossible to defend the copyright on an arrangement.
- ^ a b c Eric Burdon, I Used to Be an Animal, but I'm All Right Now, Faber and Faber, 1986, pp. 60-62.
- ^ a b c Ray Marshall, "The rise of supergroup", Newcastle Evening Chronicle, August 17, 2005. Accessed May 5, 2007.
- ^ T.J. McGrath, "Hilton Valentine: The Sun Also Rises", Dirty Linen, June/July 2006. Accessed May 4, 2007.
- ^ a b Barry York, "House of Worship", The Age, July 9, 2004. Accessed May 4, 2007.
- ^ Gina Vivinetto, "More animal magnetism", St. Petersburg Times, January 15, 2004. Accessed May 4, 2007.
- ^ "House of the Rising Sun", Rolling Stone, posted December 9, 2004. Accessed May 4, 2007.
- ^ "The Animals", Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 1994. Accessed May 4, 2007.
- ^ Muze article, "Best Of The Animals (Abkco)", Tower Records. Accessed May 4, 2007.
- ^ Lester Bangs, "The British Invasion", in The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock & Roll, 1980, p. 176.
- ^ a b Jon Kutner, Spencer Leigh, 1000 UK Number One Hits, Omnibus Press, 2005.
- ^ Frijid Pink entry, Allmusic. Accessed May 19, 2007.
- ^ RIAA searchable database
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