Who wrote the rock classic ';House of the Rising Sun';?

I have been wondering this for a while, I have heard different opinions, but who really wrote it?Who wrote the rock classic ';House of the Rising Sun';?
100% THE ANIMALS!!








Edit: Shame shame shame, looked it up, I'm eating my words at the moment..Who wrote the rock classic ';House of the Rising Sun';?
The Animals
I think I heard on Vh1's Seven Ages of Rock it was The Animals


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well i just looked it up ironically cause i was wondering it too but the oldest known recording of it was back in 1933 Clarence ';Tom'; Ashley and Gwen Foster


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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_o鈥?/a> it doesn't really seem too clear....I don't think anyone know for sure
this was an old folk song from way back in the early 1900s, as has been pointed out...there are a number of different recorded versions, and it's ironic that the animals' version became so popular considering they changed around the lyrics from the original
It may have been some traditional tune handed down throughout the Delta bluesmen of the 1920s or earlier


Here's one opine





Alan Lomax, the famous musicologist, on one of his extremely important field-recording trips to the Southern States of America recorded ';The Rising Sun Blues';, on September 15th, 1937, and credited to Georgia Turner of Middlesboro, Kentucky.


Possibly the song was an old English, Scottish or Irish folk song, or melody, that had been brought over to these mountainous regions of America by British settlers a hundred or more years before. The words were obviously altered as New Orleans was THE den of iniquity in the South. We have heard of a version in England, whose lyrics are, ';There is a house in Lowerstoft they call the Rising Sun';
think it was Eric Burton who was lead singer with band called The Ainmals who had a big hit with it late 60';s. lots of covers of this song but the Animals were the orginial.
The Animals
the animals BUT muse also sung it.
The Animals were the first to write and record the song, and a zillion others have since done covers!
The Animals did

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