Bruce NZ wrote:

Interesting story. Slightly different, but it has always seemed unfair that Alan Price gets the writing credit for House Of The Rising Sun when it a version of a traditional American song and the reality of the The Animals version is that it leans heavily on the vocals of Eric Burdon for its success. 

Similarly the hits of The Small Faces (more in the UK than the US) are credited to Marriott and Lane and exclude Ian McLagan who added the critical swirling keyboards to their recordings.

 

in slight defense of alan price: well, tradition can't sue you. i agree the track was driven by burdon, but you could argue that eric was singing in a fairly traditional blues style, and the only really original contributions to the song were by price and the recently late hilton valentine, perhaps.

in the case of small faces, yeah, you'd think that in most instances, the entire band should have gotten writing credit. but they were controlled by the notorious don arden, who, i'm guessing, likely would have been making those kind of decisions for the band.
 

Last edited by gopher (April 11, 2021 9:42 am)