HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN - ANIMALS - 1964


NEWS

• The “War on Poverty” would be declared

• An attack on an American destroyer would begin the Viet Nam war

• Barry Goldwater ran for President.

• US Surgeon General warns against cigarette smoking.

• Nelson Mandela imprisoned in South Africa, for opposing Apartheid.

• Major earthquake ("Good Friday Earthquake") hits Alaska.

 

FADS and ENTERTAINMENT

• MOVIES: “Bikini Beach”,  “Dr. Strangelove”, “My Fair Lady” wins an Oscar

• The Beatles would have a total of 4 #1 songs in 1964, they would receive 8 gold records in 1964.They would appear on the Ed Sullivan show twice!

• “Go-Go Girls” Carol Doda began go-go dancing topless at the Condor Club in San Francisco. She became the world's most famous go-go dancer, dancing at the Condor for 22 years.

• The first “Muscle Car” the Pontiac GTO hits the streets, as does the Ford Mustang.

• We were dancing “The Swim” “The Frug” & “The Watusi” .

 

#1@1

• 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.

• From Newcastle in Northern England, The Animals with “The House of the Rising Sun” your # 1 @ 1 from September 1964.



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