Tuesday, December 6, 2011 4:14:24 PM
1927 oe 1933/34 is recorder, but 1933 is "from his grandfather" "The oldest known existing recording is by Texas Alexander, recorded in 1927 [...">" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Rising_Sun love your wiki
Sunday, December 4, 2011 4:52:14 PM
that song came out in 1933 by leadbelly
There are references to it from the 1920s, and those references state that it was an old song then (singer taught it by a grandparent, that sort of thing). Of course, nobody was recording anything back then. It's even claimed that it predates the USA entirely and has its origins in England centuries ago. Nobody knows.