# Help me find this "House of the Rising Sun" cover

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** music\
**Created:** [July 29, 2017, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-house-of-the-rising-sun-cover/792385 "2017-07-29T12:16:59Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-find-this-house-of-the-rising-sun-cover/792385/11 "2017-07-30T04:36:47Z")

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Permit me, if you will (or even if you won’t), to piggy-back onto this thread with my own request for a certain rendition of House of the Rising Sun. A bit over a year ago, in this thread:  
[What’s your favorite “haunting” song?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=789921)  
I posted this request:

> [@What's your favorite "haunting" song?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-haunting-song/751741/69):
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> If “haunting” can mean _“hauntingly beautiful”_, without anything to do with death or ghosts:
> 
> Circa 1967, when I was circa 16 years old, I heard on the radio:
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> A fully instrumental arrangement of House of the Rising Sun, although the radio announcer announced it by the name Casa Del Sol. It was performed entirely on strings, including bass guitar for the percussion. I don’t know who the orchestra was or the conductor.
> 
> I’ve never been able to find it on-line on YouTube. I put up a thread in this forum a while back asking if anyone knew of it, from my meager description. I got a lot of pointers to various renditions, but none was it.

So with **Smapti** ’s on-topic thread here, I thought I might try yet again. The version I’m looking for is _not_ the 101 Strings version linked up-thread – it’s even more “hauntingly beautiful” than that. I suspect, if anyone here knows of the version of which I speak, you’ll know you know it. Anyone?

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