Senegoid:
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?
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:
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?
Bump!
Way back in July 2017 I posted this. Anyone know of this haunting instrumental arrangement of House Of The Rising Sun , a.k.a. Casa Del Sol ? After all this time, I came across it!
It’s titled Casa Del Sol as interpreted by Frank DeVol. It’s not all strings, as I had remembered it from 50-some years ago. This upload to YouTube is a bit scratchy, but still a haunting listen.
