"The House of the Rising Sun", also known as "Rising Sun Blues" is a traditional folk blues. According to Alan Lomax, "Rising Sun" was the name of a bawdy house in two traditional English songs and it was also a name for English pubs. Lomax proposed that the location of the house was then relocated from England to New Orleans by White Southern performers. The oldest published version of the lyrics is that printed by Robert Winslow Gordon in 1925 in a column "Old Songs That Men Have Sung" in Adventure magazine. The oldest known recording of the song, under the title "Rising Sun Blues", is by Appalachian artists Clarence "Tom" Ashley and Gwen Foster, who recorded it on September 6, 1933 on the Vocalion label. The song was among those collected by folklorist Alan Lomax on an expedition with his wife to eastern Kentucky, Lomax recorded a performance by Georgia Turner, the 16-year-old daughter of a local miner. He called it "The Rising Sun Blues". Lomax later recorded a different version sung by Bert Martin and a third sung by Daw Henson, both eastern Kentucky singers. He published these in his 1941 songbook Our Singing Country. The 1964 recording by The Animals is the best known version. This version is from Pete Seeger's book American Favorite Ballads (1961). It was recorded by Woody Guthrie (1941), the Almanac Singers (1941), Josh White (1942), Leadbelly (1944), the Weavers (1959), Pete Seeger (1958), Joan Baez (1960), Nina Simone (1962), Tim Hardin (1967), Glenn Yarbrough (1957), Bob Dylan (1961), Dave Van Ronk (1964), The Animals (1964) and hundreds of others.