The Animals' House Of The Rising of the earliest and finest examples of a bunch of white English kids taking a traditional Southern blues folk song, giving it a tweak and selling it back to an eager American (and worldwide) audience and in doing so, single-handedly created the genre of folk rock. As the first non-Beatles related British Invasion US number One - a full year before the Rolling Stones got there with Satisfaction - the influence of House Of The Rising Sun and its tale of a hard-luck, drinking, gambling and the eponymous bordello, can never be underestimated for all those that followed. A kick arse soundtrack too.