ABBA released Knowing Me, Knowing You, the third single from their fourth studio album Arrival February 14, 1977. It was one of their biggest hits and one of their best songs. Billboard ranked it #4 on its list of top 15 ABBA songs. Rolling Stone ranked it as #2 on their list of top 25 ABBA songs.
The British rock band The Animals' recording of House of the Rising Sun reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 among other charts, September 5, 1964. It reached #1 in Canada, Finland, Spain and the UK.
The origin of the song is mired in rumor and legend. It has a resemblance to a 16th century ballad, and the Rising Sun is the name of a "bawdy house" in two English traditional songs. It has been said that American miners sang it in 1905. The oldest publish version of the lyrics were printed in 1925 by Robert Winslow Gordon. The oldest known recording of the song is by Clarence "Tom" Ashley and Gwen Foster was made on September 6, 1933 under the name Rising Sun Blues.
Woody Guthrie recorded it in 1941, and it has been covered by artists such as Glenn Yarborough, Pete Seeger, Joan Baez, Andy Griffith, Nina Simone, Bob Dylan, and Dolly Parton.
But the performance by The Animals is the most recognized version. It is listed by Rolling Stone magazine as #122 on the list of 500 Greatest Songs of All Times. It received a Grammy Hall of Fame award in 1999.
The Go-Go's' album Beauty and the Beat reached #1 on the Billboard 200 March 6, 1982, making them the first all-female band to have an album reach the top spot. It went double-platinum and, in 2020, Rolling Stone magazine ranked it #400 on its list of 500 Greatest Albums of all Time.
