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anonymous popular song from the late 1800s, early 1900s, that tells the story of the brothel at 1614 Esplanade Avenue in the red-light district of Storyville, or better known as The District of New Orleans, which existed from 1897 until its closure in 1917. It was nicknamed after its French-born maitresse Marianne Le Soleil Levant, who was recorded in 1934 by the Appalachian bluesman Clarence "Tom" Ashley, and in 1964 the Animals, led by Eric Burdon, turned it into a formidable evergreen, covered dozens and dozens of times by Joan Baez, Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Bob Dylan, Leadbelly, etc. etc.