This newcastle band was grounded in the blues, but their first big hit came from a cover version of the american folk song house of the rising sun:

The Animals

Explanation:

The Animals was a musical band that emerged in the 60s in Newcastle upon Tyne, in the United Kingdom.

The band's original line-up was: Hilton Valentinem on guitar, Alan Price on keyboard, Chas Chandler on bass, John Steel on drums and Eric Burdon as vocalist and group leader.

"The House of the Rising Sun" is possibly the best known song of the group.

he was always smiling, wearing the same thing, and sitting criss cross apple sauce.

a chromatic scale uses the twelve tones of the octave, while a regular scale only uses eight, or seven different notes (as the first note is played twice)