Moving deeper into my review of the Golden Decade of Music 1965-1974, where I am selecting the artists alphabetically and playing selections of their songs I liked or found influential from that Golden Decade. I am now moving into the D’s and on to the next artist, The Doors, an American band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles, consisting of vocalist Jim Morrison, keyboardist Ray Manzarek, drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger. The band took its name from the title of Aldous Huxleys book The Doors of Perception and made reference to a William Blake quotation, from his famous work The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. The Doors released eight albums between 1967 and 1971. All but one hit the Top 10 of the Billboard 200 and went platinum or better. The first song I am selecting from The Doors is Light My Fire, a song recorded in August 1966 and released the first week of January 1967 on the Doors debut album. Released as an edited single on June 1, 1967, it spent three weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in late July, serving as their breakthrough and is considered their signature song. The song originated as an unfinished Robby Krieger composition, which the other band members then expanded upon. Ray Manzarek said that the distinctive organ intro was inspired by Johann Sebastian Bachs ‘Two and Three Part Inventions’. The album version was just over seven minutes long, so when it was widely requested for radio play a single version was edited to under three minutes with nearly all the instrumental break removed for airplay on AM radio. https://youtube/watch?v=LY1l8T2Lcl0
Posted on: Sun, 21 Dec 2014 13:08:43 +0000
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