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Post by darkstar on Jan 22, 2005 14:50:18 GMT
 The Doors TV shows 1967. 18th February 1967: Boss City KHJ-TV Los AngelesThe Doors appear for the first time on KHJ-TV's Boss City in February of 1967.
This was a similar style to the UK Top Of The Pops hosted by Boss Radio DJ Sam Riddle, this hour long colour episode was broadcast on February 18th at 6:00pm. They lip synch to Break On Through which was released in January.
KHJ Boss Radio would sponsor the bands Hollywood Bowl concert in 1968** there was confusion over whether this was the first or second TV appearance for The Doors.
Newer research this last decade has found a different date for Shebang making this the bands first TV appearance. Although the exact date of Shebang is also in doubt as the autographed ticket has different dates on it.
The EXACT same ticket has 27th on the one I am using and 25th on another indicating that the ticket did not have a date on it and somehow different dates have been stamped on the exact same autographed ticket.
Either that or the 4 Doors and Casey Kasem managed to autograph this ticket in exactly the same way as the one with 25th stamped on it.
It's never easy being a Doors fan.  February TV Guide  February 27th 1967: Shebang, KTLA-TV Channel 5, Los Angeles CA.   Ticket dated 27th February 1967.  The EXACT same ticket with the 25th or 26th stamped on it.“It was our first time doing a TV show and we really had no idea what we were doing. When the director started telling us what to do, we just looked at each other and said, ‘I guess that’s how it is’.
We learned later that wasn’t the case, but it was a great initial experience.”Ray Manzarek   “We had no say what-so-ever. There was a director telling us exactly what to do, and we did it. We just felt lucky to be there. Shebang was a local TV show, so it wasn’t as big as Dick Clark, but it was great to be on there.”Robby Krieger “This is one of our first TV performances. We were clearly nervous. I mean, Jim won’t even look at the camera or anything. I’m somehow positioned in the front. I’m the ‘lead drummer’. Ridiculous!”John Densmore   The Doors are filmed lip synching to a play back of their debut single 'Break On Through'.
The whole band looks very collegiate and the unusual set up places Densmore at centre stage on drums between Morrison (stage left) and Manzarek. Krieger stands behind them directly in front of some garden furnishings. The host is Casey Kasem.
Doors On The Road** They are featured later in the year when Light My Fire is played for the audience to dance. The band do not make an appearance. |
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Sept 20, 2023 19:25:09 GMT
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Sept 21, 2023 11:52:43 GMT
22nd July 1967 American Bandstand ABC Studios, Hollywood Los Angeles This is the biggest TV exposure the band have to date. A special summer edition of the show on which The Doors feature heavily.
First miming to The Crystal Ship followed by an interview with host Dick Clark and finally a mimed version of Light My Fire.
After the interview Clark introduces LMF catching the band by surprise as they are not ready.
They manage to avoid catastrophe and Jim is able to come in on cue.
Considering Jim did not like miming he does a very good job on both songs. PART CONTRACT signed by Jim for the band to make an American Bandstand TV appearance in July 1967. TV Guide July 1967This special midsummer edition of American Bandstand runs through the countdown of the top-10 hit songs for July.
"Light My Fire" will soon be number one, but tonight the Doors are sandwiched between Jefferson Airplane's "White Rabbit" (number three) and Procul Harum's "Whiter Shade of Pale" (number one).
After the countdown, host Dick Clark sits next to a member of the studio audience and asks him what his favourite tune is. He replies "Crystal Ship" upon which Clark introduces The Doors. They run through a lip-synched version of the song. THE CRYSTAL SHIP    “There were two ways to make a hit record back then. You had to get on AM radio and you had to get on TV. American Bandstand was the big rock and Roll show of the day. A little corny maybe, but it was the best thing we could get going at the time. We were happy to do it. ”Robby Krieger“Dick Clark was an icon even back then when we went to do his show and so we were pretty excited to be on that.”John DensmoreINTERVIEW WITH DICK CLARK  Clark: Ray, let me start with you and a question if I may. How do you characterize your music, does it have a name?
Manzarek: Well it's impossible really to put a label on it, because of where we are in the music, being on the inside, you're only of the music, and all categories have to come from the outside, so someone else is going to have to say what our music is, rather than us because we are our music.
Clark: Let me leap up here (to Robby), future plans - somebody mentioned you are going somewhere?
Krieger: Yeah, we're gonna go to England and our new album should be out in about September.
Clark: Why is so much happening in San Francisco? You figured it out yet?
Morrison: Uh, the west is the best.
Clark: You sold many, many albums before you sold a single record. It's a phenomenal record success all around, the album and the single. How long did it take to make that first album?
Densmore: About a month.
Clark: It's a relatively short amount of time in this day and age, isn't it?
Densmore: We're in the middle of our second album now, trying to top the first one. LIGHT MY FIRE          LA Times: Dick Clark makes bold prediction
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Sept 22, 2023 9:43:16 GMT
25th August 1967: Malibu U ABC TV  Malibu U was an interesting format.
A mythical University (probably more real than Donald Trumps) centred on Malibu Beach where the 'Dean' Ricky Nelson (yes that one) would introduce bands as 'professors'
whilst surrounded by the bikini clad student body.
It had everything teenage lads wanted music and beautiful bikini clad ladies.
Recorded in late July early August The Doors episode was first shown on 25th August.
It is of interest because of one thing.
Jim could not be arced anymore to mime to Light My Fire so did not turn up.
The band averted disaster by getting their roadie Ronny Krieger (Robby's brother) to stand in for Jim.
So it was Ronny played Jim with his back to the camera throughout.
 
 
“What can I say? I mean, The Doors performing ‘Light My Fire’ on top of an antique fire truck parked on a beach? It’s very funny to be honest. Doing it was next to totally absurd. What fun!”
Ray Manzarek
 
Filmed at the Leo Carrillo State Beach off the Pacific Highway on the outskirts of Los Angeles they are introduced by Nelson, with bikini clad beauties, as 'here's the hottest group going',
there is a shot of a house burning before The Doors appear standing on a vintage fire engine with more girls as the crew.
It is claimed that the band did not tell Malibu U that Jim wasn't there but this is contradicted by shots of Jim miming dressed in the same shirt Ronnie wore
which are edited into the final performance. Jim is persuaded to film a short shoot on top of the 9000 building on Sunset Boulevard with the sky as background so as not to reveal he was not on the fire engine.
Whatever is true (and this is The Doors we are talking about) the Doors slot was well filmed with some odd but interesting camera angles, which with the fire engine, showed the programme tried to be original and made it worth the watch.  “I’m pretty sure Jim wouldn’t have liked the idea at all, so in that way I’m kinda glad Jim didn’t come. It’s pretty corny, ya know? (laughter)”Robby Krieger“When you look at it now, it’s so kitsch, retro and corny that it’s amusing. Had he showed up, Jim probably would have torched the fire engine we were sitting on. Thank god, eventually, we did whatever the hell we wanted.”John Densmore    Malibu U had a national reach due to ABC but sadly the format did not attract teens in enough numbers and it was cancelled after a half dozen episodes.
A good quality copy of the Doors show exists and can be found on YouTube.
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Sept 22, 2023 17:35:13 GMT
September 1967: 'Rock Scene: Like It Is' CBC TV Toronto Canada. The Doors fly to Toronto sometime in (most likely) September of 1967 to perform on a Canadian television show called “Rock Scene – Like It Is”.
The band were given the priceless opportunity to choose the song they would perform, and they wisely decide to do their epic masterpiece, “The End”.
Although advertised as appearing in the O'Keefe Centre it was actually filmed at CBC studios in the former Carlton Theatre with a live audience.
The date October 16th is the actual broadcast date.
This odd idea that the Canadian audience did not know The Doors is unlikely as the LP had been out 9 months and a new album just weeks away so I'm sure they knew what the band was playing for them.
Ray liked to spread such nonsense and did so on The Soundstage Performances but this does not add up as The Doors were very popular in Canada and LMF had been #1 on several Canadian radio stations in both the East & West coast of Canada.
So I'm sure most of the audience knew who they were and what they were playing.
“They didn’t know any of The Doors’ songs at all. They said, Let them play whatever they want. If they want to play a song called ‘The End’, let them play a song called ‘The End’. The studio was a representation of a psychedelic ballroom with kids on the floor and standing around. We were all young, handsome and good looking, Morrison was just in absolutely top form. We played the entire ‘The End’.”
Ray Manzarek
13-10-67
The Province Ottawa Ontario Canada
The version that is broadcast on television is, not surprisingly, missing the Oedipal section. It’s not known for sure if The Doors performed the song without it, or if it ended up on the cutting room floor.
The band seem to believe they played the full version and there is a split second in the song where it may have been snipped but it was so well done that it was impossible to say yea or nay.
I lean slightly to the 'it was cut' camp but I'm not that sure.
Was there a full version on tape somewhere and as some believe other Doors songs were played during that session.
The show itself is 'ground-breaking' in how it portrayed 'Rock'. It was allowed to run free mixed with excellent production, camera and sound.
So it was possible to understand what the band were really like without miming and standing in front of some useless plastic pot plants.
Originally to be introduced by Brain Epstein but he died so 'The Man From The Girl From UNCLE' Noel Harrison took over.
I was a Big UNCLE fan as a kid.
***This same performance was later broadcast on American TV on a show called “Now Explosion”.***
 
 
The band in 'white' (light) clothing and Jim in black highlighted the two tones within The Doors. Jim was always the darkest band member and lived being a 'Door' 24/7 whilst the others could relax into a sort of 'renowned anonymity' away from the insanity of The Doors.
“It was a round place, very bright, for the TV cameras I suppose. We only had so much time, ten or fifteen minutes, and ‘The End’ was our most powerful piece. We figured, here we are on Canadian national television, let’s give it to ’em , you know?”
Robby Krieger
17-10-1967
The Ottawa Citizen Ontario Canada
 
13 10 67
The Calgary Herald Alberta Canada
 
“The End is based loosely on Indian raga tuning, and in ragas you can wait up to a half hour to get to that climax. When you get there though, it’s such a payoff, it’s worth it. The End was the same way. It’s not a rock and roll beat, it’s a slow, moody kind of thing, although I saw heads bobbing up and down out there, so I knew we were onto something. The audience was jolted. I could just tell. They were like, ‘WOW!’ ”
John Densmore
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Sept 23, 2023 15:38:23 GMT
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Sept 24, 2023 11:50:40 GMT
17th September 1967: The Ed Sullivan Show CBS New York NY The Doors were a late addition to the Sullivan Show probably due to their recent #1 Light My Fire and People Are Strange which by this time was a week away from entering the National Top#100 at #65.
By the time of the broadcast LMF was going down and stood at #18 and People Are Strange.
In what seems tame by modern standards what happened on the Sullivan show was then ground-breaking and had real consequences both for The Doors and how the Sullivan Show presented the new rock format. "On the afternoon of September 17th 1967, The Doors were in CBS’s Studio 50 rehearsing for that night’s live performance. Shortly after they finished, and with only about 15 minutes before air, Ed Sullivan came back to The Doors’ dressing room and said, “You boys look great, [but] you ought to smile a little more.” The comment was a little odd coming from Ed who, of course, was sometimes known as “the great stoneface”.
After Ed stopped by, a producer from the show came into The Doors’ dressing room. He told the group they needed to change a line in the song, “Light My Fire,” specifically the lyric, “Girl, we couldn’t get much higher.” He explained the word “higher” was inappropriate for a family show on national television because of its association with illegal drug use. Though Jim Morrison was furious and adamant about not changing the song, the group relented and told the executive they would alter the lyrics as requested. However, as soon as the producer left the room, Morrison declared, “We’re not changing a word.”
The band, being the last act of the evening, had to wait for about an hour before going on. The Doors took the stage to perform two of their biggest hits. Ed’s introduction was short and simple, “Now, The Doors…here they are with their newest hit record, “People are Strange.” Against a hanging backdrop composed of an assortment of actual doors, the band opened to the screams of adoring fans. Morrison sang the haunting number with a vacant look in his eyes. Immediately following that song the band segued into their number one hit, “Light My Fire.”
When it came time for the line, “Girl, we couldn’t get much higher,” Morrison, the unyielding poet and uncompromising artist, sang it just as it had been written. As he finished the now infamous lyric, the camera caught guitarist Robby Krieger with a quick but telling smirk. But Sullivan’s producer and CBS executives were not smiling.
Following The Doors’ performance the ever gracious yet stoic Sullivan can be seen clapping his hands and mouthing the words, “That was wonderful. Just great!” to the band.
But instead of shaking hands with the group that he usually did he went straight to a commercial for Purina Dog Chow."**What followed was recounted by Ray Manzarek and was used by Oliver Stone for his film.
It is not known if it happened or it was a Ray fantasy that he wanted to have happened.
Ray should always be taken with a barrel of salt.
"Backstage, the show’s producer was furious and told the band “Mr. Sullivan wanted you for six more shows, but you’ll never 'do' The Ed Sullivan Show again.”
To which Morrison purportedly replied, “Hey, man. We just 'did' the Sullivan show.”** it is of note that a band of the stature of The Rolling Stones changed the lyric of Let's Spend The Night Together for the Sullivan show ...but The Doors did not.Ray Manzarek recalls how he found out The Doors were going to appear on the popular variety show. “My wife and I were watching at home…Ed, at the end of the show came on and said, ‘Next week we’re going to have…a rock group from California, The Doors doing their number one hit ‘Light My Fire.’ We looked at each other, saying ‘Oh I guess we’re on The Ed Sullivan Show next week.'” The next morning the band’s manager, Bill Siddons, confirmed the news and booked the group for their flight to New York.Ray Manzarek** how true that is must be anybody's guess as Ray does tend to embellish his tales like this.Some nice B/W photos from the front stage area  People Are StrangeEd introduced the band and said "Now The Doors with their newest hit record. People Are Strange."   “The producers told us we couldn’t use the word ‘higher’ on national television. I’m glad they didn’t do the same thing for radio too.”Robby Krieger“At one point during rehearsal, Ed says to us, ‘You know, you boys are too serious. You should smile. You look good when you’re smiling and laughing’. Thanks for that stage direction, Mr. Sullivan”.John DensmoreThe Doors set was a very conservative style which shows like the recent Murray Kaufman show and the Canadian TV effort avoided.
The Doors ...so lets put a lot of doors as the backdrop.
That bands played live was hugely to their credit.
We have the video of what happened on set. Off set we only have people such as Ray and he lived in a different reality to the rest of us. Did Jim say they were not going to change anything backstage.
Or did he just go out there and drop 'higher' in during the song. Robby Krieger has a bit of a smirk on his face a second after Jim dropped the offending word. But was it from surprise or just confirmation of what he already knew? Light My Fire The moment Jim sings 'higher'
Robby's smirk a moment after Jim sings 'higher'    Discovering what Ed Sullivan wanted to replace higher with Previous to the show the band had been asked to remove 'higher' from the song and they had agreed to this ridiculous alternate lyric.No wonder Jim said 'fuck it'.     **Bit rich him championing free expression when that wasn't allowed on The Doors message forums especially when it exposed him as the fake he is “So Jim sings the word ‘higher’ after we promised he wouldn’t. After the show the producer rushes into the dressing room and screams, ‘We were going to book you for six more shows, but now you’ll never play the Ed Sullivan Show again!’, so Jim says, ‘That’s fine, because we just DID play the Ed Sullivan Show’.”
Ray ManzarekWhen the Doors went on Sullivan
Doors keyboardist Ray Manzarek remembers exactly where he was when he got the word his band would be on "The Ed Sullivan Show." He was watching "The Ed Sullivan Show."
"We watched every week to see the rock 'n' roll band," Manzarek remembers. "So my wife and I are watching the show, and Ed says, 'Next week, Steve and Eydie, Topo Gigio, and a new rock group called the Doors. [The next day] we get a call from our manager telling us we're going to be on Sullivan. We said, 'We know.' "
There was a catch, though. The band was to perform its chart-topping hit, "Light My Fire," but Sullivan didn't want the word "higher" sung on the show. The demand was passed down through one of the show's producers, who met the group in the dressing room. Manzarek remembers the band publicly agreeing like choirboys.
" 'Yes, sir,' we told him," he recalls. "'Whatever you say, sir. We'll change.' [The producer] looked at Jim and said, 'You're the poet. Think of something else -- 'wire,' 'flyer.' "
Then the Doors went out and did the song exactly as they always did. Sullivan was so furious he didn't even shake their hands.
When the Doors got backstage, they learned they wouldn't be back -- ever. "The producer said, 'You promised,' and we said, 'We were so nervous, we're just boys, we've done it a thousand times, it just came out.' He looked at Morrison and said, 'Mr. Sullivan liked you boys. He wanted you on six more times. ... You'll never do the Sullivan show again.' "
To which Morrison retorted with glee, "We just did the Sullivan show."
The ban didn't hurt the Doors' career, of course. The group's albums continued to go Top 10 and they had another No. 1 single, "Hello I Love You," the next summer. But they never did appear on Sullivan again -- a distinction that has helped immortalize the Doors' appearance over that of the many acts who appeared on the show countless times.
Manzarek laughs. "We're still talking about it 35 years later," he says. "We're still doing Ed Sullivan."
CNN Live. Thursday, October 3, 2002
"The Ed Sullivan Show (The Toast of the Town), debuted in 1948 and was one of the most successful television shows in history. Ed Sullivan personally booked all of the performers himself, although he seldom met them until the afternoon dress rehearsal, where he painstakingly surveyed the acts with a somewhat dictatorial approach and requested that any questionable material be deleted. During the Rolling Stones' appearance in 1965, they obliged Sullivan by altering the lyrics of their
song "Let's spend the night together" to "Let's spend some time together."
Sullivan's producer, Bob Precht, requests that the Doors modify "Light My Fire" by substituting "higher" with another adjective.
The band had acquiesced to a similar request previously when they were asked to delete the word "high" from their studio release of "Break on Through."
At the rehearsal, the Doors indicate they will oblige but instead keep the original lyrics intact during the critical live broadcast that night.
One account from New York's Village Voice reports that while backstage just prior to going on, Morrison is so incensed with the censorship that he threatens to substitute "Let's spend the night together!"or "fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck!" in place of the
offending word."
"Since "Light My Fire" was a huge hit by this time, The Doors were invited to perform on CBS's top variety show - The Ed Sullivan Show. On the show that same night there were other celebrities such as Yul Bryner, Steve Lawrence, Eydie Gorme, the Kessler Twins, the Skating Bredos and Rodney Dangerfield - but no doubt it was The Doors that everybody had tuned into to see.
The show's director, Bob Precht (Ed Sullivan's son-in-law) had asked The Doors to omit the word "higher" from the line "girl we couldn't get much higher" due to censorship reasons.
The Doors had agreed that they would use another line. The Doors first played "People Are Strange" prior to "Light My Fire". During "Light My Fire" Jim went ahead and sang this song in the usual way. The Doors were never invited to The Ed Sullivan Show ever again.
Unlike Oliver Stone's movie, THE DOORS, Stone had over exaggerated this story, suggesting that Jim didn't want to change the line whilst Ray, Robbie and John had no problem in changing the line. Listening to this recording, the word "higher" isn't shouted out loud as it was in Stone's movie."
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Sept 24, 2023 15:49:45 GMT
8th November 1967: Bruce Morrow's Music Power WABC-TV New York NY.An anthology type programme with features from around the country.
The Doors appear live from Denver University on September 29th.
They play parts of Light My Fire and The End.
How much of the concert was filmed is unknown as is whether it still exists.      
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Sept 25, 2023 10:36:14 GMT
4th December 1967: The Jonathan Winters Show CBS TV Stage 43 Los Angeles CAFor their final TV appearance of 1967 The band record two songs, Moonlight Drive & Light My Fire, to be broadcast over the Xmas period on the 27th.
Both songs have different stage arrangements and Jim starts off wearing sunglasses and looking cool.
The format and attitude of the Winters show lends itself a more relaxed atmosphere than the formulaic shows such as Ed Sullivan so The Doors feel more comfortable as they perform a nice (if slightly restrained) live versions of the songs.
Incredibly 'you could not make this up' but when the Winter show was first shown on TV the evening of the 27th, The Doors were playing the San Francisco Winterland.
At a point in their set manager Bill Siddons wheeled a TV onto the stage and the band take a break sitting with their backs to the audience and watch their segment of the show.
The Doors were masters of the long pause during songs but this was really taking the piss.
The audience just sat calmly awaiting the band to turn to them and restart the show.
There neither was or is a rock band who could get away with that other than The Doors.Remember it was Robby’s job to keep an eye on the TV for our appearance, since he had the best angle to see the screen? We started the set with our usual, “Break On Through,” and then in the middle of the second song of our set, “Back Door Man,” we appeared on the TV screen on the Jonathan Winters Show! I got up immediately and walked around the drums, turned up the sound on the set, and sat down on the floor of the stage facing the TV. As the live song petered out, you and Ray and Robby joined me on the floor in front of the set with our backs to the audience of several thousand people. Our TV performance was rather subdued until the end, when you freaked out.
We turned the TV off, went back to our instruments, and started playing “Back Door Man” from the middle of the song where we’d left off. I’m sure most of the Winter/and audience thought we were out of our minds. It sure was fun, sometimes. You weren’t too stoned that night, we were on as a band, and everything else was forgivable when we were tight. Well, almost everything….
John Densmore 'Riders On The Storm'.
 These are interesting photo. Obviously during Moonlight Drive but in the broadcast version Jim takes off his sunglasses and holds then in his left hand. The first one is obviously inverted but in neither can we see Jim's shades in his left hand.
Could this be a rehearsal or soundcheck?“We were playing a show in San Francisco when this show was first broadcast. We wanted to see it, so we brought a TV out on the stage with us. We’re playing along, third or fourth song, Robby looks at his watch, and we stopped, turned the TV on, sat down on the stage with our backs to the audience and we watched our performance. The audience thought we were nuts.John DensmoreMoonlight DriveBoth Ray and John are seen leaking dry ice which gives a nice effect to Moonlight Drive.
It is interesting that they choose this over People Are Strange which had been a Top #20 hit a few weeks before.    Light My FireDuring Light My Fire Winter's technicians get a bit carried away with the ripples and red filters so LMF
is not as well presented as Moonlight Drive.
Nontheless it is a pretty good live version.   
“Jonathan Winters was hilarious. We all loved him. After the show Jonathan came out and did a comedy routine for the crowd. After an hour some people left. He kept going for another hour and more people left. Eventually it was just us. He was so fucking funny, and so cool. We got our own private show.”Robby Krieger
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Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Oct 8, 2023 10:49:58 GMT
4th December 1967: The Jonathan Winters Show CBS TV Stage 43 Los Angeles CA  CBS Press Release December 6th December 1967  23-12-1967 The Press & Sun-Bulletin, Binghamton NY  TV Guide December 1967  23-12-1967 Press Democrat, Santa Rosa CA  Phoenix AZ TV Guide December 1967
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