Post by TheWallsScreamedPoetry on Jul 30, 2024 17:26:04 GMT
After Break On Through not troubling the charts The Doors put out a follow up in May 1967 of their version of Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) backed with Take It As It Comes.
It's hard to understand the bands thinking of this release but fortunately the local radio stations were asking for a shorter version of Light My Fire and this was achieved by losing the solos.
This version was put out and started to chip away at charts around the states until it was #1 and their second single release was forgotten.
We know it was released in the US on May 1967 and it turned up in both the UK and France and likely other markets.
Not surprisingly it failed to chart and was wiped from Doors History but vinyl copies still appear to remind The Doors of their mistakes.
UK May 1967
“Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)” was originally written by German playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill for the 1930 opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.
Ray Manzarek’s future wife Dorothy suggested “Alabama Song” to The Doors as a song they should cover in their own style.
France May 1967
It's hard to understand the bands thinking of this release but fortunately the local radio stations were asking for a shorter version of Light My Fire and this was achieved by losing the solos.
This version was put out and started to chip away at charts around the states until it was #1 and their second single release was forgotten.
We know it was released in the US on May 1967 and it turned up in both the UK and France and likely other markets.
Not surprisingly it failed to chart and was wiped from Doors History but vinyl copies still appear to remind The Doors of their mistakes.
UK May 1967
“Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)” was originally written by German playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill for the 1930 opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.
Ray Manzarek’s future wife Dorothy suggested “Alabama Song” to The Doors as a song they should cover in their own style.
France May 1967