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"The Soft Parade" is a song composed by the American rock group the Doors, though credited to lead singer Jim Morrison only. [4] It was recorded for their fourth studio album, also titled The Soft Parade (1969), appearing as the closing track.
"The End" is an epic song by the American rock band the Doors. Lead singer Jim Morrison initially wrote the lyrics about his break up with an ex-girlfriend, Mary Werbelow, [7] but it evolved through months of performances at the Whisky a Go Go into a much longer song.
The song is the title track of their 1971 album L.A. Woman, the final album to feature Jim Morrison before his death on July 3, 1971. In 2014, LA Weekly named it the all-time best song written about the city of Los Angeles. [3] In 1985, fourteen years after Morrison's death, Ray Manzarek directed [4] and Rick Schmidlin produced a music video ...
On the other hand, Morrison, who did not write most songs using an instrument, would come up with vocal melodies for his own lyrics, with the other band members contributing chords and rhythm. [45] Morrison did not play an instrument live (except for maracas and tambourine for most shows, and harmonica on a few occasions) or in the studio ...
Morrison asserted that the song's lyrics are not political. [2] Part of the song ("Your ballroom days are over, baby/ Night is drawing near/ Shadows of the evening/ crawl across the years"), was seemingly lifted from the 19th-century hymnal and bedtime rhyme "Now the Day Is Over" ("Now the day is over/ Night is drawing nigh/ Shadows of the evening/ Steal across the sky") by Morrison. [10]
"The Crystal Ship" is a song by American rock band the Doors, from their 1967 debut album The Doors, and the B-side of the number-one hit single "Light My Fire". It was composed as a love song to Jim Morrison's first serious girlfriend, Mary Werbelow, shortly after their relationship ended. The song borrows from elements from baroque music. [2]
The song is notated in the key of A Major with Jim Morrison's vocal range spanning from E 4 to A 5. [5] It has a Dorian alternation of i and IV. [6] Like the other songs from their debut album, the songwriting credit was given to each members of the Doors; [3] the performance rights organization ASCAP list the song as a group composition.