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"Back Door Man" is a blues song written by American musician Willie Dixon and recorded by Howlin' Wolf in 1960. The lyrics draw on a Southern U.S. cultural term for an extramarital affair. The song is one of several Dixon-Wolf songs that became popular among rock musicians, including the Doors who recorded it for their 1967 self-titled debut album.
The Doors: A Tribute to Jim Morrison (1981) The Doors: Dance on Fire (1985) The Soft Parade, a Retrospective (1991) The Doors: No One Here Gets Out Alive (2001) Final 24: Jim Morrison (2007), The Biography Channel [234] When You're Strange (2009), Won the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Video in 2011. Rock Poet: Jim Morrison (2010) [235]
The album's title is a reference to blues musician Willie Dixon's song "Back Door Man", [1] which has the lyrics: "I'm a back door man. The men don't know, but the little girls understand." [5] Recording was done at MCA-Whitney Studios in Glendale, [6] where Mike Chapman—credited as "Commander" Chapman—produced the album.
L.A. Woman is the sixth studio album by the American rock band the Doors, released on April 19, 1971, by Elektra Records.It is the last to feature lead singer Jim Morrison during his lifetime, due to his death exactly two months and two weeks following the album's release, though he would posthumously appear on the 1978 album An American Prayer.
The Doors made a steady climb up the Billboard 200, ultimately becoming a huge success in the US once the edited single version of "Light My Fire" scaled the charts to become No. 1, with the album peaking at No. 2 on the chart in September 1967 (kept off the top stop by the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band) and going on to achieve ...
According to music journalist Stephen Davis, the lyrics "When the music's over, turn out the lights" originated from a comment made by the owner of the London Fog, a Los Angeles music venue where the Doors played late at night. [11] Davis also points out that the passage starting with the line "what have they done to the Earth?"
Also known as "Follow Me Down" due to the use of the phrase, [4] it was the third single from the Doors' fourth album The Soft Parade. The song's instrumentation incorporates brass instruments and other orchestral instruments. [5] In the US, "Tell All the People" reached No. 57 on the Billboard Hot 100 charts and No. 33 on the Cash Box Top 100 ...
"Love Me Two Times" is a song by the American rock band the Doors. First appearing on their second studio album Strange Days, it was later edited to a 2:37 length and released as the second single (after "People Are Strange") from that album.