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Morrison Hotel is the fifth studio album by American rock band the Doors, released on February 9, 1970, by Elektra Records.After the use of brass and string arrangements recommended by producer Paul A. Rothchild on their previous album, The Soft Parade (1969), the Doors returned to their blues rock style and this album was largely seen as a return to form for the band.
The use of the Doors song "The End", from their debut album, in the popular Vietnam War film, Apocalypse Now in 1979 and the release of the first compilation album in seven years, Greatest Hits, released in the fall of 1980, created a resurgence in the Doors. Due to those two events, an entirely new audience, too young to have known of the band ...
Since the single acquired only minor recognition, the band turned to "Light My Fire"; it became the first single from Elektra Records to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, selling over one million copies. [36] From March 7 to 11, 1967, the Doors performed at the Matrix Club in San Francisco. The March 7 and 10 shows were ...
"Break On Through (To the Other Side)" is a song by the American rock band the Doors. It is the opening track of their debut album, The Doors (1967). Elektra Records issued the song as the group's first single, which reached number 126 [3] in the United States. Despite the single's failure to impact the record sales charts, the song became a ...
Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine is the second compilation album by American rock band the Doors (following 13) and the first following the death of singer Jim Morrison.A double album, it was released in January 1972.
The lyrics also reference Redding's song "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay."[7] Music critic Bart Testa found it ironic that this Doors song was extolling "The Dock of the Bay", which for Redding was a place of defeat and "where he wasted time having found the struggle for life useless", when earlier Doors songs such as "The End" and "When the Music's Over" call vehemently for revolution. [7]
Nashville notation or Nashville Number System [2] is a method of writing, or sketching out, musical ideas, using numbers in place of chord names. For example, in the key of C major, the chord D minor seventh can be written as "2− 7", "2m 7", or "ii 7". "The musicians in Nashville use the Nashville Number System almost exclusively for ...
The Doors: No One Here Gets Out Alive (2001) Final 24: Jim Morrison (2007), The Biography Channel [239] When You're Strange (2009), Won the Grammy Award for Best Long Form Video in 2011. Rock Poet: Jim Morrison (2010) [240] Morrison's Mustang – A Vision Quest to Find The Blue Lady (2011, in production) Mr. Mojo Risin': The Story of L.A. Woman ...