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"The Door Is Still Open to My Heart" is a 1955 song written by Chuck Willis and originally performed by the Baltimore-based R&B vocal group, The Cardinals. In the US, the original version peaked at number four on the R&B playlist and number ten in R&B sales charts. [ 1 ]
Robby Krieger was born on January 8, 1946, in Los Angeles, California, to a Jewish family. [5] [6] His father, Stuart "Stu" Krieger, was an engineer and was a fan of classical music, while his mother, Marilyn Ann (née Shapiro), enjoyed "Frank Sinatra and stuff like that".
For the first time on a Doors album, all the songs on The Soft Parade had individual songwriter credits. [3] Previously, all songs had been credited to the entire group. This change was instigated by Jim Morrison , who did not want to be held responsible for the lyrics of "Tell All the People", which includes a line encouraging listeners to ...
"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 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]
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The Doors FAQ author Richie Weidman declared "Hyacinth House" as "one of the strangest Doors' songs ever recorded". [5] Critic Ryan Leas of Stereogum, who ranked L.A. Woman the second best Doors album, praised "Hyacinth House" as "secretly one of the Doors' finest songs" and that it "still fits into the universe of L.A. Woman". [13]
"I remember opening up the L.A. Times, and there was this writer who wrote a letter: 'Dear God, stop putting Ben Stiller in comedies,'" Stiller recalled. "I was just like, I don’t know, I’m ...