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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".
Touch Me (The Doors song) Treetrunk (song) Twentieth Century Fox (song) U. Unhappy Girl; The Unknown Soldier (song) W. The WASP (Texas Radio and the Big Beat)
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 ...
The Doors was ranked No. 42 on Rolling Stone's list of "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time". [97] When the list was revised in 2020, the album was repositioned at No. 86. [98] Two of the album's songs, "Light My Fire" and "The End", were also present on Rolling Stone ' s 2004 list "The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". [99]
Surprisingly, she was still unsigned at the time, and the track gave her the distinction of being the first independent artist to land at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
The refrain of this song is lifted from a 1947 number one hit by Count Basie, "Open the Door, Richard"—which is what Dylan actually sings in his chorus. That song was based on a 1919 vaudeville skit by Harlem comic John Mason, so, as Griffin puts it, "this is a nonsense song based on a nonsense song". [ 58 ]
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