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"Bent" is a song by American alternative rock band Matchbox Twenty. The rock ballad [ 1 ] was shipped to radio on April 17, 2000, as the lead single from their second album, Mad Season . "Bent" became the band's first and only song to top the US Billboard Hot 100 , reaching number one on the chart dated July 22, 2000.
"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".
"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. [5]
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]
Ben Stiller put Lisa Loeb's song "Stay (I Missed You)" in his movie Reality Bites. (Photo: Everett Collection, Getty Images)
The Doors is the debut studio album by the American rock band the Doors, released on January 4, 1967, by Elektra Records. It was recorded in August and September 1966 at Sunset Sound Recorders , in Hollywood, California, under the production of Paul A. Rothchild .
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 chart. [6] [7] The US single release of the song contains a longer fade-out and runs few seconds longer than the album version as a ...