"LIGHT MY FIRE" ● The Doors

THE DOORS / Jim Morrison - Elektra Records - Photo Courtesy of the Doors Illustrated History 1987 / IVOX MEDIA collection

"LIGHT MY FIRE" ● The Doors

The Song● Light My Fire

Writers● Jim Morrison and Ray Manzarek

Producers● Paul A. Rothchild

Recorded● Late 1966

Released● April 1967

Players●
:: Jim Morrison--vocals
:: Ray Manzarek--organ
:: Robby Krieger--guitar
:: John Densmore--drums

Album● The Doors (Elektra, 1967)

Also On●
:: Greatest Hits (Elektra, 1980)
:: The Best Of The Doors (Elektra, 1985) and other compilations and live albums

The Doors ● The Doors

The Doors is the debut studio of The Doors, released on January 4, 1967, by Elektra Records. It was recorded in August 1966 at Sunset Sound Recorders, in Hollywood, California, under the production of Paul A. Rothchild. The album features the extended version of the band's breakthrough single "Light My Fire". The Doors album is considered one of the greatest debut albums of all time.

The Doors' "Light My Fire" single was severely shorter than the original album version. At the time, a single that ran six minutes and 50 seconds was considered far too lengthy.

The song topped the pop chart for the first of three weeks in July 1967, and sold over a million copies. Long before Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, and Who songs were used in advertisements, the Doors actually turned down an offer of $50,000 to use "Light My Fire" in a car ad.

Morrison was more or less disowned by his parents, with whom he had a strained relationship (especially his U.S. Navy officer father), so much so that his body was buried in Paris, France, where he died.

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