In 1968, the Doors actually turned down a massive offer from Buick to use the song in a TV commercial. And Jim is going, 'No TV set while we're recording. The TV bounced off the window, hit the floor, sputtered for a few minutes and died. Rothchild and Botnick had the most fearful look on their faces. I saw Jim go over to the TV, pick it up and throw it at the (studio control room) window. Manzarek told Mojo magazine that there came a point when Morrison simply went berserk: "Everything went into slow motion, like a cartoon.
Manzarek remembered that producer Paul Rothchild and engineer Bruce Botnick had rigged a TV set to play silently facing them in the studio, so the pair could catch a bit of that night's Dodgers game while recording the band. Back in 2010, the now-late Ray Manzarek recalled the "Lizard King" losing his cool on August 21st, 1966 during the Doors' session for "Light My Fire" at Hollywood's Sunset Sound Recorders. and the beat was John (Densmore's) idea."Īlthough Jim Morrison's in-concert antics have become the stuff of rock legend, many of his outbursts during the Doors' recording sessions have been kept quiet over the years. The song, which ended the Association's month-long dominance of the Billboard Hot 100 with the soft pop of "Windy," was ultimately knocked out of the top spot by the Beatles' own classic "Summer Of Love" anthem, "All You Need Is Love." Robby Krieger recalled how the band-credited "Light My Fire" came to be composed, telling Billboard's Fred Bronson, "Ray had the idea fore the opening, part, which was the real hook. When the group performed "Light My Fire" on The Ed Sullivan Show on September 17th, 1967, they were asked to change the line "girl we couldn't get much higher." The band agreed, but when they went onstage, Morrison went ahead and sang the line anyway. Upon its initial release, the Doors' "Light My Fire" sold over a million copies and scored Elektra Records its first Number One single.
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Although the 2:52 single version of the track, which was edited from the 7:02 album version, was created specifically for the AM market - many stations decided to spin the full version with keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger's sprawling solos. It was 55 years ago today (July 29th, 1967) that the Doors' breakthrough hit "Light My Fire" began its three-week run at Number One, launching the Southern California band internationally and immortalizing the band's iconic frontman, Jim Morrison.
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