[net.music] What did he say?

sra@hocda.UUCP (S.ABBOT) (09/16/83)

I have also heard "stronger than dirt" at the end of "Touch Me".  It must
be from the old Ajax laundry detergent commercials of the sixties, where
they showed a white knight riding around town.  I don't remember all of the
words of the jingle, but it closed with "stronger than dirt".

Another interesting task is trying to figure out what the first few lines
of "L. A. Woman" are (or all of them for that matter) without looking up
the lyrics.  Morrison's voice was so far gone by then that the producer
said it would have to be their last album.

Most of the their lyrics are in the book "No One Gets Out of Here Alive",
still in print.  It also mentions a few censored songs, such as "Break
On Through", where the chorus goes:
	She gets
	she gets
	she gets  ....  ooooooh
where they deleted "high" after each "gets".  They left part of it intact
in the live album.  Also, in "The End", Morrison says
	Father
	Yes son
	I want to kill you
	Mother, I want to
	Aaaaauuuuuggghhhhhhh
where they deleted "f*** you" after "I want to".  There is another story in
the book of when the Doors went on the Ed Sullivan show.  It seems the
producer didn't like the line "Girl we couldn't get much higher" in
"Light My Fire".  As the story goes, he asked them if they wouldn't mind
changing that line to something less objectionable, so the said they would
and kind of grinned at each other.  All during the rehearsals they sang
it with the new line, but when the did the show (live, of course), they
went back to the old line.  During the commercial break,the producer goes
running at stage screaming "You weren't supposed to do that!!!"  Morrison's
reply was "Gee, in all the excitement we just forgot."  Needless to say,
that was the last time they were on the Ed Sullivan Show, and they tended
to book more "conventional" acts, like The Fifth Dimension and Spanky
and Our Gang.  The producer, by the way, was Sullivan's son-in-law.

They don't make groups like that any more...

					Scott Abbot
					Bell Labs, Merrimack Valley
					hocda!sra  or  mvuxb!sa

rab@cdcvax.UUCP (Roger Bielefeld) (09/23/83)

I don't remember The Doors being on Ed Sullivan (although I
had the good fortune to see them put on a tremendous show
live back in '68).  But I do remember seeing those masters
of marketing, The Rolling Stones, singing "Let's Spend Some
Time Together" on Sullivan's show.  Some people just have
no scruples.

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