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. decvax!cwruecmp!cdcvax!rab