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 RAY MANZAREK, ROBBY KRIEGER, JIM MORRISON, JOHN DENSMORE

The Doors, one of the most influential and controversial rock bands of the 1960s, 

were formed in Los Angeles in 1965 by UCLA film students Ray Manzarek, keyboards, 

and Jim Morrison, vocals; with drummer John Densmore and guitarist Robby Krieger. 

The group never added a bass player, and their sound was dominated by Manzarek's electric organ work 

and Morrison's deep, sonorous voice, with which he sang and intoned his highly poetic lyrics

"THE DOORS"

Produced by Paul A. Rothchild      Production Supervisor Jack Holzman

Engineering Bruce Botnick, Sunset Sound Recorders, Hollywood

1967     LP     ELEKTRA RECORDS      EKL-4007  MONO

MADE IN ENGLAND    ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING

HEAVY DUTY CARDBOARD COVER  PRINTED IN U.S.A.

original UK mono pressing in the US printed sleeve EKL 4007 

(early Elektra UK pressings are often housed in matt covers printed in US). 

(many initial UK pressings on the Elektra label 66-67 were housed in US sleeves)

Barcode and Other Identifiers

LABEL:  ELEKTRA -  ORANGE ROUGH LABEL - BLACK TEXT

Catalog on cover: (front, rear & spine) EKL-4007      

Catalog on labels: EKL 4007-A / EKL 4007-B

Matrix / Runout (Side A, Etched): EKL 4007A   \ (COL)

Matrix / Runout (Side B, Etched): EKL-4007B   \ (COL)

On back cover: Words & music to all songs by The Doors (unless otherwise indicated)

© Copyright Nipper Music ASCAP

Produced by Paul A. Rotchild   Production Supervisor - Jac Holzman

Engineering - Bruce Botnick, Sunset Sound Recorders, Hollywood

Front Cover Photo - Guy Webster    Back Cover Photo - Joel Brodsky

Art Direction & Design - William S. Harvey

Printed in U.S.A.

ELEKTRA RECORDS 1855 Broadway - New York, N.Y. 10019 - 2, Dean Street - London W.1

On Spine: The DOORS     ELEKTRA RECORDS     EKL-4007 (mono)

On labels: upper rim text reads 'All rights of the manufacturers..........prohibited'

lower rim text reads ' Polydor Records Limited'

Rights Society: M.C.P.S.

Recording first published 1967

Words & music to all songs by The Doors (unless otherwise indicated)

Made in Gt. Britain

from my records collection

tracklisting

Side A: BREAK ON THROUGH (To The Other Side) - SOUL KITCHEN

THE CRYSTAL SHIP - TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX

ALABAMA SONG (Whisky Bar) - LIGHT MY FIRE

Side B: BACK DOOR MAN - I LOOKED AT YOU - END OF THE NIGHT

TAKE IT AS IT COMES - THE END

  grading

RECORD  from VG to VG(+) (please, read above description)

SLEEVE VG(+) (please, see pictures and read above description)

A tremendous debut album, and indeed one of the best first-time outings in rock history, 

introducing the band's fusion of rock, blues, classical, jazz, and poetry with a knock-out punch. 

The lean, spidery guitar and organ riffs interweave with a hypnotic menace, providing a seductive backdrop 

for Jim Morrison's captivating vocals and probing prose. "Light My Fire" was the cut that topped the charts 

and established the group as stars, but most of the rest of the album is just as impressive, 

including some of their best songs: the propulsive "Break on Through" (their first single), 

the beguiling Oriental mystery of "The Crystal Ship," the mysterious "End of the Night," "Take It as It Comes", 

and the stomping rock of "Soul Kitchen" and "Twentieth Century Fox." 

The 11-minute Oedipal drama "The End" was the group at its most daring and, some would contend, overambitious. 

It was nonetheless a haunting cap to an album whose nonstop melodicism and dynamic tension

 would never be equaled by the group again, let alone bettered...(AllMusic)