Tuesday Tunes - The Doors - Riders On The Storm

 The Doors - Riders On The Storm - Extended Remastered Version

'Riders On The Storm' by the Doors. This extended remastered version was taken from the WJGroup Files and combines the original 1971 2-Channel stereo version from their LA Woman album with the 4-channel Discrete version from the old Quadraphonic 8 Track version where there are 4 distinct discrete Channels. Combining the 4 Discrete Channel Version, and the 2- channel Stereo version produced an much enhanced digital version where the backgrounds sounds are much clearly heard, and some have never been heard before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZT_OxPRmSw&pbjreload=10

 The Doors - Kamala’s a ‘Big Fat Liar’ (Light My Fire)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufG0WC2Osuo&t=252s

 On This Date In Music

1967 - The Doors' first single, "Break On Through (To The Other Side)," hits a wall, stalling at No. 126 in the US. Their next release, "Light My Fire," does much better, going to No. 1.

1975 - Aerosmith released their third studio album Toys In The Attic. The album is their most commercially successful in the US, with eight million copies sold and features the hit 'Walk This Way' which peaked at No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1977 when re-released and was one of the songs that helped break Aerosmith into the mainstream in the seventies.

 

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I didn't have any exceptional musical events for today so I'm posting this Doors extended and remastered version of Riders On The Storm. The music is exceptional but whoever did the video had never heard the song, it has no relevance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZT_OxPRmSw&pbjreload=10

Got to thinking about it and decided to go ahead and post this one too. I like the Vietnam footage along with this tune.

The Doors - Riders on the Storm (Vietnam Footage)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5v1KHHre-8g

 On This Date In Music

1967 - The Beatles release "Strawberry Fields Forever" as a single in the US, with "Penny Lane" on the flip side.

1969 - The Doors' "Touch Me" is certified gold.

1970 - Black Sabbath release their self-titled debut album, which not coincidentally, comes out on Friday the 13th. To add mystique to the band's image, new manager Patrick Meehan asks the band to stop giving interviews. The plan works, and through word of mouth, the album sell over 5,000 copies in the first week. The first single, "Evil Woman," doesn't chart, but the album reaches #8 in the UK.

1975 - Jefferson Starship records "Miracles."

 

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1968 - The Doors' album Strange Days is certified gold.

 

 

 

1969 - Led Zeppelin's debut album was released in the UK and America. Recorded at Olympic Studios in Barnes, London, the album took only about 36 hours of studio time to complete at a cost of just $2,423, most of the tracks being recorded 'live' in the studio with very few overdubs. The album spent a total of 71 weeks on the UK chart.

1974 - The Steve Miller Band were at No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'The Joker', the group's first of three No. 1's.

 

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1967 - The Doors released their self-titled debut album The Doors. The album features their breakthrough single 'Light My Fire' and the lengthy song 'The End' with its Oedipal spoken word section. The album was recorded at Sunset Sound Studios in Hollywood, California over six days and unique packaging of the album included each band members bio.

1975 - Elton John's "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds" hits No. 1 in the US. The Beatles' original, released in 1967 on the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, wasn't released as a single.

 

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1940 - Broadcasting from the Empire State Building in New York City, radio station W2XDG, the first FM station licensed by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission, became the first to broadcast with the new Frequency Modulation technology.

In 1940, the first commercial FM station appeared on the Empire, RCA / NBC’s W2XWG, (later WNBC-FM and today’s WQHT)

1956 - Bill Haley's 'Rock Around the Clock' went to No. 1 on the singles chart for the second time. The single is often cited as the biggest-selling vinyl rock and roll single of all time with sales over 25m.

1956 - Carl Perkins releases "Blue Suede Shoes."

1959 - Johnny Cash played a free concert for the inmates of San Quentin Prison, California. One of the audience members was 19 year-old Merle Haggard, who was in the midst of a 15 year sentence (he served three years) for grand theft auto and armed robbery.

1966 - Simon And Garfunkel started a two week run at No. 1 on the US singles chart with 'The Sounds Of Silence’.

1967 - The Doors made their first live television appearance lip-synching their first single 'Break on Through' on Shebang, KTLA-TV Channel 5 in Los Angeles. The single peaked No. 126 on the US chart mainly due to lack of airplay after censors objected to the drug use implied by the line "she gets high", which is repeated in the middle section of the song.

1968 - The Berkeley, California, swamp-rockers The Golliwogs change their name to Creedence Clearwater Revival.

 The Golliwogs before they became Creedence Clearwater Revival

1990 - The Clearwater, Florida, radio station WKRL becomes the first "All Led Zeppelin" station, kicking off the format flip with 24 straight hours of "Stairway To Heaven." The all-Zep rotation lasts two weeks, after which they become more of a traditional Classic Rock station and they also switch their call letters to WXTB.