Greatest Hits (The Doors album)

Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by The Doors
Released	October 1980 (Vinyl LP) October 15, 1996 (CD)
Recorded	1966-1971
Genre	Psychedelic rock, acid rock, blues rock, hard rock
Length	48:10 (1980 version) 55:57 (1996 version)
Label	Elektra
Producer	Paul A. Rothchild, Bruce Botnick, The Doors
The Doors chronology
An American Prayer (1978) Greatest Hits (1980) Alive, She Cried (1983)

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Greatest Hits is a compilation album by The Doors, released in 1980. The album, along with the film Apocalypse Now, released the previous year, created an entirely new audience which was too young to have remembered the band years before. The album went on to become one of the highest selling compilations of all time, with combined cd and vinyl sales of 5,000,000 in the United States alone.

The album was re-released in 1996 as an enhanced CD with a different track listing and cover art. On the 1996 release, the songs "The Ghost Song", "The End" and "Love Her Madly" were added, whereas "Not to Touch the Earth" was omitted.

1980 Vinyl LP and cassette track listing

Side one

• All songs written by The Doors (John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Jim Morrison) except where noted.

1. "Hello, I Love You" (Jim Morrison)
2. "Light My Fire" (Robby Krieger)
3. "People Are Strange" (Morrison, Krieger)
4. "Love Me Two Times" (Krieger)
5. "Riders on the Storm"

Side two

1. "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" (Morrison)
2. "Roadhouse Blues" (Morrison)
3. "Not to Touch the Earth" (Morrison)
4. "Touch Me" (Krieger)
5. "L.A. Woman" (Morrison)

1996 CD track listing

1. "Hello, I Love You" (Morrison) – 2:12
2. "Light My Fire" (Krieger) – 7:05
3. "People Are Strange" (Morrison, Krieger) – 2:09
4. "Love Me Two Times" (Krieger) – 3:14
5. "Riders on the Storm" – 7:09
6. "Break On Through (To the Other Side)" (Morrison) – 2:26
7. "Roadhouse Blues" (live) (Morrison) – 6:14
8. "Touch Me" (Krieger) – 3:10
9. "L.A. Woman" (Morrison) – 7:47
10. "Love Her Madly" (Krieger) – 3:17
11. "The Ghost Song" (Morrison) – 4:13
12. "The End" – 6:28 (edited version for George S. Clinton from Apocalypse Now (1979))

Note: Japanese version of this CD has 13 tracks : Track 13 "Wintertime Love".

Personnel

• Robby Krieger – guitar
• Jim Morrison – vocals
• Ray Manzarek – keyboards and backing vocals
• John Densmore – drums

Additional musicians

• Curtis Amy – saxophone on track 8 (CD)/track 9 (vinyl)
• Jerry Scheff – bass guitar on tracks 5 & 9-11
• Douglass Lubahn – bass guitar on tracks 1 & 3-4 (CD); tracks 1, 3-4, & 8 (vinyl)
• Marc Benno – rhythm guitar on track 10 (vinyl)/track 9 (CD)
• Larry Knechtel – bass guitar on track 2 (both formats) (was uncredited as such, however)
• Harvey Brooks – bass guitar on track 8 (CD)/track 9 (vinyl)
• Curtis Amy – saxophone solo on track 8 (CD)/track 9 (vinyl)
• George Bohanan – trombone
• Jesse McReynolds – mandolin
• Paul Harris – orchestral arrangements on track 8 (CD)/track 9 (vinyl)

Other personnel

• Joel Brodsky – photography
• Ron Coro – original art direction
• Ray and Dorothy Manzarek, Ron Coro, Denise Minobe – original album design

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