The Doors - Light My Fire - 45 RPM - ORIGINAL MONO MIX - First Pressing

[kaorurocks]

nice record man!

[LVCrocky]

morrison was the man!

[buriedinvinyl]

Damn styrene 45's....

[LVCrocky]

come on baby bite my wire denise/leslie/missy

[Chitchatjf2]

They could had put the LP track version on the B side.

[MichaelHansenFUN]

robby wrote the song, jim helped with the lyrics, john came up with the drums, and ray came up with the intro...

[99strange]

99 thinks you are a fraud.

[WABCRADIO77]

How?

[Kevin2011kefs]

¡Viva el Rey Lagarto!

[stillayl]

He's not dead you buzzards.:)

[Mark5W8Comer]

Oh, but that long organ bridge is soooo nice in the long version! Hot record!

[apeshitdig]

@Mark5W8Comer Yeah they had to edit it to fit it on the 45 record

[boringgrass]

thanks!!

[wildbilltexas]

The biggest reason why this 45 sounds so HOT is the Doors first album was one of the first to use the Dolby noise reduction system, which boosts and compresses the high frequencies while recording. On playback the system filters out some of the high frequencies, lowering the tape hiss. But when Bruce Botnick edited and mastered the single mix, he turned off the Dolby and added more compression so it would "cut" through AM radio.

[mariludiniz]

D++++++++++++++++++ amoooooo

[LVCrocky]

GREAT SONG MORRISON ON OF THE BEST EVER DENISE10/LESLIE9/MISSY8 MY RATING SYSTEM GEATOR/JERRY BLAVATT GREAT DJ NO MOBSTER MICHAEL FRANZESE STILL WAITING?

[Jim71Morrison1]

@LVCrocky Jim Didn't write this song Robby did! the only lyrics Jim Morrison wrote was try now we can only lose and love become a funeral pyre

[Jim71Morrison1]

@Jim71Morrison1 I mean try now we can only lose and our love becomes a funeral pyre

[hymencow]

best version



[Jim71Morrison1]

@hymencow no it's not

[kingsergio128]

beautiful song

[CordStudios]

195 likes and 2 dislikes. I think it's safe to say we all love it :) (most of us anyway)

[salchst]

I had forgotten how this version sounded. It's actually distorted a bit (obviously recorded like that on purpose), but that kinda makes it sound cool. AHA, that's the secret to making a hit 45, overdrive the record level!

[davisotj1]

nice record player, better than mine

[imfree707]

Woo! Extra nice!!! You corrected that excessive gain and this record started nice and clean. Excellent work!

[babyfacedstar]

AMAZING. just. AMAZING.

[hankhayes]

You just can't beat the original mono mix. The drums sound awesome!

[Johnpjm]

I have to say, your videos are probably the coolest on YouTube! I envy your collection, and your taste in music is amazing! Keep at er'! :D

[wfarrar69]

a rock classic.makes me wonder what this 45 be like with the full version on it

[RockinEd]

@wfarrar69 they recently reissued it with both versions on the 45

[TheAnimaBeatle]

The first song I ever heard by the Doors was Light My Fire, and it was a complete turn on because my girlfriend showed it to me!

[SteveCarras]

I have the single uploaded from SoulSeek. Also Magic Carpet Ride by Steppenwolf (originally from The 60s Show with Bob Radil and then uploaded to my com puter library, then burned on CD and then despite having to repair the damn machine, reloaded back. Also from elsehwere: Born to be WIld by Steppenwolf, Chicago's Beginnings, promo edits of WIngs's Junior's Farm and Band on the Run and PG&E's Are You Ready, all rare singles.

[TheGuitarpro3]

AGAIN.....not jim morrison

[andresr1995]

the only thing i miss is rays solo but its still great

[vasdeferensify]

Sounds even better like this! Screw digital music!!!

[eleduxnamaspo]

a goood song :$

[eleduxnamaspo]

quien es la unica persona qlia que no le gusta la cancion weon no tiene gusto 77

[fatcatbuzz]

I think there's more reverb on the mono mix.

[peacewolfwm]

thank you for posting this. I have been waiting for it. Mono sounds great. It is a bit faster; more drive.

[anticochon1]

@peacewolfwm come on babylight my wire

[sonicsteev]

no time to hesitate to thru!

[SteveCarras]

This is a faster, mono mix at 2min52sec. Getting that aside, the 3 edit point predating the 1 edit point (@3min6secon) stereo, faster) could just easily either be done by two copies of the 7 minute long original, and making the same 4-minute edit, or as the original hit was mono in a pre-1976 era, MAYBE the slightly longer being the first group of records pressed, prior to this faster edit, and it was just after the 1967 success that the fuller 3 minute mix appeared on reissues.

[SteveCarras]

@SteveCarras

(This is an additional comment)

By the way, note I have stressed length references as such, NOT as timepoints in the video.:-)

Oh, and to put the second, in a nutshell, from my last post, in regard to the famous small edits: Putting all

my eggs into one basket, I will just say that Light My Fire was in stereo and slightly longer too early even at 3 inutes so it was a shortened a bit for its initial release and the unedited discs of Light My Fire got onto the reissues.

[Thejbirdy]

Sensational....thank you for this.

[tatethompson1234]

Ive never smoked pot in my life, but I imagine listening to this song gives the same feeling. I just look track of what im doing and go into a Doors trance.

[Musicev11111]

Brilliant Stuff Love just sitting here watching the records go round and wot sound!!

What deck is that I want one!!

[THEBTRFANCLUB]

i love this song where did you get this song from.

[darbocity]

awesome

[ferromiami]

Awesome!! Sound:)

[SuperJAS28]

QUE HERMOSOS TIEMPOS  CUANDO CARGABAMOS LOS ASETATOS!!!!!!!!!!

[kennytheamazing]

is there a way you could provide us with an mp3 recording of this version, instead of filming the record playing? I fear youtube wrecked the quality a bit.

[WCPR1620AM]

"HitsTownUSA" also has the promo 12" of that song with the live version on the flip. The promo 12" does contain the original single version rather than the LP version.

[swstuhr]

Sounds so much better than MP3



[rfsent5]

@swstuhr, that's an illusion many people have. Also, you're hearing it after it's been compressed as an mp3 or very similar audio layer within a video, playing off of youtube. So it's basically the same thing.

[pollacaix]

INCREIBLE!!!



[T0MPERRY]

Got to say, this is my favourite version of the song. Very punchy.

[mrceleb2006]

Classic rock FM radio stations must have preferred the longer album version instead of this short AM Top 40 version, eh?

[88888Rob]

@mrceleb2006 yes they sure did- -but I really like this tighter up-tempo version. Of course in 1967 I couldn't believe my ears- -too good!

[mrceleb2006]

@88888Rob I prefer the longer album version with the extended instrumental break...nice!

[wraigosa]

God bless the Jim Morrison's soul. RIP

[kennytheamazing]

thanks!

[cbarrett34]

it just has a better single feel here, short and sweet, what every single should be, under 3 minutes, now this is a hit

[seatboi]

Hi! THANKS for all the great records! I play your vids all the time & call it "virtual record player"!. I caught "the bug" & decided to upload some vids of some of MY 45's playing, but about 1/2 keep getting "disabled due to copyright infringement"! Have you ever recieved this warning or had any of your vids disabled? PLEASE let me know as I don't wanna get kicked off Youtube for just playing my records! Check out MY vids & you can see what I mean. The Lion Sleeps Tonight keeps getting erased!

[straight2helll]

That is how it is suppose to sound.

[SirBanuTheFourth]

@straight2helll I'm sorry, but it really isn't.

[cbarrett34]

i love the short version, the long version is great too, but the solos are way too long, i like things short and sweet

[DaveWollenberg]

Billboard's 227th #1 hit of the rock era. God bless! RIP, Jim Morrison.

[aguilacuervo]

Manzarek's keyboards play so colorfully and vivid!! Morrison's vocals feel very alive and full of ragged expression!! Wow, I'm impressed. Now I realize I had never really heard this song before. There was always something very disappointing about the CD versions I've heard, but this... This is something else entirely!! Thank you, Spencer!! And congratulations on what I consider to be the most excellent channel on YouTube I have come across so far. This stuff is genius. Keep up the good work!!

[julian8712]

elegance of composition that I like the sound of the organ and other instruments as pervading

[jameshodgetts1997]

Wow. This is a fantastic record. I forgot about this one. I'll have to buy the 45. :) Thanks for all your videos! they're excellent.

James

[Tdgonline]

Think I recall seeing on some sheet music somewhere the chords of the opening verse: A minor 7-F# minor 7. So Is this the key of the original mono mix?

[jcstriper]

@Tdgonline Yes, Am to F#m..........you are correct!

[IxScoreI]

Nothing beats a record ;)

[Rockstaralan]

Wow! Sounds awesome! And I am also intrigued by what appears to be a rather unusual Elektra label design. Whereas the label design of that period always included the immortal stencil-type 'E' at the top(such as w/the other copy you are holding for sec), this one looks like it has a black and orange color scheme and an Elektra logo with the drawing of a woman. Either way, VERY cool!

[wmbrown6]

The copy played is EXACTLY as I have . . . pressed by Columbia Records in Pitman, NJ, with label copy fonts from that plant . . . and lacquer mastering by Bell Sound in NYC. (West Coast pressings by Monarch Record Mfg., such as one copy played at even higher speed by 'KOSMICKEN09', look like they were mastered at Madison Sound in NYC). The one shown at the start was pressed by Specialty Records Corp. of Olyphant, PA, with label copy type by Keystone Printed Specialties in Scranton, PA.

[WCPR1620AM]

@wmbrown6 Did Disneyland Records ever had labels made by Keystone Printed Specialties in Scranton, PA as well as Progressive Label Co. in Brooklyn, NY and mastered by Audio Matrix and a few others? I checked the Disneyland LP's with the labels and the pressings are much different font types.

[wmbrown6]

@WCPR1620AM - Audio Matrix didn't master anything, they only did the plating. No, the mastering of Disneyland LP's would have been at Sunset Sound - where "Light My Fire" was recorded, B.T.W. Also, both printing companies had way different sets of fonts over the years.

[WCPR1620AM]

@wmbrown6 Thanks for the info. I wonder if I looked at the dead wax on the Disneyland LP's, I have every single Disney LP in my collection, it has the record number on the dead wax, for example "Peter Cottontail" had a dead wax that says "DQ-1234-A" and "DQ-1234-B" with no matrix numbers on it, but it says "44" on the wax. I don't know if it's a later pressing or whatever it is. It was mastered at the same studio where "Light My Fire" and other songs by the Doors was recorded.

[soydebajamexico]

Fuckn awesome!

[YKW762K]

Very beautiful video, compliments! The Doors can play forever. Ciao!

[YKW762K]

You are no beautiful... but MORE!

I like your music.. Thanks!

[acrttdriver]

Ever since I watched this the other day I have been on a mission to find a copy of that on vinyl....fantastic record!!!!

[sjmmrcrdd]

awesome man ... keep it up!!!

[CenaTv2]

I prefer the Shortend Stereo Mix with the added bars, as that's the version i first heard and how i fell in love with it. This one is great too though!

[LarryMcN]

I am 35 and have just got into The Doors. Still, better late than never, eh? Love the song, thanks for the upload.

[spyduke1974]

Grazieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee,­

[tatethompson1234]

I love the single version,im only 19 but my father when he returned from vietnam on his 3rd tour with my mom seen the doors live in boston,also my old science teacher went and my neighbor down the street lol I can't imagine tho in 1967 hearing this for the first time..I would of quit what I was doing for the whole day and just sat next the record player and let is spin all day

[mrmojorisin119]

the sound off the vinyl record is just brilliant i prefer the classic sound and this is the cut version they used for the radio when they first brought it out do you have the full version

[darthripley]

one of my favorite doors songs - sounds amazing here! thanks so much for taking time to make all these videos & upload them for those of us who don't have large record collections.

[japaneseboy47]

sounds way cooler at this speed! thanx 4 the upload.

[anticochon1]

@japaneseboy47 come on baby light my fire

[Stlthpntr]

I've watched some of your videos and they are almost all good.I think you have missed the mark on "Where Were You When I Needed You"...but this "Light My Fire" is a knockout!! I don't think I have heard this version since 1967! After years of listening to my Gold label stereo LP,I'm utterly blown away!! 11 stars!!!

[poachinroaches]

Frigging Awesome! I remember 78's and 45's but this is special.

[MisterEvasion]

Terrific! It's a blast to hear the old AM version - still played today occasionally on the radio and probably more frequently than the album version on FM.

[Beatleberry]

Wow. That's all I can say regarding this record. Thanks once again, Spencer!

[WABCRADIO77]

You're welcome!

Comments like this is what keeps me going!

[Stlthpntr]

@WABCRADIO77

I have had a few S. Reich's through the years...must have had a big collection!

[xperezx7]

girl we couldnt get much higher

[RickybLSD]

what happened to the piano solo?

[Wonka275]

@RickybLSD It's the single version. They cut the solo out so it could get AM airplay.

[Psycho9263]

I have that copy! with that "ELEKTRA" label

[RickenbackerBeatles]

I'm still gonna be cautious about WMG. I might be doing a text video sometime today.

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

At one point, stores TOWER RECORDS had this stuff in the oldies setion. The 45 rpm in Stereo has a few more bars of music in the middle 8, even though it is edited.I have both copies, also may be on ITUNES,... When the song, which is 7 minutes and 5 seconds on the album, was released as a 2-minute 52-second single, i have both versions

[WABCRADIO77]

iTunes DOES have the short version as a "Digital 45", at 2:53 in length. I'm not sure if it is the actual original version, or the version put together years later with the extra bars. I'd have to purchase it from iTunes and compare...

I do have the stereo short version re-issue 45, but it is NOT this mono mix! It also has the extra bars in it.

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

yes exactly

[anticochon1]

@TEMPmichaelhansen Come on baby light my fire, set the night on fire, thus

[mistercaramel]

lovely video, loads of thanks from hong kong !

[SlimeTron5000]

But then you would take the risk of being discovered. Then, your video will be deleted manually, causing you to earn a strike. This is more damaging to your account.

[rslitman]

This was the 2nd song I ever heard by the Doors. The 1st was "Break on Through", which was a fairly decent-sized AM radio hit in the DC area. I was surprised to learn in the 1990s that it hadn't even made the Billboard Hot 100. A group called the Music Machine had had a couple of hits, "Talk Talk" and "The People in Me", and were due for a follow-up, and I thought this was it; it sounded enough like them. But they never did have another single played on DC area Top 40 radio.

[SlimeTron5000]

On the 2007 compilation "The Very Best of the Doors", the song has been remastered to this key / speed.

[TheFRiNgEguitars]

I gotta get me one of these! Hot Mono Mix, yeah!

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

This is the definative HOT MONO MIX,

that you cannot get anywhere else, except from the original vinyl 45 RPM reocord!

well the stereo 45 rpm re issue has some extra music during the "solo" so it is slightly longer (over the years I got a number of copies of htis MONO 45 rpm)

[zman291977]

Do you have any of these your willing to sell? How about down at the local record store you mentioned on another post?

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

mine I cant get to them, because of my fathers illness, i cant do what I used to (even though the store is having a $2.00 sale, they may not have copies) try EBAY, unless you get outbidded...

[zman291977]

@Tempmichael...I've searched on ebay for years looking for a good copy of this girl Elektra label. However, even the poor ones seem to start out over $20. According to Goldmine, a near mint at goes for around $30. Anymore, I think most people on Ebay overprice their records. I'm not going to bid on a crappy copy for over $30 unless it's really a rare find. Guess I'll just keep looking. You can find the Spun Gold repress fairly cheap but it's not in mono.

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

look on ebay NOW!!!

[WABCRADIO77]

On occasion, I will go through my collection and compare records purchased recently (at garage sales) with what is in the collection. If I don't have the record in the collection, the new purchase of course goes right in! If it is a dupe, I compare condition, label variations, etc. If indeed the record is a true dupe, I put the better condition one in my collection, and the less good condition becomes a dupe.

Go to part 2...

[WABCRADIO77]

Part 2

The dupes then go to a few of my friends who collect records for free. They in turn give me their dupes to compare.

Only rarely do I sell my dupes.

The only exception is a horde of records that I purchased at the now defunct Two Guys store in 1980. We bought out the entire 45 dept for just pennies a record! I've got boxes of 45's from 1980. Looking for anything specific?

The record store I purchased many records from is called Jack's Music in Red Bank, NJ. They sell only CD's today.

[zman291977]

@WABC...I stopped collecting 80s 45rpms awhile back just to conserve on my limited space at my apt. However, I do have some lying around here from that decade but not as many as I used to. I've been hunting for mainly 60s and 70s music here lately. Trying to get every top 10 hit. It's been a slow process but getting closer.

[jonmayo15]

This made my day! Thanks!

[MotownMoJo64]

I have been an avid Doors fan for some years, and I have never seen this Electra pressing..The first copy shown, was the one I had..This mono mix puts all the others to shame..Even though Robby was hesitant to have the solo cut out, what a monster of a hit it became...This song will ALWAYS stand the test of time. Thank you Spencer for your insight, and posting this great classic!!!!!!!!

[JeffN727]

That YouTube WMG blog has been posted since September, yet they continue to block videos!

[whopfrog]

@JeffN727 I was able to upload two videos last night that had previously been blocked by Warner, but two others were still blocked.

[rslitman]

One of my subscriptions, NcicHit, has uploaded a few things in the past couple of days that show up in my Subscriptions box, but when I click on them to listen to them, I get the message that WMG has blocked the whole content, not just the audio. I remembered some YouTube announcement about WMG from a while back and had been pleased to read it then, but nothing much had happened since that time. I thought this was a new announcement and got excited, but apparently it's the same old one.

[whopfrog]

@rslitman I tried to upload the flip of this one - The Crystal Ship - yesterday and it got blocked. I have had a couple that uploaded that weren't blocked before and they play now, but others are still getting blocked (Beau Brummels, T. Rex, Toys, etc.). The blocked ones appear to upload, but have a message they're blocked worldwide.

[JeffN727]

When they block a video, only you will be able to see it. It's blocked for everybody else.

[whopfrog]

I just had "Light My Fire" blocked as was "Unknown Soldier". They may have different people doing the blocking not using the same guidelines.

[JeffN727]

I just tried to post "Love Street" and it was blocked. I can see it from this channel (with an add even), but when I log onto my other channel from another computer, it is blocked.

[vwest1ife]

@whopfrog Sometimes the stereo version of a song is blocked while the mono version is allowed... or vice versa!

[whopfrog]

It was the mono I had blocked (identical 45), but I am glad Spencer's is up. Not sure how many different people are doing the blocking or how much of it is software. I tried mine to see what would happen on account of several other Doors post being blocked.

[whopfrog]

I uploaded some things on the Warner label that were not blocked, and a couple of others were. I am trying to figure out some pattern as to what is acceptable.

[JeffN727]

I've had some that I've been able to repost, and they were allowed, but they are still blocking most. I have some Doors vids already made that I had put on Vimeo, but they shut down my channel. I'll eventually try to repost them here and see what happens.

[TheFRiNgEguitars]

Wow! This mix is powerful, and very different. I have the stereo 45, but this one blows it away.

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

the stereo 45 rpm has a few extra bars of music during the middle 8

[jconifer7]

From the recent news that I'm reading, WMG wants to pull out of live streaming sites and also wants to buy out EMI, which means that unmuting videos might be the only way to go in the future. Once a WMG-EMI is finalized, this will result in the muting of EMI artists on YouTube.

I'm re-uploading my Steppenwolf video Saturday, I'll unmute it if I have to, I don't care anymore.

[TheFRiNgEguitars]

videos like this one that sources from a record should allowed to post under fair use act of 1976. If WMG is so worried about copyright infringement from playing records, they should start PRODUCING them.

[zman291977]

According to Wikipedia...the speed discrepancy (being about 3½% slow) was brought to attention by a Brigham Young University professor who stated that all the video and audio live performances of The Doors performing "Light My Fire", as well as the sheet music show the song being in a key almost a full half step higher than the LP release. Only the 45 RPM single of "Light My Fire", issued in 1967, was produced at the correct speed.

[TEMPmichaelhansen]

that is news to me

[zman291977]

Elektra girl copy is a tough find! Great sound as always, Spencer.

[grod75]

That WMG agreement is great news!!!

[jd11193]

Oh and is there any difference between the different labels? I have both versions of this 45 but I didn't think there was a difference.

[jd11193]

whoa cool WMG stuff on youtube! That's awesome! i have a ton of Doors stuff. I love this song one of my favorites.

[Crazyspartan678]

I love this mono mix. I wish there was a Doors collection with the mono mixes of their recordings like this one on CD.