Jim Lowe - Green Door (Original)

It was a different day and age for sure in 1956. Jim Lowe, a disc jockey by trade and part-time country and novelty tune songwriter enters a Greenwich Village apartment and records a song he has written, "Green Door", and it goes all the way to #1 in September and stays on the charts for an astounding 22 weeks. It took Elvis and "Love Me Tender" to knock "Green Door" from its #1 spot.

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[hackman1911]

"When I said Joe sent me, someone laughed out loud". I wonder if thats a reference to the song hernandos hidaway?

[Nocaro]

@hackman1911 That never occurred to me until you mentioned it...thanks...Nocaro

[rockgor]

This was popular when I was in High School. We weren't the greatest

generation, but we can claim to be the coolest. At any rate, we were the

first to dance to rock and roll.

Old people hated the new music. Preachers said it would be the ruin

of the country. Well, the country's in bad shape now, but I don't

think music is responsible.

Tnx 4 the nostalgic post.

[juniorredds]

Last night I heard this song while driving late at night through southeast AZ in a U-Haul. It was the first time I had ever heard this original version. The Cramps did a really great cover of it which I've heard many times.

[Krallyz28]

can't help but love that honky tonk

[ErinElvis78]

Elvis could have stolen this from Jim Lowe and have had a no. 1 & 2, this being no.2 of course!

[TheGinger610]

Really good for us doing the jitterbug in the ol' days!

[daasvand]

Quite immaculate the piano!!!

[KKBprogressive777]

Awesome song! =)

[KKBprogressive777]

This song is awesome! I was a teenager the 1st time i heard this..and i still like it today! =)

[paulgtully]

According to the book "More Bloody Brisbane" by Jack Sim (2010), the inspiration for this song was an illegal brothel in Albert St Brisbane Australia, near Elizabeth Street, in the 1940s which was officially tolerated by the police where: "Men would wait for hours to get inside. Servicemen would pay local boys to stand in line for them while they went to a cafe or milk bar". It must have been top service behind Brisbane's Green Door!

[MrReymoclif714]

Grandfather used to have this along with a bunch of cool 78 records when I was a kid! One song I can't find is "I Think I've Been Dreaming Again"?

[sonyahannah]

@hackman1911, actually, "Green Door" and "Hernando's Hideaway" are BOTH using Prohibition slang. The phrase "Joe sent me" was the password for entrance into the speakeasies of the day.