Greatest Hits (The Doors album)

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Greatest Hits
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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)An American Prayer1978		 Greatest Hits
(1980)		 Alive, She Cried
(1983)Alive, She Cried1983
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Allmusic link 3.5/5 stars

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

  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

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

Certifications

Region Certification Sales/shipments
Argentina (CAPIF)[1] Gold 30,000
France (SNEP)[2] Gold 100,000
Canada (Music Canada)[3]
LP edition		 2× Platinum 200,000
Canada (Music Canada)[3]
CD edition		 5× Platinum 500,000
United States (RIAA)[4]
LP edition		 3× Platinum 3,000,000
United States (RIAA)[5]
CD edition		 2× Platinum 2,000,000
Australia (ARIA)[6] 2× Platinum 140,000
United Kingdom (BPI)[7] Silver 60,000

*sales figures based on certification alone
^shipments figures based on certification alone
xunspecified figures based on certification alone

References

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