Seminal Debut Rock and Roll Album The Doors Released (1967)

Milestones, Vinyl Releases | Jan 4, 1967

Elektra Records

The Doors is the debut studio album by classic rock band The Doors. The album was released by Elektra Records. It was recorded in August 1966 at Sunset Sound Recorders in Hollywood, California, under the production of Paul A. Rothchild. The album features the extended version of the breakthrough single “Light My Fire” and the lengthy closer “The End.” Publications including BBC and Rolling Stone have considered it one of the greatest and most unique debut albums in recorded history.

All tracks on The Doors are written by band members including Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore, except “Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)” written by Bertolt Brecht & Kurt Weill and “Back Door Man” by Willie Dixon.

Side one

  1. Break On Through (To the Other Side)
  2. Soul Kitchen
  3. The Crystal Ship
  4. Twentieth Century Fox
  5. Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)
  6. Light My Fire

Side two

  1. Back Door Man
  2. I Looked at You
  3. End of the Night
  4. Take It as It Comes
  5. The End