This is a tribute to Otis Redding, who died in a plane crash on Dec 10, 1967. The Doors were scheduled to play with Redding at Winterland in San Francisco on Dec 26-28, 1967.
In addition to writing this, Doors guitarist Robby Krieger sang lead. It is one of the few Doors songs where Jim Morrison is not the primary vocalist.
The Doors released this as a single, but did not make the Top 40.
Morrison was abusing alcohol during most of the recording of this album. Since songs like this involved a lot of instruments and took a while to record, Morrison had a lot of time to get drunk. As a result, he didn't contribute much to it.
