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The Doors - Hyacinth House

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Album: LA Woman
Released: 1971

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Hyacinthus was a young love of the Greek God Apollo. Apollo accidentally killed him, and from his blood sprang the hyacinth, a plant with a fragrant cluster of flowers.

The line, "I see the bathroom is clear" could refer to the bathroom in the studio where the song "L.A. Woman" was recorded. At the time, Jim Morrison insisted on recording the vocal track remotely from the bathroom rather than in the studio with the rest of the band. (thanks, Sam - Lincoln, NE)

The song was written at guitarist Robby Krieger's house, which inspired some of Morrison's lyrics with its flowers (hyacinths) and cats ("lions").

According to Uncut magazine September 2011 the line, "I see the bathroom is clear," was literal. Morrison's friend Babe Hill emerged from the bathroom just as he was writing that verse.

The Doors - L'America

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Album: LA Woman
Released: 1971

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The Doors recorded this months before the other songs on LA Woman. It was intended for the movie Zabriskie Point by Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni. He rejected the song so The Doors put it on the album.

Jim Morrison intended the word "L'America" to mean "Latin America."

The Doors - L.A. Woman

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Album: LA Woman
Released: 1971

L.A. Woman Lyrics

Well, I just got into town about an hour ago
Took a look around, see which way the wind blow
Where the little girls in their Hollywood bungalows

Are you a lucky little lady in the city of light
Or just another lost angel, city of night
City of night, city of night, city of night, woo, c'mon

L.A. Woman, L.A. woman
L.A. woman Sunday afternoon
L.A. woman Sunday afternoon
L.A. woman Sunday afternoon
Drive through your suburbs
Into your blues, into your blues, yeah
Into your blue-blue blues
Into your blues, ohh, yeah

I see your hair is burnin'
Hills are filled with fire
If they say I never loved you
You know they are a liar
Drivin' down your freeways
Midnight alleys roam
Cops in cars, the topless bars
Never saw a woman
So alone, so alone
So alone, so alone

Motel money murder madness
Let's change the mood from glad to sadness

Mister mojo risin', mister mojo risin'
Mister mojo risin', mister mojo risin'
Got to keep on risin'
Mister mojo risin', mister mojo risin'
Mojo risin', gotta mojo risin'
Mister mojo risin', gotta keep on risin'
Risin', risin'
Gone risin', risin'
I'm gone risin', risin'
I gotta risin', risin'
Well, risin', risin'
I gotta, wooo, yeah, risin'
Woah, ohh yeah

Well, I just got into town about an hour ago
Took a look around, see which way the wind blow
Where the little girls in their Hollywood bungalows

Are you a lucky little lady in the city of light
Or just another lost angel, city of night
City of night, city of night, city of night, woah, c'mon

L.A. woman, L.A. woman
L.A. woman, your my woman
Little L.A. woman, little L.A. woman
L.A. L.A. woman woman
L.A. woman c'mon

Writer/s: Smith, Wilson
Publisher: EMI Music Publishing
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"Mr. Mojo Risin'" is an anagram for "Jim Morrison." He repeats the phrase at the end of the song faster and faster to simulate orgasm. Early blues musicians often referred to their "Mojo," like in the Muddy Waters song "Got My Mojo Working."

A mojo is a Hoodoo charm, usually a bag filled with items like roots, lodestone, rattlesnake rattles, alligator teeth, charms, coins - whatever does the trick. Different bags would be used for different purposes: If the bag were red, it would be a mojo for love and you would have to put a personal item, such as hair or bit of clothing in order for the mojo to work. If the mojo were made out of a black bag it would be for death. Many white listeners, including Jim Morrison, thought mojo meant sexual energy, and that is how it's usually interpreted today, in part due to Austin Powers movies. (thanks, Kevin - Martinez, CA)

Keyboardist Ray Manzarek explained the song's meaning to Uncut magazine September 2011: "A song about driving madly down the LA freeway - either heading into LA or going out on the 405 up to San Francisco. You're a beatnik on the road, like Kerouac and Neal Cassady, barreling down the freeway as fast as you can go."

Morrison recorded his vocals in the studio bathroom to get a fuller sound. He spent a lot of time in there anyway because of all the beer he drank during the sessions.

The Doors performed this live only once, in Dallas at the State Fair Music Hall on December 11, 1970. The only live recording of this is on the bootleg If It Ain't One Thing, It's Another. The band wanted to bring more musicians along to simulate the studio sound, but Morrison died before they could launch the tour. (thanks, Tony - Westbury, NY)

This was the title track to the last Doors album before Jim Morrison died. The remaining members released two more albums, Other Voices and Full Circle, which both sold poorly. (thanks, Jim - Hopatcong, NJ)

The Doors needed extra musicians to record this. Jerry Sheff (famous for his work with Elvis Presley) was brought in to play bass, Marc Benno to play guitar. Sheff and Benno were going to tour with the band, but Morrison's death canceled those plans.

Morrison got the idea for the "City of Night" lyric from John Rechy's 1963 book of the same name. It describes a sordid world of sexual perversion, which Morrison translated to Los Angeles.

They put this together in the studio and recorded it live with no overdubs. It came together surprisingly well. Guitarist Robby Krieger has called it "the quintessential Doors song."

The first line, "Well, I did a little down about an hour ago," is a reference to a barbituate, specifically Rorer 714.

Billy Idol covered this on his 1990 album Charmed Life, his version hitting #52 in the US. Idol was in the 1991 Oliver Stone movie The Doors, but had to take a smaller role because of a 1990 motorcycle accident that limited his mobility.

At a press conference to promote the album, Idol explained that he had been playing "L.A. Woman" for years and was a big fan of the song. He would often use it to audition new band members.

The Doors produced this album with Bruce Botnick. Paul Rothchild, who produced their first 5 albums, did not want to work on this because he didn't like the songs. He produced an album for Janis Joplin instead.

In 2000, the surviving members of the Doors taped a VH1 Storytellers episode with guest vocalists filling in for Morrison. Perry Farrell, formerly of Jane's Addiction, sang on this.

Doors drummer John Densmore said in the The Story of L.A. Woman documentary: "The metaphor for the city as a woman is brilliant: cops in cars, never saw a woman so alone - great stuff. It's metaphoric, the physicality of the town and thinking of her and how we need to take care of her, it's my hometown."

The Doors - Love Her Madly

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Album: LA Woman
Released: 1971

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Doors guitarist Robby Krieger wrote this song on a 12-string guitar. It is about the numerous times his girlfriend (and later, wife), Lynn, threatened to leave him. "Every time we had an argument, she used to get pissed off and go out the door, and she'd slam the door so loud the house would shake," Krieger said.

Krieger, John Densmore, and Ray Manzarek recorded a new version with Bo Diddley for the 2000 Doors tribute album Stoned Immaculate.

This was the last album they recorded with Jim Morrison, who died shortly after it was released.

This was recorded in a very casual atmosphere. The musicians all played together, with no overdubs. They produced it themselves, which meant they could relax and make their own rules. The whole album was recorded in just two weeks.

Along with "Hello I Love You," "People Are Strange" and "Soul Kitchen," this was used in the movie Forrest Gump. (thanks, bob - Laguna Beach, CA)

The title is a twist on a phrase Duke Ellington popularized. At his concerts, he would say, "we love you madly."

The Doors - Queen Of The Highway

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Album: Morrison Hotel
Released: 1970

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Jim Morrison wrote the lyrics about his relationship with Pamela Courson, who later became his wife. She was with him in Paris when Morrison died in 1971.

Morrison and Doors guitarist Robby Krieger combined to write this.

The Doors - Indian Summer

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Album: Morrison Hotel
Released: 1970

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This was one of the first songs The Doors recorded. They played it on a demo they recorded in 1965. They did not release it until 1970 because they didn't feel the recording quality was up to standard.

Indian Summer is an extended warm spell in Autumn.

This hypnotic piece was inspired by a car accident in the desert when Jim Morrison was four years old, and his family was on the way to New Mexico. A family of Native Americans were injured and possibly killed. Morrison was quoted as saying: "The souls of the ghosts of those dead Indians... were just running around freaking out, and just leaped into my soul. And they're still in there." This scene is portrayed at the beginning of Oliver Stone's movie The Doors. (thanks, chloe - st. louis, MO)

Even though this was one of the first songs they wrote, The Doors never played it live because they thought it would sound insignificant compared to "The End," an Oedipal opus that was a staple of their early live shows.

The Doors - Land Ho

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Album: Morrison Hotel
Released: 1970

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"Land Ho" is an expression used by sailors when they saw a land after being surrounded with nothing except the ocean for a long time. (thanks, Elanor - Zagreb, MO)

This is a story of the sea that represents a quest for freedom.

Drummer John Densmore created a Skiffle beat for this. In the '50s, Skiffle was a popular style in England where amateur musicians would use jugs, washboards, and whatever else they had to make music.

The Doors - Waiting For The Sun

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Album: Morrison Hotel
Released: 1970

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"Waiting For The Sun" is the title of The Doors third album, and they tried to record it in those sessions, but didn't like how it came out. They brought it back 2 years later for their fifth album, Morrison Hotel.

This is about the quest for the American Dream, which is never attained.

Barney Hoskyns used this as the title of a book about the music scene in Los Angeles.

After their fourth album, The Soft Parade, was criticized for being too commercial, The Doors returned to their roots on this, which resulted in more simple songs based on The Blues.

The Doors - Runnin' Blue

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Album: The Soft Parade
Released: 1969

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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.

One of the instruments used was a fiddle.

The Doors - The Soft Parade

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Album: The Soft Parade
Released: 1969

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This was the title track to The Doors' fourth album. It sold well, but many critics felt it was a sellout to Pop music. Their next album, Morrison Hotel, was a return to their roots and was recorded a lot faster.

Morrison put the lyrics together out of pieces of poetry he had written.

Many of the images are of people walking along Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, where Morrison often hung out.

The Doors played this live only once: on a PBS television special in 1969. (thanks, Sam - Lincoln, NE)

The Doors - Wild Child

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Album: The Soft Parade
Released: 1969

Wild Child Lyrics

All right,
Wild Child full of grace
Savior of the human race,
Your cool face
Natural child, terrible child
Not your mother's or your father's child
Your our child, screamin' wild
An ancient rulage of grains,
And the trees of the night
Ha, ha, ha, ha
With hunger at her heels,
Freedom in her eyes
She dances on her knees,
Pirate prince at her side
Stirrin' into a hollow idols eyes
Wild child full of grace,
Savior of the human race
Your cool face,
Your cool face,
Your cool face
Do you remember when we were in Africa?

Writer/s: JAMES DOUGLAS MORRISON, JIM MORRISON, LEWIS ALLEN RABINOWITZ, LOU REED
Publisher: SONY ATV MUSIC PUB LLC
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In 2000, the surviving members of the Doors taped a VH1 Storytellers episode with guest vocalists filling in for Morrison. Ian Astbury sang on this.

Most of the album contained more orchestral songs than what The Doors had previously recorded. This, however, was closer to their earlier work than anything else on The Soft Parade.

This was the B-side of "Touch Me."

The Doors - Tell All The People

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Album: The Soft Parade
Released: 1969

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Doors guitarist Robby Krieger wrote this, as well as most of the songs on The Soft Parade. He thought it was perfect for Jim Morrison to sing, but Morrison did not want to be associated with this song was because of the negative imagery in the lyrics. "Tell all the people get your guns...," was the phrase that made Jim Morrison hate this song. Krieger was referring to an event where certain rednecks violently beat him and Doors drummer John Densmore. This also explains why you see them on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour with black eyes playing "Touch Me." (thanks, Greg - Cincinnati, OH)

This song prompted Morrison to insist on individual writing credits so people could identify which band member wrote which songs. He did not want anyone to think he wrote this.

This was released as a single, but did not make the top 40.

The Doors - Five To One

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Album: Waiting For The Sun
Released: 1968

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"Five to one" was the approximate ratio of whites to blacks, young to old, and non-pot smokers to pot smokers in the US in 1967. It was also the amount of Vietnamese to American soldiers in Vietnam, although Jim Morrison said the lyrics were not political. (thanks, Coleman - Richmond, VA)

Jim Morrison was so drunk when he recorded this song, he needed help from the studio staff on when to begin singing. If you listen closely, you can hear someone in the background say "One more time" before Jim starts his first verse. (thanks, Jeff - wyckoff, NJ)

Morrison got the idea for this while waiting in the audience before performing a concert in 1967.

On bootlegs of live recordings, Morrison included the phrase "f--ked up" in the spoken word section at the end. He swore a lot at live shows, but the studio albums were always curse-free.

The part of the song about "Shadows of the evening" is an adaptation of the Victorian-era hymn "Shadows of the Evening," whose first verse is:

Now the day is over
Night is drawing nigh
Shadows of the evening
Steal across the sky (thanks, Jamie - Perth, Australia)

Robby Krieger recorded a version of this with Marilyn Manson for the 2000 Doors tribute album Stoned Immaculate .

In 2000, the surviving members of the Doors taped a VH1 Storytellers episode with guest vocalists filling in for Morrison. Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland sang on this track.

Jay-Z sampled this on his 2000 song "Takeover." The track was produced by Kanye West, who often uses old rock or R&B songs in rap records.

The lyrics, "No one here gets out alive" were used for a Jim Morrison biography by Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman. (thanks, bob - Laguna Beach, CA)

Mos Def sampled this track on his 2004 release "The Rape Over" from his album The New Danger. Mos Def's song contains the bass line and drums with Jim Morrison's "Come On!" at the beginning of the track. Though "Five to One" is not a political statement per say; Mos Def's "The Rape Over" directly hits the capitalist blows against the minorities of the US. (thanks, Kay - Costa Mesa, CA)

The Doors - Hello I Love You

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Album: Waiting For The Sun
Released: 1968

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Jim Morrison wrote this in 1965 after seeing a beautiful woman walking on the beach. He thought up the song and wrote it that night. The song was not recorded until three years later.

Many fans considered this a sellout to Top 40 music. It was very radio-friendly, and not as deep or offensive as previous Doors songs.

This was one of six songs recorded for a demo the Doors recorded in 1965. Robby Krieger had not yet joined the band.

The music is similar to The Kinks' song "All Day And All Of The Night." So similar, that The Doors paid royalties from the British single to The Kinks after the threat of legal action.

Looking back, Ray Davies was philosophical about the episode, recalling to Mojo magazine September 2012: "The funniest thing was when my publisher came to me on tour and said The Doors had used the riff for 'All Day And All Of The Night' for 'Hello, I Love You.' I said rather than sue them, can't we just get them to own up? My publisher said, 'They have, that's why we should sue them!' (laughs) Jim Morrison admitted it, which to me was the most important thing. The most important thing, actually, is to take (the idea) somewhere else."

Robby Krieger ran his guitar through a fuzz box to get a distorted effect like Cream's "Sunshine Of Your Love."

The line "Queen of the angels" refers to Los Angeles, the "City of Angels." The Doors were from LA.

This was the first Doors song that was successful in Europe.

The R.E.M. song "Pop Song '89" is a play on this. Instead of talking about sex, they talk to the girl about politics and the weather.

This song was used both in the movies Platoon and Casualties of War. (thanks, Lance - Malibu, CA)

The Doors - Moonlight Drive

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Album: Strange Days
Released: 1967

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Jim Morrison wrote the lyrics while he was living on a rooftop in Venice Beach, California. At night everything was clear, so he would look into peoples windows, study what they were doing, and watch their TV sets. (thanks, Shelby - Lincoln City, OR)

Jim Morrison recited this as a poem to Ray Manzarek when they ran into each other on a beach in Southern California in 1965. Manzarek, who knew Morrison from UCLA film school, thought it was great and convinced him to form a band.

This was the first song recorded by The Doors. It was left off their first album because they felt it wasn't good enough. Speaking with Gibson.com in a 2011 interview, Manzarek recalled there was chemistry straight away: "I knew instantly we had found 'it,' that indefinable, transcendent something that Kerouac refers to," he said. "I remember showing Robby the chord changes for a simple 'G' progression. He pulled out his bottleneck and said, 'I've got an idea for this, something sort of liquid-like.' A lot of The Doors music came to be like that – water-y. That came from living on the beach. We were actually there, whereas even The Beach Boys, for instance, didn't really live on the beach."

The Doors started recording this as more of a Blues song. Ray Manzarek got the idea during recording to do it as "a rock tango."

The lyrics are about a tryst on the beach under the moonlight.

This was one of 6 songs The Doors recorded for a demo at Aura records in 1965. They didn't get a record deal out of it, but signed with Elektra 2 years later.

This was released as the B-side of "Love Me Two Times."

The Doors - Strange Days

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Album: Strange Days
Released: 1967

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The lyrics are about how normal places can still be strange and uneasy. Jim Morrison's vocals were heavily processed to enhance the feel.

This song was one of the earliest uses of the Moog synthesizer.

The Doors - Unhappy Girl

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Album: Strange Days
Released: 1967

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Ray Manzarek played the piano backwards while listening to this in reverse. That track was then played forward and overdubbed in.

This continues the story of the estranged lover from their songs "You're Lost Little Girl" and "Love Me Two Times."

The Doors - End Of The Night

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Album: The Doors
Released: 1967

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This is a "confession" of Jim Morrison's aims in life. To the end of the night was his aim through many ways of speeding up death, a kind of death through hallucinations and visions into other worlds (drugs). He was trying to get somewhere nobody had ever been before, a place of complete peace. (thanks, scarlett - winchester, England)

Some of the lyrics were inspired by the French novel Journey To The End Of The Night .

The line, "Realms of bliss, realms of light, some are borne to sweet delight, some are borne to sweet delight, some are borne to the endless night." is taken almost verbatim from the poem Auguries Of Innocence by William Blake. (thanks, max - geneva, IL)

This helped The Doors get a record deal. They included it on a demo they made for Aura Records in 1965. It didn't get them signed, but they landed a deal with Electra 2 years later.

This was released as the B-side of "Break on Through."

The Doors - Break On Through (To The Other Side)

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Album: The Doors
Released: 1967

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This was the first song on The Doors first album, and also their first single. It got some airplay on Los Angeles radio stations after their friends and fans kept requesting it.

The original line in the chorus was "She gets high." Elektra records censored "high," making it sound like, "she get uuggh," but the "high" line can be heard in live versions. You can also hear the song as intended in the 1999 reissue of the album, which was overseen by their original engineer Bruce Botnick. He also replaced Jim Morrison's "f--k"s on "The End."

Jim Morrison got some of the lyrics from John Rechy's 1963 book "City of Night."

The guitar melody was inspired by Paul Butterfield's "Shake Your Money Maker."

John Densmore added the knocking drum sound by hitting his drumstick sideways across the snare.

This was one of 6 songs The Doors recorded for a demo on Aura Records while they were trying to get signed in 1965. Robby Krieger was not yet with the group.

The vocals are a mix of two of Morrison's takes.

In year 2000, the surviving members of The Doors taped a VH1 Storytellers episode with guest vocalists filling in for Morrison. Scott Weiland from The Stone Temple Pilots sang on this track.

This was included on the Doors tribute album Stoned Immaculate , with Scott Weiland on vocals.

As John Densmore states in The Doors Box Set , the beat of this song was inspired by Brazilian Bossa Nova like Joao Gilberto and Tom Jobim.

In The Doors Box Set, Ray Manzarek said this was the last song they played live. It was during the Isle of the Wight Festival in the summer of 1970. The festival occurred while Morrison was on trial in Miami faced with charges of indecent exposure, and the band got a special five days of recess to be in England and get back to US. "This was to be the first gig of an European tour just as Miami was to be the first gig of a 20-city US tour. We never got beyond the first date of either one," said Ray. (thanks, Nisio - Belo Horizonte, Brazil, for above 2)

In an episode of The Simpsons, Krusty the Klown sings this when he shows the crowd a tape of him when he was younger. (thanks, bob - Laguna Beach, CA)

The Doors - Soul Kitchen

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Album: The Doors
Released: 1967

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This is a tribute to a soul food restaurant Jim Morrison ate at on Venice Beach called Olivia's. Morrison often stayed too late at Olivia's, where he liked the food because it reminded him of home and warmed his "soul." They often kicked him out so they can close, thus lines like: "let me sleep all night, in your soul kitchen."

"Soul Kitchen" as a restaurant title, would have of course referred to "soul food." That's a traditional kind of cuisine popular with African Americans of the mid-20th century, named in harmony with other "soul" affectations. Soul food usually revolved around ham (cuts like hog's feet and hog jowls), beans, okra, hushpuppies, cornbread, collard greens, and other one-offs of standard American fair. The idea is to that the food is both economical and very filling. People in colder climates (from any culture) may also find soul food comforting in the heart of winter, since you're going to burn all those calories shoveling snow anyway.

According to the Greil Marcus book The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years, "Soul Kitchen" was The Doors' own "Gloria," comparing the steady climb toward a looming chorus. It also quotes Paul Williams' May 1967 article in Crawdaddy! opining that it was more comparable to "Blowin' in the Wind," in that both songs have a message, but the message of "Soul Kitchen" is of course "learn to forget."

Meanwhile, John Densmore's book Riders on the Storm: My Life with Jim Morrison and the Doors declares that the title restaurant Olivia's was a "small soul food restaurant at the corner of Ocean Park and Main." The author describes a meal there with Morrison, commenting that the restaurant "belonged in Biloxi, Mississippi" and resembled "an Amtrak dining car that got stranded on the beach" and was packed with UCLA film students. Another famous diner was Linda Ronstadt.

He is not credited on the album, but Larry Knetchel was brought in to play bass. The Doors usually did not use a bass player, but producer Paul Rothchild felt this needed it.

This song was used as part of the soundtrack to the 1994 blockbuster film Forrest Gump and in the 2003 documentary Mayor of the Sunset Strip. The song "I'm a Tree" by alternative Hip-Hop artist Imani Coppola samples this song, and Coppola's song appears in many more film and TV episode soundtracks.

Jim Morrison sang lead and harmony. His vocals were overdubbed.

The punk rock band X released a cover of this song on their 1980 album Los Angeles.

In terms of time length, at 3 min. 35 seconds, this song is the second-longest on The Doors' debut album. With the longest, of course, being "The End."