From '' Streetnoise ''
Label: Marmalade -- 658.145, Marmalade -- 658.146
Format: 2 × Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: France
Released: 1969
Tracklist
How Good It Would Be To Feel Free....
A1 Tropic Of Capricorn
A2 Czechoslovakia
A3 Take Me To The Water
A4 A Word About Colour
Kiss Him Quick, He Has To Part....
B1 Light My Fire
B2 Indian Rope Man
B3 When I Was A Young Girl
B4 Flesh Failures (Let The Sunshine In)
Looking In The Eye Of The World....
C1 Ellis Island
C2 In Search Of The Sun
C3 Finally Found You Out
C4 Looking In The Eye Of The World
Save The Country....
D1 Vauxhall To Lambeth Bridge
D2 All Blues
D3 I've Got Life
D4 Save The Country
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\"Light My Fire\" is a song originally performed by The Doors which was recorded in August 1966 and released the first week of January 1967 on the Doors' debut album.
Released as a single in April, it spent three weeks at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and one week on the Cash Box Top 100, nearly a year after its recording.
Then, a year later, it re-entered the Billboard Hot 100 in 1968 following the success of Jose Feliciano's version of the song, peaking at number 87.
A live version was released in 1983 on their album Alive, She Cried, the first of several live albums released in subsequent decades to include the song.
The song is #35 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
It was also included in the Songs of the Century list and was ranked number 7 in VH1's 100 Greatest Songs of All Time list.
José Feliciano's cover version won a 1969 Grammy Award for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, the same year he won another Grammy for Best New Artist.
Covers
Cover versions were recorded by Astrud Gilberto, Natalia Oreiro, Julie London, Friedrich Gulda, Julie Driscoll & the Brian Auger Trinity, Cibo Matto, Africa, Divididos, The Mike Flowers Pops, the LN Elektronische Ensemble, Hide, Minnie Riperton, Stevie Wonder, Lil' Brown, Tammi Lynn, Type O Negative, Al Green, Electric Screwdrivers, B.J. Thomas, Ananda Shankar, Trini Lopez, John Tartaglia, Zacharias and Train, The Challengers did an instrumental version in 1969.
NB The Massive Attack cover actually sampled a combination of the Young-Holt Unlimited cover of \"Light My Fire\" (1969) and the Jackie Wilson cover version of \"Light My Fire\" from his Do Your Thing album. In 2008, pianist David Benoit offered a rendition of the song \"Light My Fire\" from his album Heroes.
The next month in that same year, Warren Hill released a cover of \"Light My Life\". The song is from the album La Dolce Vita.
José Feliciano
Vocalist and guitarist José Feliciano experienced significant international success when he released his version of \"Light My Fire\" in 1968 as a single on the RCA Victor label.
Shirley Bassey
Light My Fire Remix is a single released by Shirley Bassey in 1999.
This is a remix of the vocal recorded in 1970 for the album Something, which is also included on this release.
Will Young
Pop Idol UK series 1 winner Will Young covered the song in 2002.
Other covers
In 1967, Bob Thiele And His New Happy Times Orchestra with Gábor Szabó
Erma Franklin in 1969
Stevie Wonder in 1969
Shirley Bassey in 1970
Ananda Shankar in 1970
Etta James
In 1977, the song was covered by the Spanish group Baccara
Baccara's 1978 version is the second known disco version of the song.
Minnie Riperton (in a duet with José Feliciano) in 1979
Amii Stewart in 1979
In 1988, the Argentinian band Divididos covered the song on their debut album 40 Dibujos Ahi en el Piso.
The Hampton String Quartet arranged the song and recorded it on an early album, What if Mozart Wrote \"Born to be Wild\", in 1988.
Bristol trip-hop group Massive Attack covered the song in 1994 on the album Protection.
Beastie Boys covered the song for the vinyl release of Aglio e Olio in 1995.
Chicago based Jazz vocalist and composer Patricia Barber released a very cool and bluesy cover on the Bluenote 1999 release Modern Cool in 1998.
The song was also covered in 2000 by Scott Stapp with the rest of The Doors on VH1 Storytellers, as well as on a recorded version.
The Finnish death metal band Amorphis covered the song as a bonus track on the re-release of Tales from the Thousand Lakes in 2000.
British reggae band UB40 cover the song on their 2000 album, The Very Best of UB40 1980-2000.
A piano version of the song was created by pianist George Winston in 2002 on his album Night Divides the Day - The Music of the Doors.
In 2006, French singer Laurent Voulzy covered the song on the album La Septième vague.
Jackie Wilson's 1968 cover is sampled in track 2 of Lemon Jelly's Triptych Mix.
The lyrics from the song's chorus were used by hip hop artist Necro on the track \"Light My Fire\". The song is off of his 2002 album Gory Days and has nothing in common with the original song other than its chorus lyrics.
