The Soft Parade

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The Soft Parade
Studio album by The Doors
Released	July 1969
Recorded	October 1968 - April 1969
Genre	Psychedelic Rock
Length	33:59
Label	Elektra
Producer(s)	Paul Rothchild
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Rolling Stone (not rated) link
The Doors chronology
Waiting for the Sun (1968)	The Soft Parade (1969)	Morrison Hotel (1970)

The Soft Parade is a studio album by the band The Doors, released in 1969. It was not as successful as their previous records due to its inclusion of brass and string instrument arrangements.^{[citation needed]} Fans also critiqued the songs for being too trite. Fans complained that The Soft Parade followed the formulas of previous albums, thus was not very innovative. It is also different from the Doors' other albums because a number of the song lyrics were written by the band's guitarist, Robby Krieger, partly because Jim Morrison was also working on putting together a pair of self-published poetry books.

After this album, the Doors returned to simpler styles on Morrison Hotel and L.A. Woman, with just the four band members playing.

For the first time, the songs were credited to individual members (only Morrison or Krieger on the album sleeve itself are credited) as Morrison was unhappy with the line about people being told to get their guns in Krieger's "Tell All the People", although the title track had Morrison's line of "Better bring your gun".

Contents 1 Trivia 2 Track listing 3 Personnel 4 External links 5 See also

[edit] Trivia

Whereas the first three Doors albums had two singles pulled from each of them, "The Soft Parade" had a grand total of four:

• "Touch Me/Wild Child" (#3, December 1968)
• "Wishful,Sinful/Who Scared You?" (#44, March 1969)
• "Tell All the People/Easy Ride" (#57, June 1969)
• "Runnin' Blue/Do It" (#64, September 1969)

The only two songs on the LP that weren't released as either the A or B-side of a single were the title cut and "Shaman's Blues". This anomaly would be compensated for, when only one single would be pulled off of the next album.

[edit] Track listing

1. "Tell All the People" (Robby Krieger) – 3:21
2. "Touch Me" (Robby Krieger) – 3:12
3. "Shaman's Blues" (Jim Morrison) – 4:48
4. "Do It" (Jim Morrison, Robby Krieger) – 3:09
5. "Easy Ride" (Jim Morrison) – 2:43
6. "Wild Child" (Jim Morrison) – 2:36
7. "Runnin' Blue" (Robby Krieger) – 2:27
8. "Wishful Sinful" (Robby Krieger) – 2:58
9. "The Soft Parade" (Jim Morrison) – 8:36

[edit] Personnel

• Jim Morrison – vocals
• Ray Manzarek – keyboards
• Robby Krieger – guitar, vocals on "Runnin' Blue"
• John Densmore – drums

• Curtis Amy – saxophone
• Reinol Andino – conga
• George Bohanan – trombone
• Harvey Brooks – bass
• Jimmy Buchanan – fiddle
• Doug Lubahn – bass
• Jesse McReynolds – mandolin
• Champ Webb – English horn

[edit] External links

• The Soft Parade lyrics

[edit] See also

• The Electric Soft Parade, who used this briefly as their name

v • d • e The Doors
Jim Morrison | Ray Manzarek | Robby Krieger | John Densmore
Discography
Albums : The Doors | Strange Days | Waiting for the Sun | The Soft Parade | Morrison Hotel | L.A. Woman | Other Voices | Full Circle | An American Prayer: Jim Morrison
Live albums: Absolutely Live | Alive, She Cried | Live at the Hollywood Bowl | In Concert | Live in Hollywood
Compilation Albums: Weird Scenes Inside The Gold Mine | 13 | The Best Of The Doors (2 CDs) | The Doors Greatest Hits | The Best Of The Doors | Legacy: The Absolute Best