Coming on September 14th is the Doors‘ Waiting For The Sun – 50th Anniversary Reissue. The two-CD/single LP collection features a new version of the album’s original stereo mix on both CD and 180-gram vinyl LP, which has been newly remastered from the original master tapes by the Doors’ longtime engineer/producer Bruce Botnick. The set also includes “a second disc of 14 completely unreleased tracks: nine recently discovered ‘rough mixes’ from the album recording sessions and five live songs from a 1968 Copenhagen show.”

In commemoration of “Hello, I Love You” topping the Billboard Hot 100 for two weeks beginning on August 3rd, 1968, the band will issue a new seven-inch version of the single with its B-side “Love Street.” According to the press release, “For this anniversary release, Rhino will use mono radio mixes of the songs that were given exclusively to radio stations for airplay in 1968. This version of ‘Hello, I Love You’ was first available last year as part of The Singles CD collection and is making its vinyl debut here, while the ‘Love Street’ mix is being released commercially for the first time.”

Drummer John Densmore told Pulse that from the beginning to the end of the band, the Doors had a chemistry unparalleled: “Ray (Manzarek) and I were completely synchronistic in our musical sensibilities. We just. . . intuitive stuff together and backed up Robby’s soaring solos and Jim’s vocal and. . . we were blessed. We gotta remember that was the muse coming in. Y’know, she just visits when she wants to. Yeah, even with Jim’s self destruction, every time we made an album, when we were behind closed doors, there was a sacredness to the four of us.”

The Doors’ Waiting For The Sun – 50th Anniversary reissue tracklist:

Disc One – Original Album

“Hello, I Love You”
“Love Street”
“Not To Touch The Earth”
“Summer’s Almost Gone”
“Wintertime Love”
“The Unknown Soldier”
“Spanish Caravan”
“My Wild Love”
“We Could Be So Good Together”
“Yes, The River Knows”
“Five To One”

Disc Two – Previously Unreleased Tracks

“Hello, I Love You” (rough mix)
“Summer’s Almost Gone” (rough mix)
“Yes, The River Knows” (rough mix)
“Spanish Caravan” (rough mix)
“Love Street” (rough mix)
“Wintertime Love” (rough mix)
“Not To Touch The Earth” (rough mix)
“Five To One” (rough mix)
“My Wild Love” (rough mix)
“The WASP (Texas Radio And The Big Beat)” (live in Copenhagen)
“Hello, I Love You” (live in Copenhagen)
“Back Door Man” (live in Copenhagen)
“Five To One” (live in Copenhagen)
“The Unknown Soldier” (live in Copenhagen)

SOURCE: Press release

DID YOU KNOW???

• The Doors‘ third album, Waiting For The Sun, was released on July 3rd, 1968 — exactly three years prior to Jim Morrison‘s death.
• The album hit Number One on September 7th, 1968 and held down the top spot for four nonconsecitive weeks.

SIDE NOTES

• Recently released is the box set, The Doors: The Singles . The set is comprised of three new collections featuring the A and B-sides to every single the band released in America compiled for the first time ever.
• The Singles also features several songs released after Jim Morrison‘s 1971 death, featuring the surviving trio’s tracks — “Tightrope Ride” and “The Mosquito” — along with live selections from the Doors’ posthumous releases, including “Roadhouse Blues” and “Gloria.”
• The Blu-ray disc that accompanies the expanded version of The Singles features “a high-resolution Quadraphonic mix of The Best Of The Doors. This 11-song compilation, available on Blu-ray for the first time, was remixed specifically for Quad in 1973 and offers a unique sonic experience.”

The Doors: The Singles has been issued in several formats, including:

• Two-CD set featuring all 20 U.S. singles with their corresponding B-sides, plus four mono radio versions.
• Two-CD/Blu-ray featuring all the content from double-disc version — plus the 1973 compilation The Best Of The Doors in Quad on Blu-ray for the first time.
• A 7-Inch Vinyl Box including all 20 singles with their corresponding B-sides on 20 7-inch vinyl 45’s with original sleeve art and labels, presented in an ornate, lift-top box. Limited to 10,000 copies worldwide.