Friday On My Mind 82: RIP Ray Manzarek
Posted in 1960s, Friday On My Mind, Music at 19:53 on 21 May 2013
Sad to hear this morning of the death of Ray Manzarek, keyboardist with The Doors, who came to notice in the UK with Light My Fire. Despite showing off Manzarek’s playing it only reached no. 49 in the charts on its first release in 1967.
Their biggest UK hit was in fact Hello I Love You (Won’t You Tell me Your Name?) which sounded as if it owed a lot to The Kinks’ All Day and All of the Night, though apparently The Doors denied the connection.
Their only other song to trouble the UK charts was the atmospheric Riders on the Storm in 1971.
Raymond Daniel Manczarek, Jr: 12/02/1939 – 20/05/2013. So it goes.
The Doors: Light My Fire
Tags: All Day And All Of The Night, Friday On My Mind, Hello I Love You, Hello I Love You (Won't You Tell me Your Name?), Light My Fire, Ray Manzarek, The Doors, The Kinks
