From the MCRFB NEWS archive: 1967
Los Angeles Group Hottest Commodity For New York Based Record Label
HOLLYWOOD — The Doors have emerged as the leading Coast rock group for Elektra, a New York-based label. The quartet’s LP bearing its name has been moving out of the label’s local distributor at a brisk rate. Since January 1, some 50,000 copies have been sold, according to the company.
The rising popularity for the group, who have been together over a year, has sparked a Manhattan concert and a club engagement in mid-June. They will perform at a June 11 concert at the Village Theater with Janis Joplin and work the Scene for three weeks following the concert. Locally, the group has worked every major rock club on a percentage basis, usually $1,000 against 25 per cent. Their Scene booking engagement will be set for a reportedly marked straight salary pay.
Their New York engagements are the group’s second East Coast appearances. The first time around they were not as active on the charts as they are now. Their current single, “Light My Fire,” and their debut LP from which the single had been adapted from, both are chart climbers. This sales reaction, which began in the band’s hometown Los Angeles, is now spreading Eastward.
Elektra has also snared enthusiasm for Love, to obtain a strong one-two punch among Coast contemporary and progressive music buffs, an added respective momentum employed by the label’s increase both in sales (Doors and Love) in current singles and LP charts. END
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(Information and news source: Billboard; June 10, 1967)
LIGHT MY FIRE (Single) * The Doors * ELEKTRA (1967)
A MCRFB NEWS brief: 1967
DOORS STRIKE GOLD ON ITS DEBUT ALBUM
NEW YORK — The Doors’ album, ‘The Doors’ on Elektra, has been awarded the RIAA Gold Record for sales in excess of 1,000,000. The group is the only one this year to win a Gold Record with their first album. The Doors’ second album, ‘Strange Days’ will be released late this month. END
(Information and news source: Billboard; September 23, 1967)
LIGHT MY FIRE (Instrumental) * The Doors * ELEKTRA (1967)
THE DOORS (Complete Album) * ELEKTRA (1967)
A MCRFB NOTE: Click over (Complete Album) for link of album title tracks.
