{"id":3818,"date":"2011-02-22T00:51:45","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T07:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=3818"},"modified":"2011-02-22T02:28:02","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T09:28:02","slug":"the-doors-backed-up-by-the-nelson-riddle-orchestra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2011\/02\/22\/the-doors-backed-up-by-the-nelson-riddle-orchestra\/","title":{"rendered":"The Doors, backed up by the Nelson Riddle Orchestra"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Jim Morrison sings <i>Touch Me<\/i><\/h2>\n<h3>December 6, 1968<\/h3>\n<p><i><b><br \/>\nFrom http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Touch_Me_(The_Doors_song)<\/b><br \/>\nOne of the group&#8217;s most famous television appearances is their performance of &#8220;Touch Me&#8221; on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour along with the single&#8217;s B-side, &#8220;Wild Child.&#8221; The taping date was December 6, 1968 with air date of December 15th. During the performance, Jim Morrison missed his cue for the lines &#8220;C&#8217;mon, c&#8217;mon&#8221; and Robby Krieger could be seen with a black eye. Krieger stated in several interviews given after Morrison&#8217;s death that Morrison had given him the black eye during a confrontation; ironically, Krieger&#8217;s original title for the song was &#8220;Hit Me.&#8221; The group is backed by the Nelson Riddle Orchestra, plus Curtis Amy duplicating the saxophone solo he also performed on the studio version.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Where Morrison &#8220;missed his cue&#8221; is at 1:09. There&#8217;s a full second pause in the music. ~Editor<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"480\" height=\"390\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PECk9A-07Pw\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Morrison sings Touch Me December 6, 1968 From http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Touch_Me_(The_Doors_song) One of the group&#8217;s most famous television appearances is their performance of &#8220;Touch Me&#8221; on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour along with the single&#8217;s B-side, &#8220;Wild Child.&#8221; The taping date was December 6, 1968 with air date of December 15th. During the performance, Jim Morrison missed his cue for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[573,579],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-reflected-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":247,"url":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2007\/02\/24\/van-morrison-at-the-movies-show-review\/","url_meta":{"origin":3818,"position":0},"title":"Van Morrison at the Movies show review","author":"admin","date":"February 24, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Van Morrison, Gibson Amphitheatre, Los Angeles, 21st-Feb-2007 7:30 pm review and photos by Jim Steinfeldt Van Morrison was unusually playful with the audience. 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