BEST VERSION? 🎵 The Doors - Gloria REACTION

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[@jammietrigg6541]

Every Doors song was a phenomenal piece of art which is what makes them the GOAT of Rock-N-Soul!

[@gordowg1wg145]

Oh my, Brad, you did so well holding a straight face with the "there was a whole lot of organ" comment 🤣

[@thebrhinocerous]

Jim Morrison had one of THE best rock screams ever. Thanks for doing this one!

[@reannejarvis9464]

Straight from his soul. Still the best scream in rock.🇦🇺🎸⚡️🤘🏼🤘🏿💋❤️

[@thelordofdarkness141]

The best

[@ghostdog7575]

Jack Black agrees...

[@lindawulfkoenig4907]

I had NO idea The Doors ever recorded Gloria. So even at 70 years old, I can learn something new about "my" music! Thanks for reacting to this.

[@waynehackney5812]

I heard this version before I heard Them, I thought it was a Doors original song.

[@Christopher-Baltimore]

me neither!!

[@vrvaughn]

I never knew they covered it.. never heard it before..

[@willasacco9898]

Add me to the list. Ow that I have heard it, it seems a natural for them to cover.

[@willieboy3011]

There is a live version on KZbin too. I'm about your age also, and I only learned of this a few yrs ago.

[@davidclarke6304]

In April 1965, the song "Gloria" was released by Van Morrison's band, "Them", through Decca Records. It was the first single taken from the group's debut album "The Angry Young Them". Throughout June 1966, The Doors opened shows for Them at the Whiskey a-Go Go in Los Angeles. On the final night, Jim Morrison joined "Them" on stage to perform "Gloria", and during the 20 minute version the two Morrison men reportedly exchanged verses back and forth. There is no known recording of the show but there is a photo. Since its release, "Gloria" has been covered far and wide. In 1965 alone The Gants, The Bobby Fuller Four, and The Shadows of Knight all released "Gloria" as a single.- Gaslight Records

[@ThePeaceableKingdom]

Lots of good versions but it will always be *Them*

[@michaelmagnum7132]

@SMC Gmail Jim sounds a bit more naughty than Van.

[@flobp2381]

@SMC Gmail Jimi Hendrix's version is the best!

[@user-gt2uf8cq9y]

The Doors version is the one that doesn't dance around what the song is about. It's easily the version that band had the most fun doing. Everyone named Gloria got so much attention back then...

[@cup_cuppy_cuppers5817]

@@user-gt2uf8cq9y - Agreed. Damn near primal.

[@JoeBlow_4]

Always loved the spin that the Lizard King put on this song. He turned it into an intimate encounter. Other artists didn't do the song that way.

[@elizabethfranco1284]

Yeah I don’t remember Them being that detailed 😂

[@JoeBlow_4]

@@elizabethfranco1284 This was a sound check of him goofing around that got recorded ;)

[@ronaldtiracchia2017]

Well check out Patti Smith doing this

[@kelvinkloud]

morrison when dialed in was a straight up rock 'n roll animal..... his improv on this, walking up the stair, into the rm & the band slowing pace & melding in perfectly w/ his scat lyrics & evocative description is why this band was the most dangerous of their era. they, esp morrison, knew how to create tension & drama, almost like a theater sense, better then any rock band whose performed on stage.

[@karendavis2668]

I'm sure he was an amazing performer 💖🦋

[@thelowe6393]

Brother, you hit the nail on the head! This is in the studio but is so effing LIVE!

[@loadedorygun]

Rock and Roll Animal is an interesting choice of phrase, this actually reminds me a bit of Lou Reed’s delivery around Take No Prisoners.

[@johnr.8275]

I'm way too young to have ever seen The Doors. However, I find when listening to live shows of them it seems that as Morrison went, so did the rest of the band. When he was tanked and useless, the band seemed positively uninspired. When he was focused and relatively sober, the band could reach dizzying heights of improvisational genius. The Doors were amazing.

[@camronbay1]

Ever noticed at the live concerts very dark and you can almost feel like something is going to happen.

[@angelo9725]

That was the clean version of The Doors cover of Gloria… lol

[@stofffpv3128]

yes i love the dirty version with the video

[@steveparker8065]

Patti Smith does a good punkish cover of this track and Jimi Hendrix nails it on guitar. I'm not sure who did the best version but I've always loved the attitude in the Patti Smith cover and the extra lyrics too. Love the reaction guys and also love The Doors. The Doors were named after the book by Aldous Huxley 'The Doors of Perception'.

[@vanceharkema5131]

Love the hendrix version. It's a little dirty too.

[@MsAppassionata]

@Ryan Cardno Love her version too.

[@sukie584]

They did a reaction to it about a year ago…

[@gkiferonhs]

This is the archetypal garage-band song. EVERY band in the 60's (even mine) covered this song.

[@richdiana3663]

My buddies tried to form a band in someone's garage and this was the only song we could play that didn't sound like cats fighting.

[@jefmay3053]

Poor Brad, Lex I think it's time for you to sit him down and have "The Talk".😅

[@TrianglesAndCircles]

That was more organ than Brad wanted to hear about.

[@doriwiljt]

😂

[@jimcollins3446]

Ah So you thought van the man had sexualiized the song enough then along comes the shape shifting lizard 🤴.The back door man...

[@darrellthorpe7654]

I love, Love, LOVE The Doors cover of Gloria…thank you so much did bring the rare reaction👍🏼😎

[@andrewshedron425]

Loved it when she laughed and he didn't even know he cracked a joke about a whole lotta organ. Lmao

[@CCDzine]

Yes, absolutely the best version , and it was performed live (this edited out the crowd noise from the Alive She Cried album).

[@bobschenkel7921]

Back in the mid-80's there was Hurricane Gloria that came up the East Coast of the USA, I was living in New Hampshire at the time, and ALL the radio stations were playing this song, from a variety of artists who had done it. But The Doors version got the most airplay. G-L-O-R-I-A!!!

[@betsyduane3461]

Jim is in peak voice, incredible that this was a pre-concert sound check, I wonder what kind of voice he had left the rest of the night.

[@russallert]

This was the soundcheck for the gigs they played at the Aquarius Theatre in '69, which were recorded for the Absolutely Live album, but I don't think they were ever used on that album (they recorded several gigs at that time). The Aquarius gigs were released fairly recently, and judging by the few songs I've heard from them, Morrison was in pretty good form the whole time.

[@Casherr93]

Sounds like a studio kind of versión, sounds so clean

[@lantose]

What a great band the Doors were! Grew up with them in ‘67 at 12 years old and whenever I hear them now, I find it rare that they played a song I didn’t like! I had to give everyone a thumbs up on the video!

[@3qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq10]

I'm only 53. I found them at like 12 or 13 and was just over the top over them. Read the biography, saw the movie the day it came out. Any way winter of the pandemic I did a dna test and I found my bio mom and sister, and while attempting to contact them started doing my genealogy. I did moms side first and I was dumb struck. It turns out three of my four grandparents descended from aristocrats. LOTS of aristocrats. Any way, the next surprises had me even more floored. I'm Jim Morrisons second cousin once removed on dad's side and on moms I'm Doc Hollidays fourth cousin, which means Val Kilmer played both of my famous cousins in movies :)

[@lantose]

@@3qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq10 Wow, that’s incredible! Glad you dove in and got to know their music!

[@drmauriciodiaz]

More importantly, this was recorded LIVE during A SOUND CHECK., before a concert in Los Ángeles (Aquarius Theater) in 1969. Yes, they were THIS good.

[@DQ-su6qf]

I was there…..seems like only…about 50 years ago….Everyone at the show received a poem from Morrison in honor of the recently deceased Brian jones…

[@vincentvancraig]

how jim morrison sang this stuff while damn near quasi-leading the band also, all while drunk as damn skunk is a friggin' miracle, lolol...classic goat band of story-telling and drama...this made my day

[@vincentvancraig]

hadnt heard it in a dog's age

[@jmag579]

6:29 I always loved the snare drum part John Densmore played here. It was always a motif in his playing. He’s the guy that got me interested in drums ✨✨

[@John__Dough]

Lex is so cute, what she was saying at the end flew completely over Brad’s head 😂

[@richdiana3663]

Never knew they did a rendition of this tune. Very nice.

[@Jessica_Roth]

From the "Alive She Cried" album. Basically a selection of tracks that didn't make the cut for the "Absolutely Live" double-album (which is a MUST), but some pretty choice scraps. ("Light My Fire" is on this album, having been left off of the other one, interestingly enough.)

[@stuntmankrocmcginty4896]

And there's actually a line edited out of this that went a little too far for radio when this was finally released in the 80s. Eventually the full version came out.

[@musicdunc]

around mY sock?

[@stuntmankrocmcginty4896]

@@musicdunc yes, lol

[@vincentvancraig]

they did the most amazing covers EVER...god, they were so dope....check their cover of bo diddly's "who do u love?" the doors live version....elvis's "mystery train", but its called "black train song/away to india" (its completely crazy, like their "gloria" is crazy)....damn, man, the gd doors....no one like them, this made my day....i can tell brad is tranfixed by awesomeness and lex is all wide-eyed and mind-blown, lol.....i looked the exact same way when i was 17 and forst heard this in about 1993-ish.....so good...anyway, hell ya.

[@3qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq10]

Love Lex's reaction. She was into it and she thinks Jim's funny. I love seeing people so entertained by my cousin nearly fifty years after his death. And I'm still just as stoked about him being my cousin as the day I figured out that I'm related to the Lizard King.

[@ThisEpicLife]

I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume this is true: Very cool heritage! I went to Paris twice, and saw his grave. I grew up in the 80's, when The Doors were enjoying a surge in retro-popularity. I did my book report on No One Here Gets Out Alive, and caught some wrath from the teacher, who (not incorrectly) admonished me for choosing such poor role-models. I always loved their music though! BTW, I'm going as Jim Morrison for Halloween, and my wife is going as Janis Joplin. I went as far as custom-ordering reproductions of his famous leather pants, and his jacket. I meticulously searched for his famous concho-belt. Had the beaded necklace from his Rollingstones photo-shoot, and picked out an appropriate shirt. If I have a few drinks, I may even do some karaoke. (That's sort of what indirectly led me here). Cool family tree!

[@3qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq10]

I was adopted. I found my mother but still haven't found my dad. All of my cousin matches on Ancestry are related to Glenn Arden Matteson and Jennie Myrtle Clarke Matteson. There are multiple options for the relation to the Matteson couple and to my cousins so I have to guess at the connection. It appears there is no other possible connection to Jennie. She is Morrisons great aunt and the sister of his maternal grandfather Dalton Clarke. I enjoyed your comment. @@ThisEpicLife

[@perrymalcolm3802]

GREATEST BRAD LINE YET!! That’s a whole lot of organ” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍🏼👍🏼 Welcome to the 60s!! One of my top 2 Doors songs, Gloria is a Van Morrison/Them cover. A Rockin ballad to premature ejaculation! 😂 Morrison at his slyest!

[@joebruenger2323]

Whenever someone asks whats the best cover of a song I always answer with Gloria by the Doors and people never believe me that they covered it.

[@jeffreyflint6286]

Man were they great. Good choice.

[@quincee3376]

My favourite version and i rarely like covers. Obviously we don't get this song without the original by the great Van Morrison but i've always loved this cover more. Just my 2 cents.

[@billnorman8995]

Jim Morrison best scream in rock history

[@Aramisbyjoe]

Lex is melting over Jim's voice. lol And this is the clean version too

[@RicoBurghFan]

A whole lotta organ lmao! 🤣🤣🤣

[@joesmith8725]

Ok there, Bradford! lol

[@EarthyBlendPOV]

Lex is cracking me up at the end lol

[@lantose]

I don’t the Brad had a clue as to his comment to Lex about “that was a whole lot of organ”!

[@classiclife7204]

The best version, better than the other Morrison's (Van) version. Pure dirty teenager rock and roll. Iirc, this was a sound check, so it's live.

[@jonnno243]

Reminds me of living in the 60s and "Them" pounding out this marvellous song.

[@betsyduane3461]

This was a live sound check on an empty stage 7/22/69 Aquarius Theatre rehearsal, Los Angeles

[@djl9919]

Outstanding tune. Rock on Brad & Lex

[@gloriaberry3427]

One of the best versions of my song! Since my name is Gloria, I have heard a number of versions of GLORIA!

[@warmongerel9743]

I hadn't heard this song in 30 years, but I knew every note and every grunt before they happened. God, I loved this band. Intelligent but utterly chaotic. If you got in my car in the 80s, the odds were about 80% you were going to be listening to the Doors.

[@bobbyg7102]

The Soft Parade should be your next Doors reaction

[@dariootero6555]

" the Soft parade live in PBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@bobbyg7102]

@@dariootero6555 I think they should do the studio version for first listen

[@johnnyhelge1743]

@@bobbyg7102 studio version sucks, I love the organ in pbs

[@AdamVine]

That song was BANGING! They don't make 'em like they used to...just like everything else!

[@peterhall2810]

Originally written and performed by Van Morrison as a member of Them in the 1960's. The origanal is much more 'immediate, and bluesy. One of my favourite songs by Van who was still a teenager at the time.

[@tomrockwood851]

Yes

[@othervoices76]

This was a heavily edited version of their soundcheck at the Aquarius Theater. Robby, Ray and John also went and did some overdubs for this they put out for “Alive She Cried”. They also have a “Dirty” Outtake of Roadhouse Blues .

[@nodaysback8390]

That was cool.. I'm not sure I had ever heard that before?? Jimi Hendrix does a live version of Gloria that's really good also. "Mitch Mitchell's got a girl named Gloria, too..." 😉

[@CCDzine]

Ray Manzarek was a genius on those keyboards. Ever notice that The Doors had no bass player? Ray played all the bass parts with his left hand on one keyboard (often a Moog) while playing keyboard melodies with his right hand. His brain has some impressive powers of separation.

[@richardlovell4713]

In some of the studio recordings, they got real session bass players to later overdub Ray's bass lines to strengthen the sound.

[@michaellanning9396]

Love ❤️ Gloria and appreciate Jim's entertaining enthusiastic singing bout Gloria, she was in ecstacy, and probably high and on acid 😀 lo ve u all ✌️🕶

[@aaronarnold7653]

Aloha guys, Jim was the coolest...by far...His attitude, his charisma, his poetry...made a huge inpact on this young teen boy.....a hui hou...peace

[@3qqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqqq10]

Thanks man and me also. And then as a middle age man I find out he's my cousin. If you haven't already, check out a couple of his favorite poets. Arthur Rimbaud and Charles Baudelaire.

[@hollywoodpotato5289]

“That was a whole lotta organ”.. 😂 Yep. And yep.

[@jasonwilliams3967]

Cover song originally by the group 'Them' and I think U2 did a version later on.

[@JAMESMOORE-gq4vv]

I hope you know how blessed you are Brad. lol, wow.

[@timsimmons7916]

The intended audience for the Doors was high.

[@lantose]

It was prerequisite!

[@MadHauler]

Lol lex you couldn't of said it better that Organ was intense lol haaa

[@rhwinner]

You should do Patti Smith's version of this song....

[@eddyd3298]

Brad you look like those guys who burned rock and roll records in the 50s lol ✌

[@bradcolorado8149]

Saw Morrison in the 90's in a Colorado lumber yard..he pranked everyone and they bought it

[@ginnydominguez5493]

What a great cover love the doors.

[@chrismoore7287]

Lex is digging this A LOT!!! 😃

[@islandseeker1260]

The Doors performed a live version of this song that is MUCH more explicit. At the end, Jim teases the crowd saying, "You people spend much too much time in those restrooms, I tell you that. Hey, we know what you're doing in there." As a teenage boy dealing with puberty, this song tainted my perception of healthy relationships!

[@WoodLegPS]

Hands down the best version.

[@butchplz916]

This is the shit! Thanks for reacting! You should listen to the full uncensored version in your own time... They pushed boundaries for sure.

[@roberttompkins6489]

The "Shadows of Knight" released a version in 65 that went to #10 on the billboard chart.

[@kylescott413]

Ilove how much you(girl) gets The Doors . Morrison is inevitable.

[@pookiemartinez1745]

Jimi Hendrix also did this track.

[@junkphone5951]

That was a whole lot of organ....that's what she said 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@metronomix]

Ahhhhh The Doors.... u shoukd do some more

[@rutssy]

Great rendition and love your t shirt Lex

[@martinaubut9208]

Thanks for the rediscovery.

[@melvinvandegraaf2738]

I thought he was gonna say: "That was a whole lotta orgasm" Lol

[@christimanley13]

Well it was a whole lotta love!🙂

[@anthonyboyko3686]

Morrison and Jagger the bad boys of rock.

[@MrScottsearles]

Lex is thinking the "organ" and Brad is thinking organ.Lol.

[@TheSoloAsylum]

Sex, drugs, alcohol, rock and roll...and nothing else mattered. He filled himself with all of them.

[@jackandbuddy2997]

The sopranos boat scene.....class man

[@Fizzyphukoff]

The funny thing is this was the shortened censored version.

[@elizabethfranco1284]

I didn’t know the Doors did this. The only version I ever heard was from Them led by Van Morrison

[@jollyj3285]

Best version for me is Patti Smith's...and i prefer the live versions out there.....this is my second fave

[@theclash32]

yeah make me feel alright!!!

[@yekimsrennihs-yhprum2074]

When the Music's Over The Soft Parade Ghost Song 👌

[@James-wv3hx]

I always want to scream like Jimbo. 😂

[@vovindequasahi]

Brad is like - crickets - lol!!

[@joedonlewis9820]

Jim's daddy, a Rear Admiral, sent him to live in Laurel Canyon to protect him from the Vietnam War. Several of the famous artists there were the children of high ranking government officials. He died anyway.

[@tomroome4118]

I do believe this one made Lex blush!

[@TZ61]

Van Morrison wrote and recorded this with his group Them. Once you hear them doing the song, you'll realize this version can't hold a candle to it.

[@JeffSmith-io9qy]

I heard Morrison had an I.Q. of 149 making him a legit genius

[@stevenblock9712]

There will usually be "a whole lot of organ" in Doors songs. And "graphic" was Jim Morrison's trademark.

[@Dnrpres]

Please start reviewing old U2 from the late 70-early mid 80s

[@ghostdog7575]

This is the sanitized version that ended on the official live LP by Elektra records. There's the dirty version on yt

[@ericsmith6615]

Wife here..., This is a little Deeper Cut from these Guys..., Very 😎 Cool !!!

[@libraryfiles4470]

BRAD: Peaking LEX: Terrifying

[@surlechapeau]

Brad & Lex, you’ll love their “Love Me Two Times”!! edit- I agree with Mellie, the better version is by Them(the Irish rock band) with Van Morrison on vocals.

[@johnr.8275]

This is such a cleaned-up, edited version compared to the original live version it was taken from. The versions on "Backstage and Dangerous" and Felt Forum 1970 are positively filthy! The Doors at their dangerous, defiant best.

[@seansersmylie]

Where I'm from Lex, that face is called a beemer😆 In Ireland it's slightly more obvious because we have pale skin that turns bright red when flushed but you worked it well🤣

[@enterthecarp7085]

Y’all 3 steps ahead of me. Good choice

[@manuelrobledo8072]

She got excited by Morrison's performance😏

[@SofiUk0319]

It def was a Whole lot of organ ❤

[@edmundp123]

Recorded on a sound check before a concert

[@NDE239]

* and this is the clean version

[@omnisofos]

'Organ vs Orgasm. That really made my night'. Cheers guys !

[@timveaney4723]

Lex knows what's going on!

[@mikehutton3187]

The best version of this song. He makes it hilarious with the ad libbing.

[@matthewdooley7855]

Doors keyboards give them a distinctive sound. Pair it with a super charismatic front man like Jim Morrison, it's easy to make distinctive-sounding hit records. So much of this song just kind of sits right in the pocket; super-cool. Mundane yet raunchy story about what was happening in the suburbs while the parents were out; the sorts of things that parents did NOT think were happening. There's another "Gloria" song by VAN Morrison - also very cool, but not as explicit.