WHAT JUST HAPPENED?!| FIRST TIME HEARING The Doors - Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar) REACTION

[@BogeyDopeYT]

This is originally a German song from 1925 if irc. The Doors changed the line from “the next pretty boy” to “the next little girl”….which was a common way to refer to women in 60’s slang. Not kids, in case you were wondering. Reference Lynyrd Skynrd “ what’s your name little girl” and various other songs. The Doors transformed the original into a psychedelic carnival fun house….because that’s what they do. The End is a really trippy vibe with some interesting lyrics. Check it out.

[@hilarywilliams1909]

From a German opera and sung by prostitutes, thus "the next pretty boy" from original lyrics.

[@DanielCastillo-cn3pp]

Exactly .. I Just read the history behind the song... it's an old song ...

[@MikePhillips-pl6ov]

Yes. Waiting for 'The End'. Thought they may have done it, but no as it 'weirder' than anything they've done by the band so far!

[@egonnowicki9593]

Being German and recognizing traditional polka your comment was in every way a perfect explanation. Thank you.

[@pinkstarphoenix6182]

I'd love to see their reaction to Horse Latitudes! Talk about a strange song.....

[@tycamden2630]

"Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)" by The Doors is a cover of a German poem written by Berthold Brecht and published in 1927 in his collection Hauptpostille. Kurt Weill adapted it in 1929 for their opera contribution Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny as a song. The song is about the search for the next whiskey bar, which is a metaphor for the search for escape from the harsh realities of life. The lyrics suggest that if they don't find the next whiskey bar, they will die. The song also mentions the moon of Alabama and the loss of their good old mama, which could be interpreted as a reference to the Great Depression. The song has themes of materialism, despair, and illicit pleasures.

[@CLRoess]

Interesting explanation!

[@bluebird3281]

The German song references "the moon of Alabama" as well?

[@barrycohen311]

@@bluebird3281 Yes, Correct.

[@barrycohen311]

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[@kevanbodsworth9868]

@@CLRoess Its the real explanation ....I knew the basis was Kurt Weill and the stage piece it wasused for The rest fits well

[@markhagerman1837]

LA Woman is a top 5 driving song for me. The Doors were really only around for like four or five years. One of the most influential and important bands ever.

[@tarafied7322]

The second verse isn't a big mystery. 😁 They've had their whiskey, now they're looking for a woman. Back in the day, just because they said "little girl" or "baby" or whatever, or even " my old lady" it doesn't have anything to do with age. It's just means a woman.

[@Serai3]

There's a tendency to interpret lyrics way too literally now.

[@Rock2005Star]

​@@Serai3 Yessss!!!

[@nzlemming]

Maybe. The original line was "the next pretty boy", which was a thing in Brechtian theatre, where the song originated. I'm pretty sure Jim knew exactly what he was sining - he just din't want people to think he was gay.

[@okantichrist]

@@Serai3 Thank you feminists 🤣

[@watchmanschannelofdespair]

Yep and don't forget chick, chickie, dame, bird (UK), etc.

[@joiedevivre2005]

"The Crystal Ship" is my favorite Doors song. Jim Morrison's voice is absolutely hypnotic & Ray Manzarek's keyboard work is unbelievably beautiful. The entire song is just hauntingly mesmerizing perfection (imho).

[@BenLapke]

Agree

[@speedyhairyson]

Me too.

[@saramatthews7159]

Oh that song is soooo beautiful

[@dagmar.6954]

I remember this song by The Doors. Not a lot of people react to it. It has a really different sound to it. They have a lot of great songs such as "The End", "Break On Through (To The Other Side)", "People Are Strange", "Light My Fire", "Hello, I Love You", "Touch Me", "The Unknown Soldier", "Love Her Madly". Sadly Jim Morrison died in 1971 at the age of only 27 but left a great legacy of music.

[@MikePhillips-pl6ov]

I think they've done a couple of these you list.

[@peterworth9403]

My fave (that I just suggested) is "When the Music's Over." It's just...that song for me by them. Though, they have a few that just suck you in.

[@polferiferus1938]

Lotta Lenya sang this song earlier. It’s from 1920s Germany. I love both versions!

[@Problembeing]

The "Alabama Song" was written as a German poem and translated into English for the author Bertolt Brecht by his close collaborator Elisabeth Hauptmann in 1925 and set to music by Kurt Weill for the 1927 play Little Mahagonny. This song was actually very popular in German caberet bars. It wasn't written by The Doors, but a cover version :) David Bowie also did a magnificent cover.

[@MrHws5mp]

By 'little girl' he just means 'young woman': it was common slang in the '60s/'70s to call women 'little girl', 'mama' or 'old lady' irrespective of their actual age. You need, that is to say NEED, to do 'The End' by The Doors. It's long but it's totally worth it and oh boy, is it a trip...

[@EricKing]

This is a very old song, and predates this rendition by The Doors by decades. Many bands in the 50's and 60's remade this song, it was very well known back then.

[@proudliberal605]

Only "The Beatles" could pull off something like this because George Martin wouldn't release it until he got the proper symphony orchestra components integrated as well as some proper studio engineering (which in that era, only George Martin did).

[@johncampbell756]

Wikipedia: "The "Alabama Song"-also known as "Moon of Alabama", "Moon over Alabama", and "Whisky Bar"-is an English version of a song[clarification needed] written by Bertolt Brecht and translated from German by his close collaborator Elisabeth Hauptmann in 1925 and set to music by Kurt Weill for the 1927 play Little Mahagonny. It was reused for the 1930 opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and has been recorded by the Doors and David Bowie."

[@seanswinton6242]

The Doors at their most fun. A great drinking song!

[@lonbecker113]

Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht were part of the movement in Germany celebrated in the musical Cabaret. Germany had been taken down a peg in the first World War (going into that war Germany dominated the world in science, philosophy, music, and on and on, so losing a war was rather a shock. The US would take over that role after World War II in part by taking in all of the Germans that had to flee from the Nazis, including Brecht and Weill, although Brecht did not stay long because of his communist leanings). They are best known for the great musical Three Penny Opera which is a celebration of decadence. (Mack the Knife is just about the most upbeat song about a murderer that one can imagine, except maybe for the Beatles Maxwell's Silver Hammer). If you listen to the Bobby Darin version (as you should) first listen without paying attention to the lyrics, and then listen to the lyrics. The disconnect is pretty incredible. This song was written to be sung by Weill's wife Lotte Lenya, who was playing a prostitute, which makes a lot of sense of the lyrics.

[@swingsloth]

Enigmatic is the word you're looking for. Such talent lost so early can only breed mythology.

[@Robsan40]

You still have one of the Door's biggest hits to do: "Light My Fire" - Make sure to read the comments when you do that song, there's some great stories behind it.

[@blackblake3658]

Sometimes the big hits are blocked/copyright issues.

[@Robsan40]

@@blackblake3658 - That's true. Many reaction channels avoid The Eagles & Don Henley because they get copyright strikes.

[@chuckaustin3832]

I too have been asking for this FOR A LOOOOONG TIME. LIGHT MY FIRE - THE LONG VERSION.

[@MikePhillips-pl6ov]

Must be the studio version

[@gandhialwaysleavesanonion679]

@@chuckaustin3832 Me too, specifically the long version. Should've definitely came before this song

[@metalcubana3004]

This and Peace Frog are my absolute favorite Doors songs ❤

[@NDE239]

And the Tribute Band Peace Frog aren't that bad either

[@batmanforpresident9655]

Too many to choose from...but Peace Frog is certainty one of them. Also, I love "Not To Touch The Earth" and "Tell All The People".

[@NDE239]

@batmanforpresident9655 I have seen Wild Child at the Whiskey a Go Go and Robbie showed up on a July 03 show

[@HEWfunkingKNEWit]

Peace frog yes

[@BogeyDopeYT]

Peace Frog is great.

[@gtrgar4561]

Fun Reaction. The song used a very obscure instrument - A Marxophone, which is a Zither played by using a keyboard to strike the strings with metal hammers. It is part of what gives the song its carnival sound - a cross between Mandolin and a hammered dulcimer, bright and jangly. Another song off this same debut album is "Twentieth Century Fox". Cheers 🎸😎

[@netzahuacoyotl]

Thanks for the info.

[@namesameasu]

"Light My Fire" -- the song after this on the album, is their biggest hit, their breakthrough hit, and most iconic song.

[@RicoBurghFan]

Every Doors song is an adventure into an alternate world where you don't know to expect. Such an amazingly eclectic band, they were right up there with the Beatles in that regard.

[@VIDSTORAGE]

This is very light for the Doors , nice cool one... WHEN THE MUSIC'S OVER -song- ,,it will take you to another place . ..

[@paulrogers4483]

You guys haven't done the Doors till you've done The End. It's bizarre yet beautiful, haunting, intriguing, and twisted. One of my personal favorite products of Jim's warped and beautiful mind. It's a bit long but the experience is so so worth it. You will never be the same after it that's for sure ✌️Peace✌️

[@aaradia]

The End is one of my favorite songs by them, but I don't think they will like it. Honestly, I think the deeper they delve into the Doors, the less they will like them. They are cheery happy people, very good natured and family wholesome. But the Doors, as I am sure you know, delve into dark depressing disturbing themes. The End, with it Oedipal references, suicidal murderous thoughts, poetical talking style in parts of it..... nah- I would be very surprised if they like it.

[@paulrogers4483]

@@aaradia Exactly 😄

[@MikePhillips-pl6ov]

​@@aaradia you could be right - but I think Amber might like it as it's spacey and trippy.

[@MikePhillips-pl6ov]

No spoilers either, please... 😂

[@johnthompson3522]

As odd as it is this my favorite doors tune. I saw Jay’s look on the second verse. It was a different time. Little girl met 18 to early 20s

[@snowbirdlady8496]

Crystal Ship is a Doors song that doesn't get much play, but it's one of my favorites. Love the way Jim sings this one!

[@lydiaporto8700]

This song reminded me of the song “ Those Were the Days My Friend”. They are different. The doors song was good because they were doing different notes, up and down. They really accomplished it well.

[@matthewmarcinko9157]

YES! One of the COOLEST songs The doors ever recorded! This is a good old fashioned drinking song! Hoist them beer mugs up high and drink to life! I LOVE THE DOORS!!!!!!

[@spiritwalker497]

Two very underrated heavy blues rock bangers from The Doors are the Changeling and Maggie Magill.

[@diceportz7107]

"Miss Maggie McGill, She lives on a hill..." I love that song.

[@nicholasbowen1825]

Oh man i hope they do The Changeling. That would be amazing.

[@frogsterjonesiii6482]

"Well I'm an old blues man and I think that you understand. I've been singin' the blues ever since the world began." One of the best lines all time.

[@ladyamythyst69]

Another great funhouse vibe song you haven’t done is Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite by the Beatles. John Lennon wrote it when he was inspired by a vintage circus poster he saw in a shop.

[@John_Locke_108]

Lyrics are pretty simply. It's just about bar hopping, drinking, and finding a pretty lady.

[@soldonHim]

Hard to believe you listened to this song (I've never heard it before) before you listened to "Light My Fire". You gotta hear that next...

[@juliecomer9468]

David Bowie did a great version of this too. He makes it very haunting. The Doors and David Bowie never followed anyone. They both had their own separate styles.

[@surlechapeau]

Jay & Amber, don't see a reaction to "LA Woman", did it get blocked?? If not, its a must hear, Jim's vocals are Amazing!!

[@noneyourbiz8886]

Yesss!!! My fav band of all time

[@peterworth9403]

You guys should REALLY listen to "When The Music's Over" by The Doors. Hands down one of their best songs. It's s long one, but you won't regret it. Not a misfire anywhere in the song. In fact, now that I've mentioned it, I absolutely have to go listen to it, or I'm going to be singing it to myself all night. I done earwormed myself. But seriously. It's a masterpiece, and with the way you two appreciate music, you'll get utterly lost in that one.

[@saramatthews7159]

Their live version of this song is my favorite!!!

[@rickpetersen1745]

This was the Drinking song by Doors. It was innavitable in the late 60s that someone would come into the bar, drope a quarter in the jukebox and this would be one of the songs that they played.

[@K.Boat7744]

The look on js face was priceless😀😀😀

[@hilarywilliams1909]

It is surprising to me that I don't see a reaction from you to their first and most famous hit, "Light My Fire". You really must do it.

[@bethcushway458]

Little girl doesnt mean child it means young woman. This song always makes me think of a janky fairground full of drunk adults.

[@SteveInTheOC]

You sing this with your drunk m8’s. At least i did. 🤣 yayy whiskey! 🥃

[@gkiferonhs]

I'm gonna' keep pushing you to keep up with your Beatles. Paperback Writer is a sound of theirs you've not heard. Luv you guys. Have a great day!!

[@blackblake3658]

They've done plenty of Beatles. Only four Earth Wind and Fire. They could do Beatles😁 and EWF Got to Get You into My Life.

[@geraldarsenault275]

@@blackblake3658 beatles are dangerous could get yputube strike

[@MikePhillips-pl6ov]

Yeah sure we all love The Beatles too, but let's get some more Doors in, they've done a lot more Beatles. Spread the love!

[@kentclark6420]

The song 'Strange Days,' which is the title song from the album, is even trippier than 'People are strange', off the same album. It really sets the tone for the album, being the first song, and is a mixture of strange, (curiously enough), and psychedelic. Very psychedelic!

[@billmurray7338]

This song goes back to the 1920s, from the same guy that gave us Mack the Knife. Bowie covered it as well.

[@hectorsmommy1717]

This is written by Kurt Weill who also wrote Mack the Knife.

[@wadsworthaaron]

Taken from a Berthold Brecht tune, it's such an innovative rock & roll song from the Doors. Nobody else would have thought of using 1920s alternative theater as an influence. Genius stuff!

[@vicprovost2561]

What an awesome song, we downed a few shots ourselves listening to this back in the day. The Doors are indeed an enigma, wrapped in a mystery, I always just zoned out and grooved to this one, remembering bars I heard this at. How about another Doors epic next? Try their masterpiece When the Music's Over, a true classic, studio or live, buckle up and enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶

[@MikePhillips-pl6ov]

Agree. But start with all studio versions first - live ones then better appreciated.

[@vicprovost2561]

@@MikePhillips-pl6ov That's also what I would do but reactors often take whatever link they are given and don't care, they are just happy to hear way better music than most modern artists.

[@louisesteele1367]

I remember sitting in this dark tiny down stairs bar in Amsterdam in the early 90s smoking a big ole scooby and looking at this guy in a black turtleneck making his way down the stairs ……. All of a sudden ….. boom boom boom boom “People are strange” ……. Never ever have I forgot that moment - magical

[@bradsullivan2495]

Lyrics: Well show me the way To the next whiskey bar Oh don't ask why Oh don't ask why Show me the way To the next whiskey bar Oh don't ask why Oh don't ask why For if we don't find The next whiskey bar I tell you we must die I tell you we must die I tell you, I tell you I tell you we must die Oh moon of Alabama We now, must say goodbye We've lost, our good old Mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why Oh, moon of Alabama We now must say goodbye We've lost, our good old Mama And must have whiskey Oh, you know why

[@Rollin_L]

The character this song is written for is a "working girl" to put it politely. The line was originally "Show me the way to the next little boy" and, in the context of the character and her fellow girls, they refer to their next "customer." If they don't find customers, they will not make money and, thus, they "must die." A whiskey bar is where customers will likely be found. So the Doors changed the words a bit and the melody as well. It's one of their more unique choices, but The Doors made it their own. Look up the original version with singer Lotte Lenya for what the song originally sounded like. This song was always sung in English, even within the original German language work, Little Mahagonny and its more elaborate successor, the Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny.

[@Kuesel68]

The song was from the German expressionist Bertold Brecht and already 40 years old when The Doors recorded it. It was, as several commentors already mentioned written in German and then translated into English. It was also used by Brecht for the opera Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny. But The Doors turned it into a big circus-music hit. Funny enogh before the band was redescovered during the neo hippie movement of the mid-late 80s it was THE song people knew by the band (and Light my Fire). At least here in Europe :D It was even sung by the boy scouts who wanted to be cool!

[@alexanderdumas123]

One of my favorite songs by The Doors.

[@dnazen]

Hey Jay and Amber, love your reactions, first time commenter but the reason this song is sort of different is its actually a cover of a song originally written in German for a play on the 1920s. I'm sure lots of other people will mention this and tell you more but i thought I would let you know since it's kind of baffling without the context.

[@billbois]

Exactly. It's from "Little Mahogany," a play by Berthold Brecht, a German writer. The music is by Kurt Weill. It debuted in 1927, almost a hundred years ago!

[@Jessica_Roth]

As others have noted, this is an adaptation of a song from an opera by the team of Berthold Brecht and Kurt Weill, who were a creative force darkly illustrating the chaos of Germany between the fall of the Kaiser and the rise of Hitler. (If you've seen the movie "Cabaret" with Liza Minelli, that's a retrospective look back at that time.) You've actually heard Brecht/Weill before; Bobby Darin's "Mack the Knife" is adapted from their "Three-Penny Opera" The Doors had a certain amount of cultural education; on this same album is a song called "End of the Night", which is set to a poem by William Butler Yeats, called "Endless Night". (1967 must have been a big year for a Yeats revival; Agatha Christie put out one of her great suspense novels, "Endless Night", revolving around the same poem that same year.) And of course Morrison himself wrote poems, but those songs ("The End", "When the Music's Over", "The Celebration of the Lizard", "The Soft Parade") run too long for you decide to react to, alas. Although, I think "The Soft Parade is only 8.30 or so, so perhaps you could squeeze it in it. As the saying goes, "I don't know much about art, but I know what I like". Keep gong with Jim/Ray/Robbie/John! Hope you come to love these.

[@HellenKillerProject]

"I Will Never Be Untrue" This is one of the most honest tunes. Everything it needs in a sweetly sad package ... Any bar deep in the middle of nowhere ... "I Will Never Be Untrue" This was a warm up tune. "The Bright Midnight Archives Concerts" To me it creates a soft and sweet image. "Whiskey Bar" was a song from the 1930s.

[@djd2819]

Am a younger boomer so was too young to hear this when it first came out. By the mid 70s, most of The Doors albums were delisted and unobtainable but their first album (the one with this song) was always available. I bought it on a whim and was BLOWN AWAY. They recorded six albums in the four years from their first album to Jim's death and while three of them were uneven (IMO), their first, Morrison Hotel, and LA Woman were solid albums from start to finish. Still, they recorded for only FOUR YEARS!!!

[@MikeB12800]

This is why The Doors are amazing!! They did what they wanted to do! A cover of this on their debut album!!!!

[@seajaytea9340]

Another fun song, unexpected on a "rock" album, by the Doors is Spanish Caravan (great guitar work!).

[@richardtaylor8595]

One of my favorite songs by The Doors. So glad you are doing this tune. My other favorite is Cars Pass by My Window. Please check it out.

[@duder4480]

Great song!

[@kbusby4824]

LA Woman, The End, Light My Fire, Crystal Ship, Peace Frog, Waiting for the Sun, Moonlight Ride so many Doors classics yet to hear and to react. Enjoy!

[@giuseppesenatore6053]

My favourite songs by them are "Light my fire" and "Peace frog"

[@ladyamythyst69]

They’ve got to listen to Peace Frog. My favorite Doors song.

[@MikePhillips-pl6ov]

Peace Frog is so overlooked. Very uptempo, very funky - with dark lyrics!

[@kobrien2424]

Peace Frog is the best Doors song… hands down!!!

[@kobrien2424]

“Peace Frog” is a must… funky and trippy all in one!!!

[@christyzeeaquarianated2600]

My 11 year old son is currently obsessed with this song, and I'm not mad about it 😂 He breaks out my Doors vinyl at least twice a day, I bloody love it!

[@OldMusicFan83]

50 year old bar-hopping song. Have to be hammered to truly appreciate this

[@jamiemcpherson5068]

This was from a musical, Little Mahogany, written by Berlot Brecht and Kurt Weill 1925-1927, translated from German and re-used in their opera, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahogany. Great song!

[@johnnielson4341]

Sit down and listen to all of the Doors first album. Every single song is a monster hit.

[@otisroseboro5613]

Rip To A Great Singer, Songwriter Jim Morrison,We Still Miss You Always

[@mineduck3050]

My children, all three, have requested this song since 3yrs old.

[@radicaladz]

Whilst the "little girl" line is something that reads VERY differently today, the fact it made Jay and Amber sit up and pay attention and want to know what the meaning of it actually was, speaking as someone who studied Brecht and his theatre practices, definitely feels like something that would put a smile on his face. His whole modus operandi was about getting in the audience's face and shaking them awake - he thought that theatre's pursuit of "realism" was just a more insidious version of melodrama, where the audience wasn't actively engaging with the thing more, just letting themselves be lulled into complacency. Modern cinema could learn a lot from Brecht.

[@vellaropedart9190]

When they recorded this song,during the chorus, everyone who was in the studio (including producers and engineers) sang the chorus together under one mic,which probably is what gives it that "hoist your steins" feel.

[@pushpak]

Brecht, Weill and Lotte Lenya!

[@twenty3enigma]

Yes. Ray suggested this song from Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht's 1927 "The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny" -- and the rest said "Hell yeah!"

[@resurrectionwaiting9294]

Originally from a German language musical/play. David Bowie also did a great version of it.

[@SusanJohnston]

I have merry go round vibes! Lol😂😂Tangle! Dark fun house! Ringleader! Perfect analogy Jay! Go guy!!❤❤

[@thegingergyrl455]

So fun to sing this with a crowd! This is one of my favorite doors songs.❤

[@brendaekdridge3523]

Watching Jay’s reaction is hilarious. Love this

[@MikePhillips-pl6ov]

If a song is too quirky or he doesn't work out the lyrics, Jay seems to stick there at that point with a puzzled look, and not move on with the song! Funniest was his reaction to The B-52s' Rock Lobster! We love him for being Jay though!

[@jamesdamiano8894]

Listen to "Light My Fire". This song was also done by David Bowie. He puts his own spin on songs he redo's such as "Let's Spend The Night Together" by The Stones or "I Can't Explain" by The Who and even "See Emily Play" an early Pink Floyd song.

[@JamesSmith-ti5jc]

1/more, ( movie & music) Eddie And The Cruisers, W/ John Cafferty, And The Beaver Brown Band On The Dark Side 😁😁😁

[@jeremyfagner6808]

Absolutely love this song!!

[@jamesklotz7824]

La woman is one of there best .a real banger & rocker

[@jameswarner5809]

This immediately precedes Light My Fire on the original The Doors album. You couldn't have much more of a contrast.

[@david_aloni]

Just a bit of interesting background on the song: It was written in the mid-1920s by the famous German theater collaborators, playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill (and translated into English by Elisabeth Hauptmann in 1925). It's surprising that the Doors would have even knew it existed. Oh, moon of Alabama We now must say goodbye We've lost our good old mama And must have whiskey, oh, you know why

[@Nuerth]

You need to also acknowledge Ray Manzarak(the keyboard player)too when you speak of the Doors Yes Jim sang & yes he mostly wrote the lyrics,but it was Ray who wrote the music

[@kingoffire9373]

Ayyy the alabama song! Fun story, lived in alabama all my life and i had a couple buddies that would hang out and drink at parties and stuff when I was in my late teens early 20s and whenever we were drinkin whiskey late at night we'd turn this one up. There would be about 5 or so of us in the middle of a huge party all grabbin each other by the shoulders swaying and singing "We've loooost our good ol maaamaa, and must have whiskey oh ya know why!" We never tried to understand it we just drank and sang

[@gemeloreacciona]

Guys, now you were baffled by this song. With The End his head will explode.

[@mikenutter9418]

This is from the same German play that gave us the song "Mack The Knife". The bass guitar has that "Oom-pa" feel of a tuba.

[@MaggieValera]

You guys need to watch The Doors - Live at Hollywood Bowl, it's here on KZbin. Inasmuch as I absolutely love Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek is the one to watch. He's playing this organ and he's damned near making love to it. It's almost as if he's in a trance and lures you into it too. Mesmerizing.

[@LittleWolf194]

To fully understand 'Alabama Song' you must hear German singer Lotte Lenya perform it live in 1966! And in that vein listen and watch another awesome German Cabaret singer Ute Lemper! This will make your musical journey to another dimension :) Try 'Pirate Jenny'!!!

[@DavidOliver-j8u]

This is from the Rise and Fall of the city Mahoganny, by Kurt Weil lyrics by Bertolt Brecht. David Bowie also has a version, as do many other contemporary artists.

[@johnsilva9139]

Yes, and the musical takes place in Alabama I believe. Weil and Brecht fled Nazi Germany in the 1930's and came to the U.S. You of course can hear the German "oom-pah" band beat in The Doors rendition. I'm a little surprised Jay and Amber don't do a little research into the songs and artists they're about to play beforehand.

[@Krzyszczynski]

@@johnsilva9139 I see where you're coming from, but sometimes, to get a genuine reaction, it's best NOT to know too much beforehand. I've made one recommendation to Jay and Amber which definitely would have far less of an impact if they tried to find out anything about it or the performer.

[@lorizrhythm8171]

Best not to try to understand Jim Morrison...just enjoy him, LOL!

[@jessortiz8181]

Alabama Song or Moon over Alabama and Whisky Bar is an English version of a song written by Bertolt Brecht and translated from German by his close collaborator Elizabeth Hauptmann in 1925 and set to music by Kurt Weill for the 1927 play little Mahagonny. It was reused for the 1930 opera Rise and fall of the City of Mahagonny and has been recorded by the Doors and David Bowie. Jim Morrison was a very educated man in his life and I am sure in his lifetime he read about alot of things. You guys have to remember that Jim Morrison was mainly a poet at heart. Rockstar second. Of the illustrated books that I have looked at about him and the Doors he was always having his face buried in a book. He studied about poets like William Blake and Aldous Huxley as well as Greek mythology and probably alot of other things as well. Seriously you guys have got to consider reacting to Oliver Stone's The Doors movie at some point. You will be pleasantly surprised by who ends up playing Jim Morrison himself but you are going to love it Amber and Jay.

[@KrazyKat007]

A definitive Doors song you two got to listen to. “Not to Touch the Earth” This is an iconic song, with an iconic sound. It was the song where Jim Morrison dubbed himself The Lizard King

[@alancherrier7776]

Its a German bar drinking song written in the 20s..a cover tune by the Doors🎶

[@bigbow62]

The best thing about Jim is that you never know what you're gonna get... Remember, Jim was a poet first singer 2nd, not that applies directly to this song but again w/The Doors... Just jump on and enjoy the ride it might not take you exactly where you wanted to go, but you will have fun getting there ✌️🙂

[@geminiacleo7ewe]

Every time I hear this song I can't help but think of "Shawn of the Dead"

[@vellaropedart9190]

Also,you guys REALLY need to give "The Crystal Ship" a listen,from the same album. This represents Jim's "crooner" side.

[@Problembeing]

It's a drunken song from an opera set in the debauchery of Berlin nightlife. It's a song about getting drunk and prostitutes (not actual little girls necassarily), but it is meant to be a song about depravity and salcious sexual drunken debauchery until death.

[@budabk]

The original lyric was "next little boy" who could have been a gay prostitute or an actual little boy. The Weimar Republic and Berlin's cabaret scene were renowned for sexual and homosexual debauchery. It is one of the reasons Hitler and the Nazi Party wanted to overthrow the republic.

[@jimdavis4145]

"When the Music's Over" turn out the light!

[@mcdc7775]

This is the best! I’ve been waiting to see you do more Doors!

[@kevinmclaughlin1092]

You gotta do WHEN THE MUSIC'S OVER and their epic masterpiece, THE END. You'll never be the same.

[@stephenroberts8964]

How confused you both look haha, it's a cover version, don't panic. Glad you enjoyed.

[@catherinelynnfraser2001]

Lotte Lenya brings out the dark in this one. Her version of “Mack the Knife” is epic.

[@williamburnham3659]

Kurt Weil"s version first performed by his wife the great Lotte Lenya (Rosa Kleb in On Her Majesty's Secret Service) who also performed the definitive Mack the Knife

[@cazgerald9471]

Lyric stanza from Van Morrison's "Up County Down" (2021) I was playing at the Whiskey When The Doors were opening up Sometimes I sat there drinking...

[@gluteusmaximus1657]

There is a album out that has songs of Brecht/Weill. September Songs. Nick Cave, William S. Burroughs, Lou Reed and others !! Another album: Lost in the Stars/The music of Kurt Weill. Sting, Tom Waits, Marianne Faithful, The Fowler Bros and etc

[@ericm8025]

Gotta be entering a parallel dimension to really appreciate this song