[Mariner]

Well, I just got into town about an hour ago

Took a look around, see which way the wind blow

Where the little girls in their Hollywood bungalows

Are you a lucky little lady from The City of Lights?

Or just another lost angel?

City of Night, City of Night

City of Night, City of Night

L.A. woman, L.A. woman

L.A. woman, Sunday afternoon

L.A. woman, Sunday afternoon

L.A. woman, Sunday afternoon

Drive through your suburbs

Into your blues, into your blues, yeah

Into your blues, into your blues!

I see your hair is burning

Hills are filled with fire

If they say I never loved you

You know they are a liar

Driving down your freeways

Midnight alleys roam

Cops in cars, the topless bars

Never saw a woman so alone

So alone, so alone

Motel money murder-madness

Let's change the mood from glad to sadness

[Outro] Mr. Mojo Risin', Mr. Mojo Risin'

Mr. Mojo Risin', Mr. Mojo Risin'

Got to keep on risin'

Mr. Mojo Risin', Mr. Mojo Risin'

Mojo Risin', gotta Mojo Risin'

Mr. Mojo Risin', gotta keep on risin'

Risin', risin'

Gone risin', risin'

I'm gone risin', risin'

I gotta risin', risin'

Well, risin', risin'

I gotta, wooo, yeah, risin'

Whoa, oh yeah

Well, I just got into town about an hour ago

Took a look around, see which way the wind blow

Where the little girls in their Hollywood bungalows

Are you a lucky little lady in The City of Lights?

Or just another lost angel?

City of Night, City of Night

City of Night, City of Night, whoa, c'mon

L.A. Woman, L.A. Woman

L.A. Woman, you're my woman

Little L.A. Woman, Little L.A. Woman

L.A. L.A. Woman Woman L.A. Woman c'mon

[Steely Tom]

Cops in cars, the topless bars

Never saw a woman so alone

Those lines always reminded me of a line from the movie Rumble Fish.

The main character, Rusty James, dreams of going to California like his older brother, Motorcycle Boy. They both grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

At one point, he asks his brother what California is like, and Motorcycle Boy says this:

"California's like a beautiful, wild... beautiful, wild girl on heroin... who's high as a kite, thinkin' she's on top of the world, not knowing she's dying even if you show her the marks."

[PGR88]

I’m a rust-belt, snow-belt midwesterner. When I first went to SoCal as a kid in the 70s with family to visit cousins who lived near the beach - I thought I had stepped through a time-space portal into some advanced version of western civilization.

[greenishness]

I’ve never been a doors fan but this song I love. There is something about this song.

[Lurker]

I always preferred Peace Frog.

L

[Zeneta]

[Zeneta]

“Everything is broken up and Dances”

[Moonman62]

Billy Idol cover since he just became a citizen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ef3mFZzGM4M

[SamAdams76]

I first went to Los Angeles in 1981 and lived in that area for 3 years during the early 1980s. It was likely the tail end of the great years of LA. When I went back 20 years later, I hardly recognized the place.

But those early 1980s years had a lot of good memories. I remember taking two weeks of leave from the Marines in 1983 and spending the entire time on and around Venice Beach and Santa Monica. Used to take walks down Wilshire and Santa Monica Boulevard, through Beverly Hills and into Hollywood. Some parts were getting seedy but it was still very much the Southern California of legend with a lot of surfers plying the waves and rock and roll music blaring out of the cars driving by.

[Fast Moving Angel]

I figured appropriate in light of the devastating fires.

Don't forget the fire reference in Jimmy Buffett's "Fruitcakes":

Paradise - Lost and found
Paradise - take a look around
I was out in California
Where I hear they have it all
They got riots, fires and mud slides
They got sushi in the mall

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wneCa_yIuzg

There's a lot of truth in that ...

[Gay State Conservative]

I’m a child of the 60’s and 60’s music is still the soundtrack of my life.I used to love the Doors but IMO their work hasn’t aged well.Give me the early Stones,the early Who,the Beatles (through Revolver and Rubber Soul),the early Byrds...among others.

[BipolarBob]

Another member of the 27 club.

[LS]

We interviewed Robby Krieger in our film “Rockin’ the Wall” (2010).

[Bullish]

Never liked the Doors and disliked Morrison even more.

[HandyDandy]

“Bloody red sun of fantastic L.A.”
James Douglas Morrison

[newfreep]

Although I grew up as a HUGE Beatles fan, the Doors were always the MUCH better Rock and/or Roll band.

A few fun facts...
Morrison was a HUGE fan of Frank Sinatra and his voicing.

When the Doors walked into Sunset Recorders for their first album, Morrison's eyes immediately spotted a Neumann U-67 microphone, a legendary classic that was world renown for its' amazing midrange detail, ultra-low distortion and smooth sound quality...and it used a Telefunken vacuum tube to achieve that magical sound.

Morrison knew the U-47 (and later the U-67) was THE microphone Sinatra demanded be used in his recording sessions...and he got excited excited knowing he would record his vocals into the same mic used by Sinatra.

The Neumann U-67 was also famously used on the piano for the Beatles' "A Day In The Life".

Sinatra in Capitol Studios w/Neumann U-67

Beatles & Neumann U-47