“Hello I Love You” by The Cure

The Cure's take on "Hello I Love You" dates from 1990, and it's a wry choice of song to cover. The original belonged to the Doors, a 1968 single from Waiting for the Sun that topped the charts in the U.S. and Canada, yet Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore had come to regard it as a shallow bit of pop they'd long outgrown, and only cut it because Elektra leaned on them.

The Cure produced their version with Steve Whitfield, and Bryan "Chuck" New handled the mix. Whatever the Doors thought of the song, the countdowns kept coming back to the Cure's reading for more than two decades.

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