“Waiting For The Sun” by The Doors

"Waiting for the Sun" sits second on Morrison Hotel, the Doors' 1970 album, and its name has fooled plenty of listeners: it was meant to be the title track of their third album back in 1968, but the band decided it needed more work and kept the title anyway, because they liked it too much to let go. Jim Morrison wrote it, and they only brought it back after The Soft Parade, their fourth album, got a chilly reception, as a way of getting back to where they started.

It's a song of longing, of waiting for something new and beautiful to break over the horizon. Morrison sings, Robby Krieger plays guitar, Ray Manzarek is on keyboards and John Densmore on drums, with Paul A. Rothchild producing and Bruce Botnick engineering.

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