Moonlight Drive

"Moonlight Drive"
Single by the Doors
from the album Strange Days
A-side"Love Me Two Times"
ReleasedSeptember 25, 1967
RecordedMay–August 1967
GenreBlues rock
Length
  • 2:16 (single)[1]
  • 3:00 (album version)[2]
LabelElektra
Songwriter(s)The Doors
Producer(s)Paul A. Rothchild
The Doors singles chronology
"People Are Strange"
(1967)
"Moonlight Drive"
(1967)
"The Unknown Soldier"
(1968)

"Moonlight Drive" is a song by American rock band the Doors, released in 1967 on their second album Strange Days. It was edited to a 2:16 length for the 45 rpm single B-side of "Love Me Two Times". Though a conventional blues arrangement, the track's defining feature was its slightly off-beat rhythm, and Robby Krieger's "bottleneck" or slide guitar, which creates an eerie sound.[3]

  1. ^ Love Me Two Times / Moonlight Drive (single label). The Doors. Elektra Records. 1967. EKS-45624-B.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  2. ^ Strange Days (Album notes). The Doors. New York City: Elektra Records. 1967. Back cover. EKS-74014.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
  3. ^ Fong-Torres, Ben. The Doors. New York City: Hyperion Books. p. 231. ISBN 978-1401303037.