| "Hello, I Love You" | ||||
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| Single by the Doors | ||||
| from the album Waiting for the Sun | ||||
| B-side | "Love Street" | |||
| Released | June 11, 1968 by Nipper Music Co., Inc.[1] | |||
| Recorded | February–May 1968 | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 2:13 | |||
| Label | Elektra | |||
| Songwriter(s) | The Doors[1] | |||
| Producer(s) | Paul A. Rothchild | |||
| The Doors singles chronology | ||||
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"Hello, I Love You" is a song recorded by American rock band the Doors for their 1968 album Waiting for the Sun. Elektra Records released it as a single that same year, which topped the charts in the U.S. and Canada. Although the Doors are credited as the songwriters, songs by other artists have been identified as likely sources.
Apart from the single's success, a portion of the band's fans have dismissed the tune, arguing that it does not represent the Doors sound, due to its commercial nature and shallow lyrics.[4] The Doors themselves strongly objected when Elektra Records pressured them to record the song for their third album, since it was one of the first songs they played together and they felt it represented a shallow pop approach that they had long since evolved beyond.[5]
- ^ a b Library of Congress. Copyright Office. (1968). Catalog of Copyright Entries 3D Ser Vol 22 Pt 5 Secs 1-2. United States Copyright Office. U.S. Govt. Print. Off.
- ^ Luhrssen, David; Larson, Michael (2017). Encyclopedia of Classic Rock. ABC-CLIO. p. 97. ISBN 978-1440835148.
Also on Waiting for the Sun was the brisk rocker 'Hello, I Love You' ...
- ^ a b Planer, Lindsay. "The Doors – 'Hello, I Love You'". AllMusic. Retrieved April 14, 2021.
This very pop-oriented tune also demonstrates the multiplicity of the Doors as both a definitive envelope-pushing and conscious-shattering psychedelic band and a straight-ahead '60s pop/rock combo.
- ^ Botnick, Bruce; Williams, Paul (2007). "Introduction by original Doors engineer-producer". Waiting for the Sun (CD booklet). Rhino Records. p. 7.
- ^ Wall, Mick (October 30, 2014). Love Becomes a Funeral Pyre: A Biography of the Doors. UK: Hachette Books. p. 252. ISBN 978-1409151258.