Doors "Light My Fire" mono single version

My mono stock copy matches Ed's: 2:52 listed, 2:53 actual, same matrix number (Columbia Terre Haute pressing on yellow-gold & black Elektra "goddess" label.)

Edited by Yah Shure

MMathews wrote: Can anyone post the actual time of the 45? I have 3 versions of the 45 edit, 2 in mono and 1 in stereo and they are all at different speeds running 2:50, 2:52 and 2:53. Thanks

Those sound like differently listed times of the exact same original 1967 (1968 reissue) hit.


BTW there are of course two additional edits in that original 1960s version after the edit of the "endless" CD/LP-only four minute organ solo when the guitar solo kicks in with an edit of just a few seconds, right after the 1st, then another rather equally brief edit, so that as anyone familiar with the original hit single knows, there's 3 edits. 1 big and 2 little in the original Light My Fire, as is known already here.

The stereo 1970s Spun Gold Elektra reissue,(3:06 despite the 2:52 listing) of course, just has the one splice out of the four minute part. In short, the same big chunk then intact as on the stereo and mono LPs.

However, I have, off of SoulSeek, an identical mp3 version with either the first several guitar parts otherwise on all versions snipped out after the long organ solo, or the parts just after like the original, but otherwise the guitar solo right before the organ intro resumes IS intact. In short, again, the same big long organ sequences,then a bit more of that or right after with another guitar edit a la the mono hit, but otherwise intact till the end. Same slower speed and stereo mix.

Thus, this "new" edit is 3:02 but listed at 3:06-stop at 3:02 before the "timer" reaches the end." I wonder where this two-edit stereo reissue came from? The actual reissue in stereo of the single edited from the stereo 7+ album version is with just ONE edit-the organ solo.

Of course there are other differences with the 1967 original, like being faster, (actually original speed, not speeded u;p) and the recognizably different mono mix with vocal louder than instrumental.

Also the long version has for years been labeled "6:30","6:50" but at a local WalMart I found the CD of the original 1967 The Doors with THE RIGHT TIME-7:10 !

:)

Edited by Steve Carras

garye wrote: The Japanese Boxed Singles release (if you look it is avaailable at Ebay and Amazon's Japan site, the mono 45 of Light My Fire is the correct version, higher pitch making it sound faster. All the single releases are correct even Touch Me, which sometimes the mono 45 edit has been hard to fine. Worth owning.

   

The issue is now moot because of the new Singles set.

Is the 2:52 an exclusive mono mix or can it be recreated in stereo from the 7:08 LP version (seeing as there appears no stereo 2:52 to match it)? I always wondered this...

Edited by PopArchivist

Steve Carras wrote: The stereo 1970s Spun Gold Elektra reissue,(3:06 despite the 2:52 listing) of course, just has the one splice out of the four minute part. In short, the same big chunk then intact as on the stereo and mono LPs.

Interesting. In the 1980s, WLS in Chicago would play the song as an oldie, but would usually daypart the longer version at night and the shorter
version in the daytime (although sometimes the midday guy would play the long version just because he felt like it :) ). But it turns out what
they carted up in the 1980s was the reissue 45, not the original 45 (I assume the original 45 was what they played as a current--WLS played
everything off vinyl until about 1969 or 1970, and I don't remember if they ever carted up the original at any point).

Long way of saying it's why I always thought the (3:06) version was the original. How wrong I was.