Greatest Hits (The Doors album)

Greatest Hits is a compilation album by American rock band the Doors, released in 1980. The album, along with the film Apocalypse Now, released the previous year, created an entirely new audience which was too young to have remembered the band years before. The album went on to become one of the highest selling compilations of all time, with combined CD and vinyl sales of 5,000,000 in the United States alone.

Greatest Hits
Greatest hits album by the Doors
Released	October 1980
Recorded	1966–1971
Genre	Rock
Length	48:10
Label	Elektra
Producer	Paul A. Rothchild Bruce Botnick the Doors
The Doors chronology
An American Prayer (1978) Greatest Hits (1980) Alive, She Cried (1983)

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]

The album was re-released in 1996 as an enhanced CD with a different track listing and cover art. The songs "The Ghost Song", "The End" and "Love Her Madly" were added, whereas "Not to Touch the Earth" was omitted.

Track listing

All songs written by the Doors (Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger, John Densmore). Details are taken from the 1980 Elektra Records release and may differ from other sources.[2]

Side one

No.	Title	Original album	Length
1.	"Hello, I Love You"	Waiting for the Sun (1968)	2:16
2.	"Light My Fire"	The Doors (1967)	7:05
3.	"People Are Strange"	Strange Days (1967)	2:10
4.	"Love Me Two Times"	Strange Days	3:14
5.	"Riders on the Storm"	L.A. Woman (1971)	7:11

Side two

No.	Title	Original album	Length
1.	"Break On Through (To the Other Side)"	The Doors	2:26
2.	"Roadhouse Blues"	Morrison Hotel (1970)	4:04
3.	"Not to Touch the Earth"	Waiting for the Sun	3:55
4.	"Touch Me"	The Soft Parade (1969)	3:11
5.	"L.A. Woman"	L.A. Woman	7:49

1995 additional CD tracks

1. "Love Her Madly" (Krieger) – 3:17
2. "The Ghost Song" (Morrison) – 4:13
3. "The End" – 6:28 (edited version for George S. Clinton from Apocalypse Now (1979))

Note: Japanese version of this CD has 13 tracks : Track 13 "Wintertime Love".

Personnel

The Doors

• Jim Morrison – vocals
• Robby Krieger – guitar
• Ray Manzarek – keyboards and backing vocals
• John Densmore – drums

Additional musicians

• Curtis Amy – saxophone on track 8 (CD)/track 9 (vinyl)
• Lonnie Mack - bass guitar
• Jerry Scheff – bass guitar on tracks 5 & 9-11
• Douglass Lubahn – bass guitar on tracks 1 & 3-4 (CD); tracks 1, 3-4, & 8 (vinyl)
• Marc Benno – rhythm guitar on track 10 (vinyl)/track 9 (CD)
• Larry Knechtel – bass guitar on track 2 (both formats) (was uncredited as such, however)
• Harvey Brooks – bass guitar on track 8 (CD)/track 9 (vinyl)
• George Bohanan – trombone
• Jesse McReynolds – mandolin
• John Sebastian – harmonica
• Paul Harris – orchestral arrangements on track 8 (CD)/track 9 (vinyl)

Other personnel

• Paul A. Rothchild – re-mastered by
• Bruce Botnick – original engineering
• Joel Brodsky – photography
• Ron Coro – original art direction
• Ray and Dorothy Manzarek, Ron Coro, Denise Minobe – original album design
• William Gazecki – re-mastering engineer

Charts

Chart	Year	Position
Billboard 200	1980	17[3]

Certifications

Region	Certification	Certified units/sales
Argentina (CAPIF)[4]	Gold	30,000^^
Australia (ARIA)[5]	2× Platinum	140,000^^
Canada (Music Canada)[6] CD edition	5× Platinum	500,000^^
Canada (Music Canada)[6] LP edition	2× Platinum	200,000^^
France (SNEP)[7]	Gold	100,000^*
United Kingdom (BPI)[8]	Silver	60,000^^
United States (RIAA)[9] CD edition	2× Platinum	2,000,000^^
United States (RIAA)[10] LP edition	3× Platinum	3,000,000^^
^* Sales figures based on certification alone. ^^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References

1. AllMusic
2. Greatest Hits (Album notes). The Doors. Burbank, California: Elektra Records. 1980. LP labels. SE-515.CS1 maint: others (link)
3. "The Doors Chart History: Billboard 200". Billboard.com. 2019. Archived from the original on September 20, 2019.
4. "Discos de oro y platino" (in Spanish). Cámara Argentina de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas. Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 15 August 2012.
5. "ARIA Charts – Accreditations – 2001 Albums". Australian Recording Industry Association. Archived from the original on 10 August 2020.
6. "Canadian album certifications – The Doors – Greatest Hits". Music Canada.
7. "French album certifications – Doors – Greatest Hits" (in French). InfoDisc. Select DOORS and click OK. 
8. "British album certifications – Doors – Greatest Hits _1996_". British Phonographic Industry. Select albums in the Format field. Select Silver in the Certification field. Type Greatest Hits _1996_ in the "Search BPI Awards" field and then press Enter.
9. "American album certifications – The Doors – Greatest Hits _1996_". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH. 
10. "American album certifications – The Doors – Greatest Hits _LP_". Recording Industry Association of America. If necessary, click Advanced, then click Format, then select Album, then click SEARCH.