The Soft Parade
by The Doors
- Type: Album
- Released: 18 July 1969
- Label: Elektra
- Country: United States
- Length: 33:40
- Community rating: 3.23/5 from 6 ratings
Artists on this release: Robby Krieger, Reinol Andino, Jimmy Buchanan, Jesse McReynolds, Doug Lubahn, Jim Buchanan, Ray Manzarek, Curtis Amy, Harvey Brooks, Jim Morrison, Champ Webb, George Bohanon
Album Notes & Community Reviews
Highly controversial upon release due to its heavy use of brass and string orchestration, The Doors' fourth album remains a fascinating, deeply pop-oriented experiment. 'The Soft Parade' balances wonderfully lush, intensely melodic baroque-pop arrangements with Jim Morrison's fiercely passionate, remarkably nocturnal, and highly surreal psychedelic poetry.
Genres
Descriptors: melodic
Tracklist
- Tell All the People (3:20)
- Touch Me (3:10)
- Shaman's Blues (4:47)
- Do It (3:08)
- Easy Ride (2:41)
- Wild Child (2:35)
- Runnin' Blue (2:26)
- Wishful Sinful (2:55)
- The Soft Parade (8:34)
Credits
- The Doors - primary artist
- Paul Harris - arranged by [orchestra], orchestrator
- Doug Lubahn - bass
- Harvey Brooks - bass
- Reinol Andino - congas
- Jac Holzman - coordinator [production coordinator]
- Bruce Botnick - engineer
- Champ Webb - english horn, cor anglais solo
- Jim Buchanan - fiddle
- Jesse McReynolds - mandolin
- Paul A. Rothchild - producer
- Curtis Amy - saxophone, saxophone solo
- George Bohanon - trombone, solo trombone
- Robby Krieger - vocals, guitar
- William S. Harvey - art direction, design
- Peter Schumann - illustration
- Jimmy Buchanan - fiddle
- John Densmore - drums (drum set)
- Ray Manzarek - keyboard
- Joel Brodsky - photography
- Jim Morrison - vocal