[2019-11-01] The Doors "The Soft Parade (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)" limited numbered 3CD/1LP set (Elektra/Rhino)

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:49 pm

Description
The Doors’ fourth studio album, The Soft Parade, became the band’s fourth straight Top Ten album when it was released 50 years ago today on July 18, 1969. Despite featuring one of the group’s biggest hits – “Touch Me” – it remains the most-polarizing record of The Doors’ career thanks to the brass and string arrangements that embellish several tracks.

To commemorate the album’s 50th year anniversary, Rhino reimagines The Soft Parade on a newly expanded 3CD/1LP set that will be available on October 18. THE SOFT PARADE: 50TH ANNIVERSARY DELUXE EDITION includes the original studio album – and the B-side “Who Scared You” – newly remastered by Bruce Botnick, The Doors’ longtime engineer and mixer. The collection is a limited edition of 15,000 individually numbered copies and also includes the original album on 180-gram vinyl along with liner notes by noted rock journalist David Fricke.

The core of the new collection is comprised of more than a dozen unreleased songs. Among the highlights are stripped down “Doors Only” versions of five tracks where the horns and strings have been removed (“Tell All The People,” “Touch Me,” “Wishful Sinful,” “Runnin’ Blue,” and “Who Scared You.”) The set also features three of those stripped-back versions with new guitar parts added by Robby Krieger (“Touch Me,” “Wishful Sinful,” and “Runnin’ Blue).

The collection also uncovers three songs from studio rehearsals – with Ray Manzarek (a.k.a. Screamin’ Ray Daniels) on vocals – that include an early version of “Roadhouse Blues,” a song that would be released the following year on Morrison Hotel. These three songs include newly recorded bass parts by Robert DeLeo of Stone Temple Pilots, who joined Krieger and John Densmore at a tribute concert for Manzarek in 2016, three years after the organist died of cancer.

A trio of studio outtakes collected on the set’s final disc feature the much-bootlegged, hour-long jam, “Rock Is Dead,” which appears here in its entire, surviving form for the first time ever. The track finds The Doors riffing through the entire history of rock ’n’ roll, from early delta blues through surf music, ending with the death of rock.

Tracklist
[CD1]
1. Tell All The People
2. Touch Me
3. Shaman’s Blues
4. Do It
5. Easy Ride
6. Wild Child
7. Runnin’ Blue
8. Wishful Sinful
9. The Soft Parade
Bonus Track:
10. Who Scared You – B-side

[CD2]
1. Tell All The People (Doors only mix) *
2. Touch Me (Doors only mix w/new Robby Krieger guitar overdub) *
3. Runnin’ Blue (Doors only mix w/new Robby Krieger guitar overdub) *
4. Wishful Sinful (Doors only mix w/new Robby Krieger guitar overdub) *
5. Who Scared You (Doors only mix) *
6. Roadhouse Blues – Screamin’ Ray Daniels (a.k.a. Ray Manzarek) on vocal *
7. (You Need Meat) Don’t Go No Further – Screamin’ Ray Daniels (a.k.a. Ray Manzarek) on vocal *
8. I’m Your Doctor – Screamin’ Ray Daniels (a.k.a. Ray Manzarek) on vocal *
9. Touch Me (Doors only mix) *
10. Runnin’ Blue (Doors only mix) *
11. Wishful Sinful (Doors only mix) *

[CD3]
1. I Am Troubled
2. Seminary School (aka Petition The Lord With Prayer) *
3. Rock Is Dead – Complete Version *
4. Chaos *

* previously unreleased

[LP]
1. Tell All The People
2. Touch Me
3. Shaman’s Blues
4. Do It
5. Easy Ride
6. Wild Child
7. Runnin’ Blue
8. Wishful Sinful
9. The Soft Parade

3CD/1LP Deluxe Edition (shown above)
US - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TNVWQKD/?tag=imwan-20
CA - https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07TNVWQKD/?tag=imwanca-20
UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07TNVWQKD/?tag=imwan-21

1CD Standard Edition (original 9 tracks only)
US - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TKNG3QK/?tag=imwan-20
CA - https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B07TKNG3QK/?tag=imwanca-20
UK - https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07TKNG3QK/?tag=imwan-21

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Sep 06, 2018 2:49 pm

Excerpted from a Billboard interview with Robby Krieger about 2018's Waiting For The Sun 50th anniversary release:

Quote:

Krieger says discussions have not begun yet for a 50th anniversary reissue of 1969's The Soft Parade, though he's certain there will be one.

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Jul 17, 2019 8:14 pm

Bump: Pre-order details for The Soft Parade 50th anniversary set are now in the first post.

Larry · **Joined:** 10 Feb 2008 **Posts:** 5103

Beatles, Kinks, Doors, Steve Miller. It's Christmas season!

Renny · 26 Jun 2006

Larry wrote:

Beatles, Kinks, Doors, Steve Miller. It's Christmas season!

just around the corner, and surely there will be more.......

Larry · **Joined:** 10 Feb 2008 **Posts:** 5103

No doubt. There might a Dylan bootleg series. And the creme de la Creme- a 50th anniversary edition of "Let It Bleed", this year with a phone interview with Keith.

Renny · 26 Jun 2006

Larry wrote:

No doubt. There might a Dylan bootleg series. And the creme de la Creme- a 50th anniversary edition of "Let It Bleed", this year with a phone interview with Keith.

this would be wonderful.

more dylan bootlegs, he just might have taped more than hendrix.

Glenn S. · 30 Oct 2006

Larry wrote:

No doubt.

Yep, probably them too. :wink:

Linda · **Posted:** Sat Aug 10, 2019 12:39 pm

A sample:

Linda · **Posted:** Mon Aug 26, 2019 6:49 pm

The release date has been pushed back to November 1st. However, the USA pre-order price for the 3CD/1LP set has been reduced by nearly $9, down to $51.29:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TNVWQKD/?tag=imwan-20

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Sep 13, 2019 3:49 pm

Linda wrote:

The release date has been pushed back to November 1st. However, the USA pre-order price for the 3CD/1LP set has been reduced by nearly $9, down to $51.29:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TNVWQKD/?tag=imwan-20

Now further reduced to $46.14.

Linda · **Posted:** Sat Oct 19, 2019 1:14 am

Another sample:

Rokin Robin of Locksley · 20 Oct 2007

Stronger than dirt !!

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Oct 24, 2019 11:39 pm

And WAN more:

[2019-11-01] The Doors "The Soft Parade (50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)" limited numbered 3CD/1LP set (Elektra/Rhino)

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