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Ironically, the title track wouldn’t appear on a Doors album until Morrison Hotel, and Jim Morrison’s epic mini-rock opera “Celebration of the Lizard,” was scratched because producer Paul Rothchild felt its lack of commercial appeal would hurt sales. One of “Lizard’s” songs, “Not to Touch the Earth,” was salvaged for the album.

(Morrison was geven his chance to talk about “Celebration” in an October 13, 1970 interview in Circus Magazine with Salli Stevenson, when the piece was finally included in “Absolutely Live”. )

The opener, “Hello, I Love You” was written about Morrison’s fascination with a black woman he saw at the beach: “Do you hope to make her see you move? Do you hope to pluck this dusky jewel?” With Morrison in full drool mode, Robbie Krieger making his guitar solo sound like a boomerang and with Ray Manzarek patting lightly at his keys as if he was a man dancing in the hot sand, “Hello, I Love You” produces pleasant memories of summer in an economic 2:40.

Krieger, Manzarek and John Densmore combine to make “Love Street” sound like a scenic stroll in the sunshine, while Morrison’s lyrics show he preferred to walk on the wild side: “She has robes and she has monkeys, lazy diamond studded flunkies. She has wisdom and knows what to do. She has me and she has you.”

Seasonal Imagery

Two pairs of songs on Waiting For the Sun function as mirror images of one another. The soft, cozy “Summer’s Almost Gone” laments the end of the best time. Krieger’s low, moaning solo stands out, alongside Manzarek’s placid keyboard work.

Winter has seldom sounded as inviting as it does in “Wintertime Love,” a ballad resembling a Russian peasant dance. Whenever Morrison chose to drop his poet/anarchist façade he could be a soulful charmer, as “Wintertime Love’ and “Yes, The River Knows” prove.

The two other songs that bookend one another, “Spanish Caravan” and “My Wild Love” exposed Doors fans to more exotic textures.