

The Doors – Sounds for Your Soul – Die Musik Der Doors (in German). ^ Puterbaugh, Parke (December 8, 1983).: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) ( link)

^ Love Me Two Times / Moonlight Drive (single label).Paul Beaver – moog synthesizer sound effects.Ray Manzarek – hohner clavinet, tack piano.Morrison also read the Strange Days poem "Horse Latitudes" during live performances of the song, before repeating the final lines of the song's third verse, as demonstrated on the version that first appeared on Alive, She Cried. Morrison sings in live performances, probably improvising, referring to "fishes for your friends" and "pearls for your eyes" conjuring an image of a rotten corpse lying at the bottom of the ocean while simultaneously referring to Shakespeare. Recordings of live performances of the song reveal a link to a sort of death by drowning – whether murder, suicide or simply going too far. This version was finally released as an outtake, on the 40th Anniversary edition of the debut album.

It was recorded the following year for the band's eponymous debut album, but eventually did not appear this was due to the band members' dissatisfaction with the result, which differ from the later album version. "Moonlight Drive" was recorded along with other songs during the group's first demo recordings at Trans World Pacific Studios. Morrison already had a band name picked out: the Doors. Later on, when he happened upon his friend and future band member, Ray Manzarek, he uttered the memorable lines, "Let's swim to the moon, let's climb through the tide, penetrate the evening that the city sleeps to hide." Reportedly Manzarek was awestruck, and they decided to form a band. According to the Jerry Hopkins and Danny Sugerman biography No One Here Gets Out Alive, Morrison wrote "Moonlight Ride" during his halcyon days on a rooftop in Venice Beach, Los Angeles, California, in 1965. The song is one of the first written by the lead singer Jim Morrison. Venice Beach, Los Angeles, where Ray Manzarek and Jim Morrison met
