{"id":30374,"date":"2024-09-17T18:03:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-17T18:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-17-1967-the-doors-appearance-on-the-ed-sullivan-show-ends-in-controversy\/"},"modified":"2024-09-17T18:03:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-17T18:03:07","slug":"on-this-day-sept-17-1967-the-doors-appearance-on-the-ed-sullivan-show-ends-in-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-17-1967-the-doors-appearance-on-the-ed-sullivan-show-ends-in-controversy\/","title":{"rendered":"On This Day, Sept. 17, 1967: The Doors&#8217; appearance on &#8216;The Ed Sullivan Show&#8217; ends in controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-09-17\/ABCAudio_ThisDayInHistory_v03_ag.jpg\" alt><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">On This Day, Sept. 17, 1967\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><strong>The Doors<\/strong>\u00a0appeared on <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Ed Sullivan Show<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">, performing their #1 single \u201cLight My Fire.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">But the performance wasn\u2019t without controversy. Prior to the show, the band had been asked to change the line of &#8220;girl, we couldn&#8217;t get much higher\u201d to take out the reference to drugs. While they originally agreed to do it, and sang the altered version during rehearsals,\u00a0 frontman\u00a0<strong>Jim Morrison\u00a0<\/strong>wound up\u00a0disregarding the request and sang\u00a0the original lyrics live on the air.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Morrison\u2019s defiance resulted in The Doors getting banned from <\/span><em><span class=\"s1\">The Ed Sullivan Show,\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span class=\"s1\">with <strong>Ray Manzarek<\/strong>\u00a0later saying they were told that Sullivan had initially planned to have them back six more times.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On This Day, Sept. 17, 1967\u2026 The Doors\u00a0appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing their #1 single \u201cLight My Fire.\u201d But the performance wasn\u2019t without controversy. Prior to the show, the band had been asked to change the line of &#8220;girl, we couldn&#8217;t get much higher\u201d to take out the<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/on-this-day-sept-17-1967-the-doors-appearance-on-the-ed-sullivan-show-ends-in-controversy\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30374"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}