Today’s trio of tunes honors the late, great Ray Manzarek, keyboard player and co-founder of The Doors. Nick Clayburn, who works downtown at PNC Bank, sent us this list featuring songs Manzarek had a hand in writing and that feature his playing.

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This guy was grunge before it was a musical genre; back when he sang with Crosby, Stills, Nash and himself. He was probably born wearing a flannel shirt and jeans with holes in them. This song is from his solo resume and there’s trouble on the streets, red, white and blue, but this sure ain’t a song about Captain America. Listen below for the answer.

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Set List:

1. Riff Raff
2. Problem Child
3. Hell Ain’t a Bad Place to Be
4. Rock ‘n’ Roll Damnation
5. Dog Eat Dog
6. Bad Boy Boogie
7. Down Payment Blues
8. The Jack
9. High Voltage
10. Whole Lotta Rosie
11. Let There Be Rock
12. Rocker

Line Up:

• Angus Young – Lead Guitar
• Malcolm Young – Rythm Guitar
• Bon Scott – Lead Vocals
• Cliff Williams – Bass
• Phil Rudd – Drums

Here is AC/DC performing “Whole Lotta Rosie” back in 1978 on a TV show called “Rock Goes To College”.

Only 5 days away from their show at The Richfield Coliseum in 1988.

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1) Can’t Get Enough

2) Deal With the Preacher

Just six years ago, to celebrate the Doors’ 40th anniversary, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum presented Break on Through: The Lasting Legacy of the Doors. The exhibit chronicled the career of the Doors through artifacts provided by Ray Manzarek, John Densmore, Robby Krieger, the estate of Jim Morrison, the Doors Music Co. and several collectors. Items included instruments, rare manuscripts, production notes, audio, video and photography.

Howard Kramer, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame & Museum’s Curatorial Director, spoke with me about the sudden passing of Ray and putting together the exhibit.

When asked about his initial thoughts about Ray’s passing, Kramer took a deep breath and said, “I was deeply saddened. I worked with Ray on the Doors exhibit and I spent a lot of time with him and his wife Dorothy. I went to their home, and I feel like I got to know him and his brother Rick.” He continued, “I had no idea he was sick and it really caught me by surprise.”

Certainly considered more than a friend, Howard dug deeper into his relationship with Manzarek and the influence of the Doors.

“Ray was a really talented and insightful guy. I think the Doors are often lumped together with a lot of other groups from ‘67, or became popular in ’67, like the (Grateful) Dead or the (Jefferson) Airplane and that sort of thing. But they were very different. They were rooted in blues and rhythm and blues a lot more than those other bands, their contemporaries, particularly the San Francisco bands. They were truly an product of Los Angeles, not a product of San Francisco. And that’s one of the reasons I think they stuck out.

“Their music had a different type of root than the people who are considered their contemporaries.”

The Doors were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1993, when, for the first time, the ceremony was held in Los Angeles – the Door’s hometown. Twenty-years later, Kramer recounted the ceremony, even though he has only seen video.

“I was a pretty interesting thing. It was one of the last times that the 3 surviving guys played together. Having Eddie Vedder there, who in many people’s estimation, certainly filled the mantle that Morrison had in terms of being a charismatic front man.”

Of course, the Doors and Ray Manzarek have a home in the Hall on the shores of Lake Erie. Visitors can still see Manzarek’s VOX keyboard and a drum head cover from Rick & The Ravens, the band Manzarek played in prior to the Doors. A photograph and biography will be added in the “In Memoriam” section on the museum’s 4th floor.

- Carl Harp / 98.5 WNCX

All day, we have celebrate Ray’s life and legacy through the music of the Doors. So, with today’s 4-play, we’re continuing the tribute with four songs from the Doors.

PHOTOS: REMEMBERING RAY MANZAREK OF THE DOORS

1) Touch Me

2) 20th Century Fox

3) When the Music’s Over

4) Love Her Madly

Although the Doors effectively ended in 1971 after the death of Jim Morrison, Manzarek spent a good amount of his life maintaining the band’s legacy. Other than his tours with Doors guitarist Robby Krieger, he also worked on keeping the band’s recorded work in the marketplace through a series of reissues, best-ofs and box sets.  The most recent release was the live concert film, Live At The Bowl ’68, which shows the band at the peak of their powers.

Manzarek was beaming through the phone as he told Radio.com about the show in a late 2012 interview. He said that some of his, and the band’s, favorite artists had played that stage, so it meant a lot for  to be booked at the Hollywood Bowl. “It was momentous. That was the granddaddy of all venues in Southern California. Igor Stravinsky conducted there! The Beatles played there! And we were playing at the same place. But up to that point, very few rock bands played there. We were very honored.”

With their second No. 1 single under their belt (“Hello, I Love You”; the first was “Light My Fire”) the band was on top of the world, having realized all their dreams of becoming rock stars in just a few short years.

“The best laid plans of mice and men had not gone astray yet,” Manzarek mused. “We dreamed of putting a rock and roll band together on Venice Beach in the summer of 1965. This is now the summer of 1968 and we had attained the goal. We wanted to be as big as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, and we had arrived at that place.”

Indeed, at that time, The Doors — Manzarek, Krieger, drummer John Densmore and  Jim Morrison — had a powerful grip on their audience; Manzarek himself exclaimed that, in that moment in 1968, “Those four guys were the four horsemen of the apocalypse!” After the Hollywood Bowl gig, the Doors became even more popular and eventually headlined Madison Square Garden. Had Morrison lived a longer life, would they, like the Stones and Paul McCartney, have upgraded to football stadiums? “I’m not sure if you are still a rock and roll band or if you turn into a circus at that point,” Manzarek said.

However, Manzarek noted that if the Doors had been popular enough, they most likely would have tried to play the largest venues possible: “It would have been a theatrical challenge to do something like that. The Rolling Stones do it on a grand scale. So what would The Doors have done on a grand scale? All things would have been possible, unfortunately Jim didn’t make it.”

Referencing the massive popularity the band still enjoys decades after Morrison’s passing, he said, “The Doors were an underground band, out of the mainstream. That’s where Jim and I always wanted to be.”

Read more at Radio.com. 

– Brian Ives, Radio.com 

Sounds like this was the way, Manzarek wished to make the transition too. Simply and quietly surrounded by family there in Germany.

Since this was the city from which they hailed from. HERE is what the Los Angeles Times wrote about Ray Manzarek.

Original story:
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Today’s Pick 3 comes from the gang at Ulick’s Electric. They’re working at the Lodi Station Outlet Mall today and want to hear two songs about what they do and one for what they’ll be doing at 5 pm today when the work is done.

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