To American Prayer

To American Prayer
Studio album by The Doors
Publication (s)	November 1978
admission	March 1969 / December 1970 (voice) and 1978 (music)
Label (s)	Elektra Records
Format (s)	LP
Genre (s)	Blues rock , psychedelic rock
Title (number)	13
running time	38:28
occupation	Jim Morrison : vocals Ray Manzarek : Keyboards Robbie Krieger : guitar John Densmore : drums
production	John Densmore, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, Frank Lisciandro, John Haeny
chronology Full Circle (1972) To American Prayer -

An American Prayer is a music album by the American rock band The Doors . It was created in 1978, five years after the band broke up, when the former band members who were still alive got together to record the album. Recordings of the singer Jim Morrison , who died in 1971 and who recited from his volume of poetry, also entitled An American Prayer , were placed over the music . Morrison self- published this in 1970 (500 copies).

Guest musicians include Reinol Andino (percussion), Bob Glaub and Jerry Scheff (both bass). The three Doors musicians John Haeny and Frank Lisciandro also appeared as producers .

In its year of release, the album reached number 54 on the US pop album charts .

Included titles

Original pressing

1. Awake - 0:36
2. Ghost Song - 2:50
3. Dawn's Highway / Newborn Awakening - 3:48
4. To Come of Age - 1:02
5. Black Polished Chrome / Latino Chrome - 3:22
6. Angels and Sailors / Stoned Immaculate - 4:20
7. The Movie - 1:36
8. Curses, Invocations - 1:58
9. American Night - 0:29
10. Roadhouse Blues - 6:59
11. Lament - 2:19
12. The Hitchhiker - 2:16
13. To American Prayer - 6:53
    • the end
    • Albinoni: Adagio

New edition 1995

1. Awake - 0:35
2. Ghost Song - 2:50
3. Dawn's Highway - 1:21
4. Newborn Awakening - 2:26
5. To Come of Age - 1:01
6. Black Polished Chrome - 1:07
7. Latino Chrome - 2:14
8. Angels and Sailors - 2:46
9. Stoned Immaculate - 1:33
10. The Movie - 1:35
11. Curses, Invocations - 1:57
12. American Night - 0:28
13. Roadhouse Blues - 5:53
14. The World on Fire - 1:06
15. Lament - 2:18
16. The Hitchhiker - 2:15
17. To American Prayer - 3:04
18. Hour for Magic - 1:17
19. Freedom Exists - 0:20
20. A Feast of Friends - 2:10
21. Babylon fading - 1:40
22. Bird of Prey - 1:03
23. The Ghost Song [long version] - 5:15

literature

• Jim Morrison: To American Prayer. Zeppelin Publishing, Baton Rouge [?] 1983. ISBN 0-915628-46-5 - English-language volume of poems from which the texts of the album are taken
• Jim Morrison: An American Prayer and Other Poems. Kramer Verlag, Berlin 1978. ISBN 3-87956-098-6 - Translation into German by Reinhard Fischer and Werner Reimann

Web links

• Texts ( Memento of December 4, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) and booklet ( Memento of October 9, 2002 in the Internet Archive ) on the official The Doors website