Love Her Madly
"Love Her Madly" is a song by American rock band the Doors. It was released in March 1971 and was the first single from "L.A. Woman", their final album with singer Jim Morrison. "Love Her Madly" became one of the highest-charting hits for the Doors; it peaked at number eleven on the "Billboard" Hot 100 singles chart and reached number three in Canada. Session musician Jerry Scheff played bass guitar on the song. "Cash Box" described the song as being "a precision combination of FM and top forty potentials." In 2000, Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek and  drummer John Densmore recorded a new version of "Love Her Madly" with Bo Diddley for the Doors tribute album "Stoned Immaculate". Background. Band guitarist Robby Krieger composed the music of "Love Her Madly" while experimenting on a twelve string guitar, and he was inspired to write the lyrics from his troubles and fights with his then-girlfriend and later-wife Lynn. The song's title was taken by Duke Ellington's line "We love you madly," a phrase that he uttered to the audience at the end of his concerts. According to longtime Doors producer Paul A. Rothchild, "Love Her  Madly" was the song that instigated his departure from the original "L.A. Woman" sessions, with Rothchild dismissing the song as "cocktail music." Conversely, Krieger has claimed that "Riders on the Storm" was the song to which Rothchild was referring. Following Rothchild's departure from the project, the Doors opted to self-produce the album, in association with longtime engineer Bruce Botnick. The B-side of the single, "You Need Meat (Don't Go No Further)," is the only studio recording released by the Doors during Jim Morrison's tenure with the group to feature a lead vocal by keyboardist Ray  Manzarek. It is also one of only three non-album B-sides by the Doors, the other two being "Who Scared You?" (B-side of "Wishful Sinful") and the relatively rare post-Morrison track "Treetrunk" (B-side of "Get Up and Dance"). "(You Need Meat) Don't Go No Further" met its first official album release on the "Weird Scenes Inside the Gold Mine" compilation, and was subsequently included in the 2006 "Perception" box and as a bonus track on the 2007 reissue of "L.A. Woman". Personnel. The Doors Additional musicians References. Footnotes Citations Sources