REBELS

On this day in music history: September 17, 1967 - The Doors make their first and only appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show performing their recent number one hit “Light My Fire”. Executives from CBS’ Standards & Practices (i.e. network censors) asks the band to change the line “girl we couldn’t get much higher” to “girl we couldn’t get much better”, feeling the original line might be offensive to some parts of the viewing audience. Lead singer Jim Morrison agrees to sing the altered line, but when the band performs the song on the live broadcast, Morrison sings the line as it was originally written, even emphasizing it the second time he sings it. This infuriates Sullivan and the network who had planned to have The Doors make another six appearances on the show, which are immediately cancelled. When a show producer tells them they’ll never appear on the show again, Jim Morrison reportedly tells him, “Hey man. We just did the Sullivan Show.”

thanks to the most excellent Jeff Harris' blog 'Behind The Grooves  On this day in Music History