I Can See You - by Paddy Summerfield c. 1986

Monday, March 02, 2026

‘GLORIA’ - Van Morrison and Them (1965), The Doors (2014 - 2007 remixes remastered) Patti Smith (various and album)

 GLORIA - THEM

Them - Gloria  (Live in Paris, France 1965)


somebody at Top Hat said once you had heard Patti Smith’s version there is NO other!
I replied once you had heard The Doors Version there were many another and just to spread that I really like all of these! 😏

The official music video for The Doors - "Gloria" from 'R-Evolution' (2014) 



Patti Smith - Gloria

"Patricia Lee Smith was born in Chicago. Her mother, Beverly, was a waitress, and her father, Grant, worked at the Honeywell plant. The family was of Irish heritage.[citation needed] She spent her early childhood in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia,before her family moved to Woodbury, New Jersey. Her mother was a Jehovah's Witness. Patti had a strong religious upbringing and a Bible education, but left organized religion as a teenager because she felt it was too confining; much later, she wrote the line "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine" in her cover version of Them's "Gloria" in response to this experience."


The Doors - Gloria (Full uncensored)

Guess which I prefer?
Well actually it depends on my mood . . . . 

Gloria - Patti Smith ‘Horses’ 1975 Arista Records album, produced by John Cale, synced to video of 1976 performance in Belgium

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