THE DOORS "WILD CHILD" The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, Dec 6 1968

THE DOORS - WILD CHILD

The Smothers Brothers Show

broadcast Dec 15th 1968

I didn’t think I had seen this one but had certainly seen the black eye before so maybe

THE DOORS perform "WILD CHILD" on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, filmed Dec. 6, 1968, & broadcast Dec. 15.

The instrumental backup was a playback mix from the B-side of their new single, but Jim Morrison's vocals were performed live at the show.

For this number (they also performed the A-side of the single, "Touch Me", with big brass & string sections onstage), the producers placed the other band members in the shadows, possibly to hide Robby Krieger's black eye, which came from a bad car accident some days prior. They offered him to cover it with makeup, but he said to leave it as it was. Krieger liked to mythologize the black eye, claiming it came from a fistfight with Morrison, but no