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The Doors released the song Alabama Song (Whisky Bar). Date of release: 1967.

Release date: 1967
Duration: 03:17
The story of the song ' Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) '

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The meaning of the song 'Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) ', based on the lyrics
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🎶 Alabama Song (Whisky Bar) song analysis
The protagonist asks for directions to the next whiskey bar and a little girl. He says not to ask why, and that if they don't find what they are looking for, they must die. The chorus repeats that they have lost their "good old mom" and need whiskey for that.

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The Doors - Short Biography

The Doors were an influential and controversial American rock band formed in 1965 in Los Angeles. Led by singer Jim Morrison and featuring keyboardist Ray Manzarek, guitarist Robby Krieger and drummer John Densmore, the band played a major role in the counterculture of the 1960s.
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The "Alabama Song," also known as "Moon of Alabama," "Moon Over Alabama," and "Whisky Bar," is a popular tune written by Bertolt Brecht and translated from German by his close collaborator Elisabeth Hauptmann in 1925. It was set to music by Kurt Weill for the play Little Mahagonny in 1927 and was reused for the opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny in 1930. Over the years, the song has been recorded by several well-known artists, including The Doors and David Bowie.

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