Green Door Artist Jim Lowe Album Rock "N" Roll, Vol. 1 (1956)
What's behind door number 3 ? ...Remember the good ole 45 singles ?
Such a happy tune, has rather dark implications when you take into account the lizard lounge of perverse thought,
describes the allure of a mysterious private club with a green door, behind which "a happy crowd" play piano,
smoke and "laugh a lot", and inside which the singer is not allowed. After the Great Chicago Fire, a local tavern
opened in Chicago, the Green Door Tavern. During prohibition, this was a popular place to get secret libations.
As the door of the tavern was green, the colour became a symbol of a speakeasy. During the Prohibition Era many
restaurants would paint their doors green to indicate the presence of a speakeasy. Behind the Green Door (1940)
is a Penny Parker mystery novel by Mildred Wirt Benson. In the novel, the secret door hides some illegal
activity at a ski-resort hotel; no music or vice is involved in this book aimed at adolescent girls.
Music composed in 1956 by Bob "Hutch" Davie and lyrics written by Marvin J. Moore, first recorded by Jim Lowe
Welsh singer Shakin' Stevens also covered the song in 1981 for his album Shaky. A flat version of The Green Door
by Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) was recently used in Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’
The B Side :
"(The Story of) the Little Man in Chinatown" Jim Lowe (1956)
A more frantic China rhythm by the same fellow who popularized the slinky Green Door... Jim Lowe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Door
dr. π (pi)
♫
enjoy!
❤️
Such a happy tune, has rather dark implications when you take into account the lizard lounge of perverse thought,
describes the allure of a mysterious private club with a green door, behind which "a happy crowd" play piano,
smoke and "laugh a lot", and inside which the singer is not allowed. After the Great Chicago Fire, a local tavern
opened in Chicago, the Green Door Tavern. During prohibition, this was a popular place to get secret libations.
As the door of the tavern was green, the colour became a symbol of a speakeasy. During the Prohibition Era many
restaurants would paint their doors green to indicate the presence of a speakeasy. Behind the Green Door (1940)
is a Penny Parker mystery novel by Mildred Wirt Benson. In the novel, the secret door hides some illegal
activity at a ski-resort hotel; no music or vice is involved in this book aimed at adolescent girls.
Click to viewMusic composed in 1956 by Bob "Hutch" Davie and lyrics written by Marvin J. Moore, first recorded by Jim Lowe
Welsh singer Shakin' Stevens also covered the song in 1981 for his album Shaky. A flat version of The Green Door
by Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) was recently used in Quentin Tarantino’s ‘Once Upon a Time in Hollywood’
The B Side :
"(The Story of) the Little Man in Chinatown" Jim Lowe (1956)
A more frantic China rhythm by the same fellow who popularized the slinky Green Door... Jim Lowe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Door
dr. π (pi)
♫
enjoy!
❤️