- Wishful Sinful
Infobox Single
Name = Wishful Sinful
Artist =The Doors
from Album =The Soft Parade
B-side = Who Scared You
Released = March 1969
Format = 7" single
Recorded = Autumn 1968- Early 1969
Genre = Rock
Length = 3:11
Label = Elektra
Writer =Robby Krieger
Producer =Paul Rothchild
Certification =
Last single = "Touch Me"
(1968)
This single = "Wishful Sinful"
(1969)
Next single = "Tell All The People "
(1969)"Wishful Sinful" is a song written by Doors guitarist
Robbie Krieger and performed byThe Doors . Released in March 1969 from the band's fourth album, "The Soft Parade ", "Wishful Sinful" follows the general theme of the album by incorporating elements ofclassical music . It reached #44 on theBillboard Hot 100 in 1969. ["Allmusic ", [http://wm08.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&searchlink=THE|DOORS&sql=11:wifqxqe5ldhe~T51 The Doors Chart History] ]Though many of the songs on
The Soft Parade (including Wishful Sinful) were somewhat unpopularFact|date=March 2008 - at least amongst fans of the harder, bluesier Doors sound - at the time of the original release, many music fans today find the album to be a skillful expansion of the Doors' musical abilities.Fact|date=March 2008The song was covered by pianist
George Winston on his albumNight Divides the Day - The Music of the Doors .B-Side
The B-side of the single - "Who Scared You?" - is one of only three non-album B-sides that the Doors released during their career. The other two are "Don't Go No Farther"(sic) and "Tree Trunk".
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