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"Hello, I Love You" is a song recorded by American rock band the Doors for their 1968 album Waiting for the Sun. Elektra Records released it as a single that same year, which topped the charts in the U.S. and Canada. Although the Doors are credited as the songwriters, songs by other artists have been identified as likely sources.
The Doors started recording Waiting for the Sun in late 1967 at Sunset Sound Studios, [a] with early versions of "The Unknown Soldier" and "Spanish Caravan". The group soon moved at TTG Studios in Hollywood, California, where the majority of the album's recording took place; the same time Frank Zappa was recording. [7]
Billboard described the single as having "all the drive and rhythm of their No. 1 winner 'Hello, I Love You'," stating that "the Doors have a smash follow -up here." [7] Cash Box described it as "a marvelous track" in which the Doors "add a helping of beat to their hard-hitting style." [8]
The Doors' third studio album Waiting for the Sun (1968), was commercially very successful, reaching No. 1 in the US and France, and produced their second No. 1 single, "Hello, I Love You". Waiting for the Sun was the first Doors album to chart in the United Kingdom, where it peaked inside the Top 20.
By mid-1968, the Doors had established themselves as one of the most popular groups in the US. The band's third studio album, Waiting for the Sun, released in July of the same year, became the Doors' only number one hit on the Billboard 200 while also spawning "Hello, I Love You", their second number one single.
Hello I Love You may refer to: "Hello, I Love You", a 1968 song by the Doors "Hello (I Love You)", a 2007 song by Roger Waters
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On September 13, 1968 the band played their No. 1 hit "Hello, I Love You" on German TV show Musik Für Junge Leute: 4-3-2-1 Hot & Sweet. On CBS's The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour Morrison sings "Touch Me" live over a backing track. The band also mime to "Wild Child". Recorded December 15, 1968.