Unhappy Girl

Album: Strange Days (1967)
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Songfacts®:

  • Ray Manzarek played the piano backwards while listening to this in reverse. That track was then played forward and overdubbed in.
  • This continues the story of the estranged lover from their songs "You're Lost Little Girl" and "Love Me Two Times."

Comments: 4

  • Only1out10livestr8 from In Your Uterus..., United StatesListen Tony Bennett's "Solitaire" and "My Funny Valentine" by Frank Sinatra...mix it up and you got this song.
  • Douglas from Melbourne, FlThis is Pamela Coursons attitude toward Jim, being Jim. She couldnt handle the stardom, that I believe he was getting into.
  • Stefanie from Rock Hill, ScHow are those three songs, mentioned in the songfacts connected. I've never heard this one, but i've heard the other two before.
  • Tim from Philadelphia, PaEveryone knows a girl like this that is miserable and won't let anyone in.
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