It really is. I’m gonna be honest here, I am not a Fallon fan at all. I completely disagree with him in many ways politically but this is f***ing incredible lol! The guy is talented. Can’t deny it
Glad some people explained this, as I'd briefly wondered if Jimmy borrowed Weird Al's band (lol even looked to see if Bermuda Schwartz was there.) Al's band is extremely under-rated! It's hard to think of styles they haven't done, really
Regardless of what you may think about Jimmy, the attention to detail here is stunning. Any big time Morrison fan has to smile watching this. He just gets it all right.
Agreed he just nailed every single f****** detail from the way that he stands to the way that he dresses to the way that he holds a microphone it's just phenomenal
Exactly! We just watched it and we used to watch Fallon regularly and then had kids and lost touch. So sad we missed this but am so stoked by it. I can’t get enough of it. I’ve listened to it dozens of times now. So stinkin’ good as everyone else has said. Well done.
Me too. I thought it was a great doc, quite touching actually. And to top to off it gave me the gift of finding this great Fallon clip which i’d never seen before
He is amazingly on point with his impression. Jim Morrison had a one-of-a-kind voice, but Fallon really captured it. Best impression I've ever seen. The Elvis impersonators have nothing on Jimmy Fallon.
@@mikeblaz no, he notoriously hated the fact that Pamela was a smack head. That was one of many bumps In their road. He may have tried it once or twice, but the man wasn't slamming heroin daily you mook. He was into psychedelics, then later on his DOC was booze. You must be one of those guys that watched the movie and thought it was good, that movie destroyed his image lmao
@@FlyinggMushroom Psychedelics/acid/shrooms are better? Probably coke as well.The guy was a druggie and boozer. I like the doors but he was well known to be a asshole...
@@FlyinggMushroom I'm a pretty big fan of The Doors. Have been since I was like 12. Now, I haven't watched the movie in a long time so I maybe remembering it wrong but from what I remember of it, it depicted Jim pretty close to how 'No One Here Gets Out Alive' depicted him. I may have no go back and watch the movie again though and see if I'm remembering it wrong.
And the way he looked right at the camera when he sang it was a direct callback to when Jim sang "Girl we couldn't get much higher" against the direct demand of Ed Sullivan.
I JUST realized at 2:18 when he sings "I can go twice as HIGH", he purposefully looks at the camera and sings HIGH, which is exactly what made him get banned from the Ed Sullivan Show in 1967.
Shows how anal the Sullivan people were being about that line. Here is a kids show theme singing about going "twice as high" & no one thought anything of it
This is one of the best things Fallon has ever done. So very accurate to The Doors. The scream at 0:55 sounds just like Jim Morrison. Love how he incorporates children's books into the psychedelic poetry bridge. Excellent.
I just realized that he not only nailed the mannerisms, the music, the screams, and the lyrical cadence from several Doors songs but... the idea of the Doors came from a book, Doors of Perception. Which was about expanding your mind and perceiving more... which is exactly what the Reading Rainbow song is about. So even the themes are spot on. This is an awesome, awesome parody.
I wish we would see many more musical "covers" by Fallon. No one does this type of music / comedy / cover better. It's actually rather unique because the "cover" is so good you almost forget it's a comedy bit.
The set design is a homage to The Doors' 1967 performance of "Light My Fire" on "The Ed Sullivan Show." The keyboardist seems to be playing a Vox Continental Organ - which is exactly what Ray Manzarek played on Sullivan's show in 1967. (The drum kit and guitar also seem consistent, though I haven't bothered tracking them down.) Fallon's arrangements - and use of weird, out-of-context kids' book quotations ("The Indian in the Cupboard," "There's a Monster at the End of this Book," etc.) are also totally (and hilariously) consistent with Morrison's poetic flights of symbolist/Brechtian fancy. The point being? Fallon has a spark of musical genius all his own. Gutowski's compliment is deserved.
Wow what a great breakdown I am big doors fan I'm 54 read all the books seen the movie, researched it all. Yes Jimmy Fallon also has a liking for the doors what a talented person. I love how he tries to portray Jim Morrison's persona dark and desolated.
He's actually playing a Gibson G101, which is what Ray played on the Sullivan show. Ray switched from the Vox Continental to the Gibson around mid-1967 b/c the plastic key caps on his Continentals kept breaking.
@@sheLLcharm Nope, sorry. He's not lip-synching. He can sing really well. Look up the songs he's recorded, you can find several here on YT. He's performed on his show with Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young, doing impressions of both. He's very talented.
Oh wow I wasn't expecting this to be so accurate! He really sounds like Jim and has his movements down as well. Even the band members kind of look like Robbie, Ray, and John.
I have been a Doors fan since i was eleven yrs old. I am now forty two years old, And Jim Morrison is my musical idol, and i must say here, Jimmy Fallon could easily have portrayed Jim in the doors movie. His voice sounds just like Jim's here. Jim would have loved this portrayal of himself. Even as good as Val Kilmer was portraying Jim in the movie Fallon's voice sounds more like Jim's 100 percent absolutely immense by Jimmy Fallon you can tell he is a huge doors fan too amazing performance 👏👏👏👌✌
The blending of pure and sweet Reading Rainbow with the sultry, arguably kind of demonic end of rock and roll is unassailablely genius on the part of the Fallon team. Imagination.....well done !
I can't be the only one that's watched this several times in a row. How awesome is Jimmy Fallon!!! I wonder if the Doors saw this what they'd think about it. Absolutely nothing short of awesome
This isn't even a joke its genuinely too good
For sure i would pay to see him do an entire doors set or even a reading rainbow version 😁
Everybody's talking about my tight pants.
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@@joshbirrittier9924he should release a Doors cover album!
It really is. I’m gonna be honest here, I am not a Fallon fan at all. I completely disagree with him in many ways politically but this is f***ing incredible lol! The guy is talented. Can’t deny it
The band as a whole deserves credit for how spot-on everything sounds
the roots, yes. the "band" on stage isn't playing the song. freakin' brilliant jimmer's.
The on-stage drummer looks convincing
There actually a "The Doors" cover band.
Glad some people explained this, as I'd briefly wondered if Jimmy borrowed Weird Al's band (lol even looked to see if Bermuda Schwartz was there.) Al's band is extremely under-rated! It's hard to think of styles they haven't done, really
creepy man ... what a talent this guy is
It's criminal that this is not recognized as the genius piece that it is.
It definitely is by me! Just like Stevie Ray Vaughan 😘
Totally agree! It’s brilliant! 😊 Jimmy nailed the Jim Morrison vocals and mannerisms. I love the lyrics too! The band are great too.
You are so right ✅️
It's also fake 😂
@@Casual_BackPacking Go Away!
The crazy part is if The Doors actually sang that in the 70s, it would actually been a hit
60s you mean. Jim died in 71.
Big time 😅😅
@@rromero1091 their last album came out in 71 too
If someone told me Jim wrote this song I wouldn't question it! Lol
@@rromero1091 well 70s is still a possibility lol. He died in 71. Is 1970 and 1971 not in the 70s?
Regardless of what you may think about Jimmy, the attention to detail here is stunning. Any big time Morrison fan has to smile watching this. He just gets it all right.
I'm a fan of "the DOORS" & what you said is absolutely correct! 👍🏼 🎯 💯%
Agree 100%
Agreed he just nailed every single f****** detail from the way that he stands to the way that he dresses to the way that he holds a microphone it's just phenomenal
Jimmy is WASTED being a talk show host, he really needs to just have his own musical parody show, he is SO DAMN GOOD!!!
You’re right he is wasted being a talk show host
So true! He’s so much more talented than a talk show host
I’d love to see him and Timberlake in some kind of old school variety show.
Did he really sing this or is he lip syncing?
@@Ur2ez4me81totally him singing. Check out his Neil Young videos...
I know many people dislike Fallon but this is one of the best moments in modern television
Yeah, I don't agree with Fallon about anything but good heavens, this is genius!
I'm glad to read that many ppl dislike him! pisses me off that he can pull this off so well! 🤬
@@anthonyman8008 I watched Fallon on the man show 1999-2004 he went down hill after that.
I dislike him. But this is fantastic. Antony Jez-el-neck says he’s actually a lovely guy. Don’t know why, but I trust that guy.
You still watch TV? Wow!
I'm here because of the Reading Rainbow Documentary on Netflix!
Exactly! We just watched it and we used to watch Fallon regularly and then had kids and lost touch. So sad we missed this but am so stoked by it. I can’t get enough of it. I’ve listened to it dozens of times now. So stinkin’ good as everyone else has said. Well done.
Me too. I thought it was a great doc, quite touching actually. And to top to off it gave me the gift of finding this great Fallon clip which i’d never seen before
Same, just watched it today
Same.
Somebody could pass this off as a lost Doors session and sell it as a bootleg. Seriously, it's THAT good!
so true man!
have them try Morrison's Lament next!
@@MythwrightWorkshop the 'Lament' in these woke days?
He is amazingly on point with his impression. Jim Morrison had a one-of-a-kind voice, but Fallon really captured it. Best impression I've ever seen. The Elvis impersonators have nothing on Jimmy Fallon.
PS: The druggy implications of the Lizard King belting out, "Butterfly in the sky. I can fly twice as high," are pure comedy gold.
Jim wasn't a junkie. He was a boozer.
@@FlyinggMushroom He did it all. Booze is legal and more accessible....
@@mikeblaz no, he notoriously hated the fact that Pamela was a smack head. That was one of many bumps In their road. He may have tried it once or twice, but the man wasn't slamming heroin daily you mook. He was into psychedelics, then later on his DOC was booze. You must be one of those guys that watched the movie and thought it was good, that movie destroyed his image lmao
@@FlyinggMushroom Psychedelics/acid/shrooms are better? Probably coke as well.The guy was a druggie and boozer. I like the doors but he was well known to be a asshole...
@@FlyinggMushroom I'm a pretty big fan of The Doors. Have been since I was like 12. Now, I haven't watched the movie in a long time so I maybe remembering it wrong but from what I remember of it, it depicted Jim pretty close to how 'No One Here Gets Out Alive' depicted him. I may have no go back and watch the movie again though and see if I'm remembering it wrong.
Came for the comedy, stayed for the art
"I can go twice as high"
I'm sure you can, Jim
Line is perfectly in line with something Jim would write
And the way he looked right at the camera when he sang it was a direct callback to when Jim sang "Girl we couldn't get much higher" against the direct demand of Ed Sullivan.
I think the entire song .....is pure Jim Morrison
Inspiration.
That ALSO would have gotten them banned from ever appearing on the Ed Sullivan Show again!
I JUST realized at 2:18 when he sings "I can go twice as HIGH", he purposefully looks at the camera and sings HIGH, which is exactly what made him get banned from the Ed Sullivan Show in 1967.
Shows how anal the Sullivan people were being about that line. Here is a kids show theme singing about going "twice as high" & no one thought anything of it
Pure brilliance. I got it right away the first time I saw it
It's a psychotic, brilliant little detail 😃
This is one of the best things Fallon has ever done. So very accurate to The Doors. The scream at 0:55 sounds just like Jim Morrison. Love how he incorporates children's books into the psychedelic poetry bridge. Excellent.
Yes, even the scream is perfect. How does he do it?
I just realized that he not only nailed the mannerisms, the music, the screams, and the lyrical cadence from several Doors songs but... the idea of the Doors came from a book, Doors of Perception. Which was about expanding your mind and perceiving more... which is exactly what the Reading Rainbow song is about. So even the themes are spot on. This is an awesome, awesome parody.
Good call on that one, mate. I didn’t pick up on that but I totally agree with you now that you point it out. Nice catch!
I’m a huge Doors fan and this is phenomenal.
Fallon is spot on. Probably the best impersonation I've seen and I've seen the Val Kilmer movie.
Bloody unbelievable. Every time I watch, I'm blown away by how good Fallon is by channeling Morrison
Insane how good he did this!!
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His takes on Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen are incredible. The guy really is an excellent impressionist.
It's not a stretch when Morrison was and Fallon is a functioning alcoholic.
The awesome thing is how period correct all the microphones, instruments, and sound is. Just absolutely genius!
Fallon sounds almost identical to Jim, incredible. Mannerisms are there too but damn the voice is spot on.
I wish we would see many more musical "covers" by Fallon. No one does this type of music / comedy / cover better. It's actually rather unique because the "cover" is so good you almost forget it's a comedy bit.
2024 and still here.. This is so brilliant!
This is the greatest thing Jimmy Fallon has ever done.
Say what you want about Jimmy... guy's a hell of an impressionist.
My grandfather and Jim's grandfather were brothers. Fallon did it good.
I understand this is a joke but this is a masterpiece.
Jimmy's musical salutes are magic. And the attention to detail to include the flowers on the organ......wow.
Jimmy Fallon is the greatest mimic ever. This is so precise, I can hardly believe it. Absolutely brilliant!
Check out some of Merle Haggard's impressions of his fellow country stars. He got Cash perfectly, even the way Cash played his guitar.
How did he stay in character and not lose all composure with fits of laughter? This is hilarious and genius, but mesmerizing.
If they ever bring Reading Rainbow back, I hope and pray they use this version as their theme song. ❤ Brilliant in every aspect!
Who else is here because they saw the Reading Rainbow doc on Netflix? I forgot about this clip and it made me so happy to rewatch it!!
I just watched it. And came here.
Just finished a watch party of Butterfly in the sky
This is twice as good when you remember Jim's love for literature
❤
Happy 40th Anniversary Reading Rainbow!!!
(1983 - 2023) 📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈📚🌈
I could hear this 1000x’s and never get tired of it
It should be an informal addition to the doors ouevre
Me too
It's so clever, the audience is mainly people that once loved the doors but now read these stories to their children.
Didn't know this existed before the reading rainbow documentary. So happy.
Same here lol straight to CZcams I went!
@@rosalieferrel4779 Same! 🤘🤘
The set design is a homage to The Doors' 1967 performance of "Light My Fire" on "The Ed Sullivan Show." The keyboardist seems to be playing a Vox Continental Organ - which is exactly what Ray Manzarek played on Sullivan's show in 1967. (The drum kit and guitar also seem consistent, though I haven't bothered tracking them down.) Fallon's arrangements - and use of weird, out-of-context kids' book quotations ("The Indian in the Cupboard," "There's a Monster at the End of this Book," etc.) are also totally (and hilariously) consistent with Morrison's poetic flights of symbolist/Brechtian fancy. The point being? Fallon has a spark of musical genius all his own. Gutowski's compliment is deserved.
Yeah, I thought they brought Ray back somehow!
Wow what a great breakdown I am big doors fan I'm 54 read all the books seen the movie, researched it all.
Yes Jimmy Fallon also has a liking for the doors what a talented person.
I love how he tries to portray Jim Morrison's persona dark and desolated.
He's actually playing a Gibson G101, which is what Ray played on the Sullivan show. Ray switched from the Vox Continental to the Gibson around mid-1967 b/c the plastic key caps on his Continentals kept breaking.
Wow, thanks for explaining the whole joke while failing to catch the over emphasized inflection of the word "high" towards the end.
Yes, when he starts the "Indian in the cupboard" line, I'm thinking "the killer awoke before dawn"... "he WALKED ON down the hall!"
2:00 "a very hungry caterpillar on the loose" absolute comedy genius.
He's so much more talented, and could do so much more than his late night talk show. The man's a musical genious.
@@cuckertarlson8061 Jimmy is lip sinking. He's is good though. I had a great laugh.
@@sheLLcharm Nope, sorry. He's not lip-synching. He can sing really well. Look up the songs he's recorded, you can find several here on YT. He's performed on his show with Bruce Springsteen and Neil Young, doing impressions of both. He's very talented.
His show is great. The internet just likes to hate things.
@@ComeAlongKay No, I really thought he was lip sinking...he IS talented and I love this not a hater.
@@seraiharper5553 I stand corrected. I didn't know he was singing. He is really good luved this.
Yeah! This is top notch impersonation. even right at the end where he yells: "SEE THE LIGHT, BABE!" Total Morrison. Band sounds great too.🎵🎹⚪🥁
Maybe the best imitation of JIm ever. :)
What funny is that this could pass for an actual Doors song. 😂
It could 💯💯💯💯💯
I thought it was and tried to look it up, and was surprised when I realized it was the reading rainbow theme song 😅
Actually I thought this was a cover of the doors, Jimmy really nailed it.
This is absolutely f*cking bonkers how good this is. Like..holy sh1t that was amazing😂😂😂
This is better than any tribute band I've seen thus far, I'm just now seeing this a year later and embarrassed about it.
Sorry to say but he did this on his first show, Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, over 10 years ago. 😬
@@jtcrook32 I've got some catching up to do. Watched it twice already today :)
I just keep listening to this over and over. It's perfect.
Scary how good this is.
Still the best bit from Jimmy Fallon. He should do more of these
Oh wow I wasn't expecting this to be so accurate! He really sounds like Jim and has his movements down as well. Even the band members kind of look like Robbie, Ray, and John.
This isn’t imitation, it’s channeling!!
He was so accurate on everything! The voice, the movements, the looks. Amazing!
Tears, this was absolutely side splitting!🤣🤣🤣 Love Fallon!!!
I have been a Doors fan since i was eleven yrs old. I am now forty two years old, And Jim Morrison is my musical idol, and i must say here, Jimmy Fallon could easily have portrayed Jim in the doors movie.
His voice sounds just like Jim's here.
Jim would have loved this portrayal of himself.
Even as good as Val Kilmer was portraying Jim in the movie
Fallon's voice sounds more like Jim's 100 percent absolutely immense by Jimmy Fallon you can tell he is a huge doors fan too amazing performance 👏👏👏👌✌
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Val had more the looks and name...they can always edit the sound.
Jimmy was too young when that movie was made.
Val looks just like him tho and was brilliant
Any other Doors fans come back and listen to this on occasion?
Yuppp!
Absolutely
This is worth just about every TV award that's out there. I feel like, if I wrote this and performed this, I could die happy.
This is phenomenal.
WHY IS THIS SO ABSOLUTELY PERFECT
OMG! This a national treasure! I love Jimmy❤
The blending of pure and sweet Reading Rainbow with the sultry, arguably kind of demonic end of rock and roll is unassailablely genius on the part of the Fallon team. Imagination.....well done !
As a huge Doors fan: this is sooo on point! Kudos!
Easily the greatest video on CZcams.
Credit has to given to the support players. Each of them perfectly impersonates the originals and they utterly sell the whole thing.
Jimmy you knocked it out of the ball park!!
Jimmy Fallon never ceases to amaze me!
As the like hugest fan of the Doors forever, and Jim Morrison being my idol, this is awesome.
This is genius. Jimmy Fallon is so talented.
Jimmy's talent of improvisation and imitation is great.
I can't BELIEVE he actually said "I could go twice as high", on live TV!!!!
If you heard this on the radio, with no prior introduction, you would think it really was The Lizard King ..
Man
Mad props to Fallon
Is creepy how well this works.
Jim Morrison’s “yeahhhhhh” perfect
Legendary performance by Fallon. Also the spot on details of the band
As a HUGE fan of the doors, this gave me the chills. Sounds just like Jim
Ray Lives! Thanks Jim, Ray, John, & Robbie! Wish the song could be longer!
Man am i glad to find this..
I watched this live when it aired and i had no idea what I was looking at. I was like "is this a guest band? theyre good!"
Love, love, love it!!! 🌈 Genius!
two Jims understand each other like no other
He did a damn good job impersonating Jim!!!
If this was on the radio, I could imagine being fooled into thinking this was a lost doors song
Super, I Love It! Hard to no tell it’s not Jim!
I can't be the only one that's watched this several times in a row. How awesome is Jimmy Fallon!!! I wonder if the Doors saw this what they'd think about it. Absolutely nothing short of awesome
Why did I just discover this in 2024😂 I love it
He looks like a very very very drunk Jim Morrison!
Voice is spot on!
This cover band sounded pretty damn good. Good imitation of the Doors sound! And Jimmy Fallon was channeling Morrison.
👏🏻🎸😎
This is right up there with "More Cowbell" as the best music parodies of all time, which Fallon was also a part of.
More cowbell was NOT a parody.
it was a documentary
And at a given moment he had to turn his back to the camera because he couldn't avoid a burst of laughter.
He killed it!
This band could be the perfect Doors cover band.
The second verse is proof that lyrics don't really matter; it's all about the delivery 🤣 "There's a wocket in my pocket"
I would legitimately buy an album consisting entirely of Jimmy Fallon Doors style songs. I come back to this video often
Never was a big Jimmy Fallon fan, but this is fantastic!
This actually sounds like something that Jim Morrison would've written if it wasn't written by Ronnie Krauss and Jill R. Gluckson. HAHA 🤣
Jim Morrison would be laughing at that😆😆😆😆
I have to come back and watch this at least every other month.
Everything to a tee like the Ed Sullivan Show.The attention to detail is crazy.
Well studied. Jim Morrison didn’t jump around. But he moved his body a lot in standing position and that triggered a lot of energy.
Most brilliant impression ever.
How does this not have more views...
That "anywheeeeeere" at 0:44 is so much Jim Morrison. Loved it!
He’s so talented!
GENIUS!!! BRILLIANT!!!
I forget how talented Fallon is...just insane!!