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Smith's spoken intro begins "Jesus died for somebody's sins, but not mine". Based on the Morrison tune, the lyrics are reinvented for the nascent punk rock movement, retaining little more than the chorus, and adding possibly ironic allusions to the sacred allusions of the title.

1975 – Patti Smith recorded it for her album Horses.

The song is included on Legacy: The Absolute Best (2003) and The Very Best of The Doors (2007). It was also released as a single, which reached number 18 on Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks and number 71 on Billboard Hot 100 in 1983.

1968–1970 – The Doors performed the song several times, with one recording released on Alive, She Cried (1983).

The song reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966, due to its popularity with radio stations that chose not to play Them's original due to its more controversial lyrics – the Shadows of Knight replaced Morrison's line "She comes to my room" with "She calls out my name". Janovitz describes it as "a faithful, though tamer version of the original".

1965 – The Shadows of Knight recorded "Gloria", which was released as a single in December 1965 and later included on the album of the same name.

The song also appears on several compilations, including The Story of Them Featuring Van Morrison (1997) and The Best of Van Morrison (1990). "Gloria" was added to Them's first UK album The Angry Young Them (1965), which was re-titled with some different tracks as Them in the US. Ĭash Box described it as "a bluesy, up tempo stomp'er devoted to 'Gloria. Both peaked during the week of, with Them at number 75 and the Shadows of Knight at number 10. A year later, after the release of a cover version of "Gloria" by the Shadows of Knight, Them's original entered the national Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Between March and June 1965, the single (both songs) appeared on weekly Top 40 playlists for Los Angeles radio station KRLA, reaching number one for three weeks in April.

In the US, the same pairing was released by Parrot Records, which became a regional hit on the US West Coast. Releases and charts ĭecca Records released "Gloria" as the B-side of " Baby, Please Don't Go" in the UK on 6 November 1964, with only the latter reaching the singles chart. Although some sources claim that Jimmy Page played second guitar, other sources deny this. There remains some dispute about whether Millings and McCauley were actually miked, but Alan Henderson contends that Them constituted the first rock group to use two drummers on a recording. Rowe brought in session musicians Arthur Greenslade on organ and Bobby Graham on drums and timbals, since he considered the Them members too inexperienced. After signing a contract with Dick Rowe and Decca, Them went to London for a recording session at Decca Three Studios in West Hampstead on 5 April 1964 "Gloria" was one of the seven songs recorded that day.īesides Morrison, present were Billy Harrison on electric guitar, Alan Henderson on bass, Ronnie Millings on drums and Pat McCauley on organ. He would ad-lib lyrics as he performed, sometimes stretching the song to 15 or 20 minutes. He started to perform it at the Maritime Hotel when he returned to Belfast and joined up with the Gamblers to form the band Them. I've been searching a long time For someone exactly like you I've been traveling all around the world Waiting for you to come through Someone like you Make it all worth while Someone like you Keep me satisfied.According to Morrison, he wrote "Gloria" while performing with the Monarchs in Germany in the summer of 1963, at just about the time he turned 18 years old.