THE DOORS debut album PLATINUM AWARD MORRISON FEATURED. RIAA 4-million

Description

R A R E  and virtually impossible to find is this DOORS Platinum award of their 1967 debut album
THE DOORS.
Their breakthrough hit,
Light My Fire
lit up 40-million TV screens on the Ed Sullivan show and became an iconic Jim Morrison hit and a Jim Morrison slap in the face of Ed Sullivan when he refused to change the line  "...Girl,  we couldn't get much higher,"  to Sullivan's insistence of,  "...Girl,  we couldn't get much better."   For that transgression,  Sullivan banned the Doors from his show and cancelled their subsequent SIX appearances for future shows.  Morrison said,  "...So !  we already did the Ed Sullivan show."   That was Morrison,  who's drinking and drugs destroyed one of the greatest rock groups of all time in just a few years.  He died of alcohol and drug O.D. at 28,  following in the footsteps of the same era's  Janis Joplin and Jimmie Hendrix.
But to-date,  though the latest RIAA Certified award is only a Diamond 4X  for 4-million album sales (IN THE U.S.),  an estimated 20,000,000 albums have been sold worldwide and
THE DOORS
is listed at #42 on Rolling Stone's
500 GREATEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME
.
This award was made by my father,  Kenneth A. Kittinger,  who passed at age 91, in 2016,  but was the premier GOLD & PLATINUM awards maker for 50 years on Music Row and for Rock & Pop labels in LA and NYC.  He also made awards for the Beatles and the Rolling Stones for London labels,  Apple and others.
AWARD DESCRIPTION
:   Textured fabric background.  Graphics on top of black velvet mounted on Gold mounting board.   Gold electroplated cassette w/Morrison quotation.  RIAA "Certification Circle" (copied)  mounted on black velvet/gold cert label, black velvet under gold glitter board circle.  6-cut platinum plated Vinyl LP.   13" X 13"`1" shadow box.  3-D mounting effects.
NOTE:   THIS IS NOT AN  "OFFICIAL RIAA SALES AWARD,"  but an in-house award ordered by ELEKTRA  for distribution to music executives, DJ's and radio stations.
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his award is accompanied by three additional pieces:  Two framed items,  one modern art rendering of Jim Morrison and a reproduced concert flyer of the DOORS from a 1969 concert with Iron Butterfly at Berkeley in San Francisco.   There is also a smaller reproduced "Concert Card"  of one of the very first DOORS performances from 1968 with  THE GRATEFUL DEAD,  COUNTRY JOE & THE FISH,  JEFFERSON AIRPLANE and BIG BROTHER AND THE HOLDING COMPANY.
Mr. Kittinger designed and created more than 1,000 awards in his career in the music industry over five decades,  including a range of performers from Elvis Presley to Nat King Cole;  The Beatles and Rolling Stones to AC/DC, Queen,  Bob Dylan and in every music genre across the spectrum.
A Certificate of Authenticity is provided with the award,  personalized with any name provided via ebay message and an identical generic COA is also issued so the owner might gift,  sell or leave the award in the future without a personalized COA.
If you would like to view some of the other current awards and collectibles from Mr. Kittinger's estate,  visit this link:
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