<P> Jim Morrison wrote the song in 1965 . The track was one of six demos, and was not released until three years later . </P> <P> While the band was recording their third album, Waiting For The Sun, there was some difficulty as Morrison's drinking was making work impossible . Drummer John Densmore threatened to quit the band and the rest of the band decided to look through some of Morrison's old poems in an effort to calm him down . One of the poems, "Hello I Love You", had been written one afternoon, while Morrison and Ray Manzarek watched a girl walking on the beach . Early American pressings of the single used the title "Hello I Love You Won't You Tell Me Your Name". </P> <P> In the liner notes to The Doors Box Set, Robby Krieger has denied the allegations that the song's musical structure was stolen from Ray Davies, where a riff similar to it is featured in The Kinks' "All Day and All of the Night". Instead, Krieger said the song's vibe was taken from Cream's song "Sunshine of Your Love". But Davies has continued to assert that the Doors' song was based on his . In a 2012 interview with Mojo magazine, Davies said, "The funniest thing was when my publisher came to me on tour and said The Doors had used the riff for' All Day And All Of The Night' for' Hello, I Love You .' I said rather than sue them, can't we just get them to own up? My publisher said,' They have, that's why we should sue them!"' And in a 2014 interview with Rolling Stone, Davies suggested that an out - of - court settlement had been reached with the Doors . </P> <P> The last verse was written by Jim Morrison three years prior to the album recordings, reportedly about a woman he saw walking while living on Venice Beach . </P>

Hello i love you will you tell me your name