A Beautiful Morning

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"A Beautiful Morning"
A Beautiful Morning - Rascals.gif
Single by The Rascals
B-side"Rainy Day"
ReleasedMarch 22, 1968
RecordedMarch 6 & 8, 1968
StudioA&R Studios, New York
Genre
Length2:32
LabelAtlantic
Songwriter(s)Felix Cavaliere and Eddie Brigati
Producer(s)The Rascals
The Rascals singles chronology
"It's Wonderful"
(1967) 		"A Beautiful Morning"
(1968) 		"People Got to Be Free"
(1968)

"A Beautiful Morning" is a song written by Felix Cavaliere and Eddie Brigati and recorded by the Rascals. Coming out in early 1968, it was the group's first single released under that name rather than the Young Rascals. The single was one of the earliest released in stereo, as 7-inch singles generally were in mono.[3] Together with the Doors "Hello, I Love You" it's credited with changing the industry standard of singles.[4]

The song continued the theme of carefree optimism that had distinguished the previous year's "Groovin'". The song was written one morning in Honolulu, Hawaii when the band was invited to perform there by promoter Tom Moffatt. It became a big hit in the United States, reaching number 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and also reaching number 36 on the Hot Rhythm & Blues Singles chart.[5] It was RIAA-certified as a Million Seller on June 28, 1968. The first album on which the song appeared was Time Peace: The Rascals' Greatest Hits.

Chart performance[]

Other versions[]

Renée Geyer covered the song on her album Dedicated (2007).

In other media[]

The song is featured in a Scrubs episode, at the start of a season 6 episode with Zach Braff who plays J.D. dancing to it. It was also featured at the end of a second-season episode of The Greatest American Hero in which Ralph had to disarm a nuclear missile. It was also featured in the movie Kingpin immediately following the scene that shows how Roy got his rubber hand. The song was featured during the 1969 college graduation scene in The First Wives Club. The song was also used in the 1993 movie A Bronx Tale opening the racetrack scene, as well as on Arrow at the end of the eighteenth episode of the fifth season, titled "Disbanded".[11]

The song was also featured in season 3 episode 14 and season 5 episode 1 of The King of Queens.

References[]

  1. ^ Greenwald, Matthew, A Beautiful Morning - The Rascals, retrieved 2021-04-29, One of the Rascals' most lovely and timeless creations, "A Beautiful Morning" neatly encapsulated the group's R&B roots
  2. ^ Greenwald, Matthew, A Beautiful Morning - The Rascals, retrieved 2021-04-29, In the end, it's nothing short of one of the finest pop creations of the late '60s.
  3. ^ "Early Stereo Singles Discography (1958-1961)". www.bsnpubs.com. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
  4. ^ Everett, Walter (May 2010). "'If You're Gonna Have a Hit': Intratextual Mixes and Edits of Pop Recordings". Popular Music. 29 (2): 233. doi:10.1017/s026114301000005x.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 482.
  6. ^ http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/discover/films-videos-sound-recordings/rpm/Pages/image.aspx?Image=nlc008388.5786&URLjpg=http%3a%2f%2fwww.collectionscanada.gc.ca%2fobj%2f028020%2ff4%2fnlc008388.5786.gif&Ecopy=nlc008388.5786
  7. ^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–2002
  8. ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-01.
  9. ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1968/Top 100 Songs of 1968". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-01.
  10. ^ "Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 28, 1968". Archived from the original on October 9, 2016. Retrieved December 31, 2018.
  11. ^ "Arrow recap: 'Disbanded'". Entertainment Weekly. March 29, 2017. Retrieved May 5, 2017.

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