The Morning After (Maureen McGovern album)

The Morning After
The Morning After
Studio album by Maureen McGovern
Released	July 1973
Recorded	Spring 1973
Genre	Pop
Length	29:56
Label	20th Century
Producer	Carl Maduri
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The Morning After was Maureen McGovern's first studio album, released in July 1973 (see 1973 in music).

The album was released by popular demand following an Academy Award win for Best Song for "The Morning After", written by Al Kasha and Joel Hirschhorn. After the song's subsequent rise up the Billboard Top 100 charts, the eponymous album was released, eventually peaking in September at #77 on the Billboard Hot 200 list of popular albums.

"The Morning After" is the first track on the record. McGovern composed the music for the fourth and sixth tracks. Cover versions include Paul Williams' "I Won't Last a Day Without You" (which was an adult-contemporary hit for McGovern before becoming a national hit for The Carpenters) and Buffy Sainte-Marie's "Until It's Time for You to Go."

McGovern dedicated the album to her parents, Mary and James McGovern.

Track listing[]

Side 1
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"The Morning After" ([Song from The Poseidon Adventure])	Al Kasha, Joel Hirschhorn	2:20
2.	"I Won't Last a Day Without You"	Paul Williams, Roger Nichols	3:52
3.	"And This I Find Is Beautiful"	Mack David, Larry Weiss	2:24
4.	"Midnight Storm"	Maureen McGovern, Jimmy Kennedy	2:41
5.	"It Might as Well Stay Monday (From Now On)"		3:09

Side 2
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"If I Wrote You a Song"	Maureen McGovern, Jimmy Kennedy	3:07
2.	"Don't Try to Close a Rose"		3:04
3.	"Darlene"		3:16
4.	"Can't You Hear the Song"	Chris Arnold, David Martin, Geoff Morrow	3:40
5.	"Until It's Time for You to Go"	Buffy Sainte-Marie	2:23

Personnel and production[]

Arranged by Joe Hudson (tracks 1, 4, 5 & 7), Michel Rubini (tracks 2 & 8), Gene Page (tracks 3, 6 & 10), Gary Kekel (in tandem with Joe Hudson on track 4) & Bob Hill (track 9)
Conducted by Joe Hudson (tracks 1, 4, 5 & 7) & Bob Hill (tracks 2, 3, 6, 8, 9 & 10)
Produced by Carl Maduri for Belkin-Maduri Productions
Engineered and mixed by Arnie Rosenberg
All guitars by Bob Fraser
Drums and percussion by Bill Severance
Recorded at: Agency Recording Studios 1730 E. 24th Cleveland, OH 44114

Charts[]

Year	Chart	Position
1973	Billboard Top LPs & Tapes	77

Singles

Year	Single	Chart	Position
1973	"The Morning After"	The Billboard Hot 100	1
	"The Morning After"	Billboard Easy Listening	6
	"I Won't Last a Day Without You"	The Billboard Hot 100	89
	"I Won't Last a Day Without You"	Billboard Easy Listening	14

hide v t Maureen McGovern
Studio albums	The Morning After Nice to Be Around Academy Award Performance: And the Envelope, Please Maureen McGovern Another Woman in Love Baby I'm Yours Out of This World A Long and Winding Road
Live albums	Naughty Baby
Compilation albums	Greatest Hits 20th Century Masters – The Millennium Collection: The Best of Maureen McGovern
Singles	"The Morning After" "I Won't Last a Day Without You" "We May Never Love Like This Again" "The Continental" "Can You Read My Mind" "Different Worlds" "Can't Take My Eyes Off You" "We Could Have It All" "You Belong to Me"