Tears in the Morning

"Tears in the Morning" is a song written by Bruce Johnston for the American rock band The Beach Boys. It was released on their 1970 album Sunflower. It was also released as a single, with the B-side of the single being "It's About Time". The single reached the top 5 in the Netherlands, the top 10 in Belgium, and did not chart in the US or the UK.

"Tears in the Morning"
Single by The Beach Boys
from the album Sunflower
B-side"It's About Time"
ReleasedOctober 12, 1970 (1970-10-12)[1]
RecordedNovember 18, 1969; January 26 & 28, 1970
Length4:07
LabelBrother/Reprise
Songwriter(s)Bruce Johnston
Producer(s)The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys singles chronology
"Slip on Through"
(1970)
"Tears in the Morning"
(1970)
"Cool, Cool Water"
(1971)

Personnel

Sourced from Craig Slowinski[2] and Timothy White.[3]

The Beach Boys

Additional musicians

  • Ronald Benson – guitar, mandolin
  • Ray Pohlman – bass
  • Daryl Dragonvibraphone
  • Hal Blaine – drums
  • Carl Fortina – French concertina
  • Igor Horoshevsky – cello
  • Anatol Kaminsky, Sam Freed, Marvin Limonick, David Frisina, George Kast, Nathan Kaproff, Alexander Murray, Dorothy Wade – violins
  • Virginia Majewski, Robert Ostrowsky, Alvin Dinkin, Allan Harstian – violas
  • Edgar Lustgarten – cello
  • Abe Luboff – arco double bass
  • unknown – trombone

Production staff

Chart performance

Chart (1971) Peak
position
Dutch GfK chart[4] 4
Dutch Top 40[5] 6

Cover versions

Belgian pop band The Radios covered the song in their 1990 album No Television.

Norwegian stoner rock band Thulsa Doom recorded a cover version of this song in 2005 for their album Keyboard, Oh Lord! Why Don't We?.

References

  1. Badman, Keith. The Beach Boys. The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Band: On Stage and in the Studio Backbeat Books, San Francisco, California, 2004. ISBN 0-87930-818-4 p. 278
  2. Slowinski, Craig (Summer 2020). "Sunflower: 50 Year Anniversary Special Edition (Issue 130, Volume 33, No. 3)". Endless Summer Quarterly Magazine (Magazine). Charlotte, North Carolina, USA: David Beard.
  3. White, Timothy (2000). Sunflower/Surf's Up (CD Liner). The Beach Boys. Capitol Records.
  4. "dutchcharts.nl - The Beach Boys - Tears In The Morning". Retrieved 24 February 2009.
  5. "De Nederlandse Top 40, week 2, 1971". Retrieved 24 February 2009.
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