A Beautiful Morning
"A Beautiful Morning" | ||||
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Single by The Rascals | ||||
from the album Time Peace: The Rascals Greatest Hits | ||||
B-side | "Rainy Day" | |||
Released | March 22, 1968 | |||
Recorded | March 6 & 8, 1968 | |||
Studio | A&R Studios, New York | |||
Genre | ||||
Length | 2:32 | |||
Label | Atlantic | |||
Songwriter(s) | Felix Cavaliere and Eddie Brigati | |||
Producer(s) | The Rascals | |||
The Rascals singles chronology | ||||
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"A Beautiful Morning" is a song written by
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Chart performance
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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. It 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. Sugar Pine 7 used it in the episode of the same name from their webseries Alternative Lifestyle in 2017. The song's opening lines featured prominently in a 2002 TV commercial for the (since-recalled) pain reliever Vioxx, which opens with an idyllic clip of former Olympic champion figure skater Dorothy Hamill, skating on a pond amid bright sunshine.
It was also used with a cover in Bounce fabric softener ad campaign in the 1990's.
The song was used in a documentary of football club AFC Ajax about their 5-1 win over Liverpool F.C. in 1966.
References
- R&Broots
- ^ 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.
- ^ "The Stereo Singles Project, Part 4 Atlantic & Related Labels Stereo 45s (1968-70)". www.bsnpubs.com. 2021-10-05. Archived from the original on 2021-10-05. Retrieved 2021-07-09.
- S2CID 162240986.
- ^ a b Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 482.
- ^ Image : RPM Weekly - Library and Archives Canada
- ^ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955–2002
- ^ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. Retrieved 2016-10-01.
- ^ "Top 100 Hits of 1968/Top 100 Songs of 1968". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-10-01.
- ^ "Cash Box Year-End Charts: Top 100 Pop Singles, December 28, 1968". Archived from the original on October 9, 2016. Retrieved December 31, 2018.
- ^ "Arrow recap: 'Disbanded'". Entertainment Weekly. March 29, 2017. Retrieved May 5, 2017.
External links
- Song Review from Allmusic
- The Rascals - A Beautiful Morning on YouTube