Tears in the Morning
| "Tears in the Morning" | ||||
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.jpg) 7" vinyl Swedish single cover | ||||
| Single by the Beach Boys | ||||
| from the album Sunflower | ||||
| B-side | "It's About Time" | |||
| Released | October 12, 1970[1] | |||
| Recorded | November 18, 1969 – January 28, 1970 | |||
| Length | 4:07 | |||
| Label | Brother/Reprise | |||
| Songwriter | Bruce Johnston | |||
| Producer | The Beach Boys | |||
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"Tears in the Morning" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1970 album Sunflower. Written by Bruce Johnston, it was issued as a single, with the B-side "It's About Time". The single failed to chart in the U.S., but reached the top 5 in the Netherlands.
Personnel
[edit]Sourced from Craig Slowinski[2] and Timothy White.[3]
The Beach Boys
- Al Jardine – harmony and backing vocals
- Bruce Johnston – lead vocals, harmony and backing vocals, Rocksichord, grand piano (during coda), production
- Mike Love – harmony and backing vocals
- Brian Wilson – harmony and backing vocals
- Carl Wilson – harmony and backing vocals, guitar
Additional musicians
- Ronald Benson – guitar, mandolin
- Ray Pohlman – bass
- Daryl Dragon – vibraphone
- 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
- Michel Colombier – arranger
- Stephen Desper – engineer
Cover versions
[edit]- 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?
- Dutch coverband Beach Boys' Best covered this song in 2025 in the 5th season of the Dutch TV show The Tribute: Battle of the Bands. The same year, the song returns in the Dutch Top2000 after three years of absence, on position 404; the highest ranking ever in this chart.
Charts
[edit]| Chart (1971) | Peak position |
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| Dutch GfK chart[4] | 4 |
| Dutch Top 40[5] | 6 |
| US Record World | 117 |
| Dutch Top2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 |
| Position | 404 | - | - | - | 1920 | 1879 | 1906 | 1749 | 1101 | 1184 | 1334 | 997 | 1048 | 1433 | 768 | 618 | 632 | 629 | 775 | 789 | 607 | 578 | 448 | 508 | 406 | 470 | 453 |
References
[edit]- ^ 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
- ^ 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.
- ^ White, Timothy (2000). Sunflower/Surf's Up (CD Liner). The Beach Boys. Capitol Records.
- ^ "dutchcharts.nl - The Beach Boys - Tears In The Morning". Retrieved 24 February 2009.
- ^ "De Nederlandse Top 40, week 2, 1971". Retrieved 24 February 2009.[permanent dead link]
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