Early In The Morning - Vanity Fare

[429thunderbird]

And some people thought Vanity Fare was a One Hit Wonder..(Hithin a Ride)...

[prerana68]

I TRAVEL BACK TO MY CHILDHOOD IN GUYANA AND DONT SEEM TO WANT TO COME BACK!!!

[docgonzales]

Funny, i was about to comment how much Jellyfishs song Bye Bye Bye is indebited to this song but all i hear is Hugo Montenegros 'theme from the Fox' . Good song.

[johnbyrne061250]

we loved them in Australia as well. great to hear a pop singer who can sing.

[avjumble]

The b side was 'you made me love you' would love to hear that again!

[JohnnyGNV]

I do remember this song - and I remember the Group as well - oh yes this was "back in the days" when Musicians played actual instruments, and you had to actually sing and play. It wasn't strictly "electronic" music and screaming disgusting lyrics - this was good clean "pop" music and frankly I miss it.

[praline753]

SUPER!!! merci...

[qhorse448]

I love this song!

[CinematicFlows]

Like if Nore and Styles P brought you here

[doghousecptn]

Hauntingly beautiful song. Brings back some great childhood memories.

[18blackball]

Melodic genius !!!!!

[Nickie0016]

Great song! love it!

[jamesmay1960]

I am 51 and still findind great hits from the 60,s and 70,s I never heard like this great hit...

[Oldag75]

Stupendous song.

[InsaneSurvivors6]

This song has a significant meaning which totally makes my theme.I thank everyone for that.

[TheEricdaniels]

I was just coming home in the car and this song came into my head. Had to hear it again. Brilliant!

[nanlisa]

One of the many songs that this then-12-year-old (that's me) first heard on WFIL, Famous 56, here in Philadelphia. I just love this song.

[alvill48]

To myefjeans, You got that right . Unless they use the same lyrics and instruments and sung by someone that can come close, it will never be matched. Fact! They may as well take a seat and listen. 60's- 70's music is here to stay. We were so honored with the music and beat by all this groups,

[regentv980]

Classic that takes me back

[georgios895]

Very easy on the ears...great song

[vinnyhoags]

Far out. Kids, can you dig it  !! Sorry your music blows

[choralstuart]

love this to death!

[bluekirk21]

coming back from college one spring morning in the 60's this came on the radio,perfect

[ydogpig]

Fantastic, simply beautiful- one of the best songs ever I like this

[lb4rb1]

One of my old school mates father passed away last week. We used to play this all day long in their house when we were growing up. RIP Don. Thanks for the posting.

[GaetanoGB]

So simple yet lovely song! Many people don't even remember it...

[MsBunty123]

yes it was so simple then regards to who reads this

[marcelondarci]

life was so simple back then...

[Cheessa]

This song reminds me on when the days were beautiful, the times were innocent, a safe world, nice song, nice melody...hopeful times.

[waluleeb]

This song has been still so beautiful. It recalled me when I was a teen-ager.

Very impressive!

walulee

[doctortabby]

I was playing through this melody recently and had been asking people what it was and no one could tell me. I tried some various titles tonight but had no success (I knew almost none of the lyrics). Just for fun I found a recording of "Tracy" by the Cufflinks. This was on the side and I clicked on it with no idea of what it was, it just looked sort of fimiliar. Talk about devine providence! What a cool little bonus to end the day! Thank you Lord and thank you 45rpm Singles!

[myfnjeans]

Kids. . .pay attention. . .this is how it's done. Nothing today compares the music of the 60's and early 70's. . . that's the way it will always be!!

[primogennaio]

@myfnjeans Perfect! Could not have said it better myself.

[primogennaio]

Respond to this video..What a great song! How I long for the days when this song was a hit, and all the other fabulous music from that time. Today's music, especially rap, is pure cRAP.

[CedricBultez]

@primogennaio not 100% rap songs are crap, but most of them, like 99%: are pure crap...

[iwasanangryyoungman]

@primogennaio you gotta laud the efforts of producers diggin' their moms' vinyl crates to recycle near-forgotten gems to turn into sick beats. If it weren't for Kanye, would 21st century kids get to discover the virtuosity that is Laura Nyro and King Crimson?

[primogennaio]

@iwasanangryyoungman Not just Kanye. Occasionally the old tunes get a push in the movies or tv. Much of the music from that time was popular due to cultural and political reasons which are no longer contemporary. The rest of the blame is record companies which produce music for glitzy costumes and special effect, and no regard for quality.

[cepson]

Was this covered by a female singer around the same time it came out, early 70's? I seem to remember listening to a different version when I was a kid, and I'd swear it was a woman singing. But then maybe that's just the vagaries of memory.

[born2groove422]

nice song. luv the keys, good voice

[OdoubleTO]

Styles feat. N.O.R.E. - Come Thru samples this fine little tune ;)

[Nickie0016]

can never compare 60s music to anything to today!

[WeirdFrenz]

@Nickie0016 yes the kids of the sixties were very priveleged kids. they had access to natural food more than now. they had access to brand new technology at relatively cheaper prices. they did not have the same anxiety of influence. they did not have the anxiety of knowing that everything they do i.e. owning cars, taking birth control, etc. can have such negative implications. they did not live in such a media saturated time. they lived near the height of uncontested american hegemony...

[Nickie0016]

@WeirdFrenz

WELL SAID!!!!!!!!

[jbibb66]

Great song I had forgotten this one Thanks.

[MrBuckwilliam]

mighty fine song, one of my absolute faves too. i loved it since i first heard it many moons ago... i was twelve :)

also, a very special hello to my jennifer june, with much love and respect always :)

[DAUROIS1]

French version by Claude françois.

[BakaRangerTeal]

Why wasn't i born in the sixties? ;~;

[musicollector1975]

stofpoeper, I will give that one a listen. Any station that plays stuff such as this is in my good books. Those were the days when no-talent carnival freaks such as lady gag were not around. This one is actually better their other great song, "Hitchin' A Ride". Who needs drugs when one can get high on memories from a gentler, carefree time?

[spacepatrolman]

@musicollector1975 there is one lady gaga video worth watching the one with pictures of george nader vanity fair did i live for the sun by the sunrays on their album

[lb4rb1]

Thank for posting this, really brings back memories of my youth. Use to play this on my mate's record player when his Dad was out as we were not supposed to use it.

[Derwentcub]

Absolutely wonderful - thanks so much for posting.. :-)

[999carpet]

Remember buying this record out of my paper round money, i were 14 at the time ... good memories.

[ramirochivadecorazon]

Espero entiendas español, pero no tendras la original de you made me love you it´s for me the best song. bye

[stafylides]

Gosh, I haven't heard this one in years! Thank you.

[orionscause]

perfect song. perfect harmonies. thanks for posting this ,

[pudmaak]

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. I've always loved this song. The best era ever for music. Thanks so much, 45rpmSINGLES, for posting this.

[myfnjeans]

Damn, this is how it's done!!!

[Bobbo293]

One of the greatest pop songs of all time!

[harponercam]

I was delivering newspapers at 4:45 am when this was on the radio and I found it later in the dollar bin- good song that reminds me of those times- in the summer I'd see the sun rising.

[regentv980]

@LadyLillianContessa You are so right,time i remember so well

[regentv980]

Lovely song,so many good songs from this time!

[notwaiting]

There are still a lot of oldies that just don't get played by the so called "Oldies Stations" and this is one of them.

Hey Oldies Stations..............Start diggin' a little deeper into the archives and see how diverse the music industry used to be!

Enough of Bob Seeger's "Old Time Rock N Roll", we get it, now just do it!!

[primogennaio]

What better example of the wonderful music from the 1960S?

[spareaxe]

That is one weird lead guitar riff.

[HitodamaKyrie]

ITT - Old people

[khj93play]

I thought I saw them do this song on a video in 1970. Great song. Too bad the oldies stations of today have forgotten this song!

[PeteRieck]

One of the best songs!! 

[Dickola100]

Very pretty song! I haven't heard this since the late 60s, and had forgotten it until I stumbled on it here.

[poinl900]

Second best song EVA

[smimfan]

WOW! I just found this song by accident. I never knew who did this. Fantastic...Although I always thought a female sang this. Now I can groove whenever I want !!! Yea baby!

[yukiya113]

Romantic, isn't it? Thanks.

[jadegreenkaty]

this is the song I have been looking for, for several months! I had this on a 45, and fell in love it. Thanks for posting

[rich88b]

@jadegreenkaty - Why don't you go and see them in the Solid Silver Sixties tour from Feb - June in a town near you!!! Look on Vanity Fare's Facebook page or Flying Music for details!

[MrMotownmanny]

Great Song. You mean to tell me this was cover song? I'd thought vanity fair had it first I remember hearing on the radio every morning when I was getting ready for school. Having my bowl of Wheaties,getting my books, Mom driving my sister and myself to school.

[prettymom777]

I have to sayit was the best era for music, at least for my generation, although I was born in '59. While I'll admit to loving "Don't Forget Me When I'm Gone" by Glass Tiger, and many of Eric Carmen's and Raspberries songs, the music sure was great when I was a kid.

[Frazzo]

@prettymom777

I was floored hearing this tune, as I'm sure I last heard it when it was on the play list of the local radio station back then. At first I didn't remember it and then the sudden ahhh ya ... now I remember.

Cheers.

[prettymom777]

@Frazzo The headphones are gone. Overuse. The new ones are all tangled up, so I'll just have to turn the radio up for that aweet sound and wait until my son helps me undo things.

It's great to be a kid again!

PM777

[senegal1954]

Thank you! I agree fully with jet997u,the best music are from that era!

[johnnypoker46]

Great song, which for some reason makes me think of a chocolate malted milkshake. Must be that harpsichord. The rest of the LP was pretty good too.

I can't stand "Hitchin' A Ride" however.

[prettymom777]

@johnnypoker46 It's just about a guy needing to get back to his lady and not having money or a car to do it with. I understand it fully, but haven't been in that predicament. I grew up with that one, too, though.

When music meant something, I was just a kid, but some of the music from the 80's was pretty good, too.

I get sad when I hear some of my teeenager's music.

PM777

[organpipes61]

Great song, brings back very nice memories. Thanks for posting.

[mmangum4444]

another forgotten hit during my teen years! Thanks for posting!

[Bluntfacts]

Excellent video montage and i don't say that lightly.

[mrcharlie1997]

Wow! This brings back memories. I remember my parents buying me my first record player for Christmas 1969. I was seven and this was the only 45 they had bought for me. I wore it out. Thanks for this posting.

[beachside03]

Nice ethnic vibe to this little number - a haunted kitsch classic!

[prettymom777]

I still love this song! My daughter is 17 today and she wouldn't understand it! HAHAHAHAaa! What they don't know. Some day, I'll get speakers and play it onto the street whenever she walks by...

[MrTrashcan1]

What a great song! What a wonderful era for pop music! Thanks for posting.

[ctdsnark]

It's funny how a kid's mind works sometimes---I was seven when I first heard this,and because of what I'm assuming is a harpsichord's use in the song,I somehow equated this with Lurch of the Addams Family.

[fethard1]

Great Song!!

[Digflatline59]

Found this in the attic the other day! Tardis needed quickly, wanna go back to a better era lol!

[choralstuart]

GOd I love this song..those 70's days are so far away..lets all take a time capsule back there and stay forever!

[rich88b]

I saw these guys the other night and they are BRILLIANT - so talented in singing and the huge number of instruments they play!!!!

[choralstuart]

Yeah luvly memories love the 70's

[ladyrockndoowop]

Very nice, love the pictures with it and the information. Rock on! ☺ ☺ ☺ ♪♫

[ccagg65]

Wow....an incredible collection of Vanity Fare memorabilia....thanks for the song!

[haydelmp28]

amo esta cancion me recuerda mucho a mama TE EXTRAÑO Y PIENSO EN TI TODOS LOS DIAS . TE AMO DONDE QUIERA QUE ESTES

[MrBuckwilliam]

wonderful and fulla great memories :)

[peteboy1113]

sept 1969, kennedy jr high scholl waltham mass. home room 101 with mr brinklow, joe dube mike ditsasio, karen embley,darlean dicredico, bob demarco, just to name a few. and the kid who sat next to me - tommy donlon, who i miss so much. tommy was killed on 24july1972,on lake st in waltham mass we were 14. we had just got out of 9th grade.i miss tommy so much,any song from the fall of 69 thur 72, i think of him.he sat next to me,in homeroom.14sept1957-24july1972­.still in my heart,peter edmunds RIP

[nycbbbco]

great song--great era---great post---thanks

[peteboy1113]

+10. READ MY COMMENT.

[knt2011]

I love that song!!

[singalaz]

60's the very best years!!!!!!!! thanks for the memories

[moorlock2003]

This is 1970.

[elise464]

Thanks for this video !!

[juan58102]

Oh God! What a memories! I can remember now how happy teens years a had! With my friends playing in the beach in Arica Chile. Attending at the Instituto Comercial. Juan Salinas

[killjoytjp]

Thanks still a great song!

[stina586]

Sixties were the best!!

[88cutty]

In many ways the sixties WERE the best !

[moorlock2003]

and The Seventies

[TheButterflygarden]

Great song.....and yes the 60's was one of the best decades for music!!!!

[islandstyle77]

This is just a great song! There are some other songs by the same title, but this is the one I was looking for. I agree with the other comments that this original recording is the best, and soooo easy to sing along, too. THANKS for posting it for us all to enjoy. It is a song that you will never forget.

[rwells47]

Thanks- this is a very pretty song! Ron

[nyxx9]

Thank you for posting the original recording. It sounds so much better than the downloads that are available to purchase now.

[prettymom777]

One of the best of the era!  I'm beginning to think the best music came out when I was 10 to 15.

[suziestar777]

@prettymom777

ur certainly right!!! cheers

[jjkoekemoer]

@prettymom777 Hi There... I was between 0 to 10 hahahaha How I wish I'd been older back then, still, atleast some of theese groups are still going,maybe not All with original artists but still Great..Have a great day Prettymom...regaurds..Julie.xx

[janetatp]

@prettymom777  It did..

[JET997u]

@prettymom777 The best music, indeed. The years from about 1961 to 1973 was an extraordinary period of creativity for so many diverse music types: pop, rock, jazz, soul, R&B, blues, folk and even folk-rock fusion. Incredible.

[annekasm]

@prettymom777 Agree! Sadly I wasn't even born yet back then. But my parents are the same age as you, so I heard those songs after they bought some tapes (yes, remeber those?) with 'old' music. Love at first sight! Like most of the stuff back in the day, this song too was translated to estonian. So I never knew the title of the original. Finding this now made my day!

[TheDavidjoy]

@prettymom777 If it was the 60's then you are spot on. Poor kids today have something called rap and dance music. Now repetitive rubbish would be a better name. Thank heavens my time was earlier!

[wehavejoy]

Fantastic song!

1:11 (far left) Austin Powers, anyone?

[1979Saluki]

I plugged so many quarters to hear this and Hitchin' a Ride. Great to have this post.

[StraightShooter357]

What a great song! Thanks for the posting.

[Livesteam45]

wonderful little tune.....thanks for posting

[MrZ2z2]

If any1 could put up Vanity Fair's version of 'Anything Goes', I'd appreciate it. Thank you.

[musicollector1975]

Memories all over the Internet! Why doesn't radio have the good taste to play gems such as these? :-(

[lioshenka]

Radio 2 do from time to time

[lioshenka]

Sorry, I meant BBc of course... That's where I heeard this song first!

[Ladyrants]

I totally agree. They play the same stuff over and over but they never play songs like this.

[Rimber6]

Because it's capitalism, and yes you can change that

[stofpoeper]

@musicollector1975 There are many internet radio stations doing exactly just this. My fav streaming station is Offshore music, playing the music as it was from the pirate ships from those years.

Regards

[popeyenick]

Been looking for this for ages...i was 7 or 8 when it was out in England...always remember my mum singing it in the morning//Great tune

[Elldee626]

Awesome song! I remember roller-skating to this at our local rink. The tempo kind of reminds me of a Jewish folksong--but that is not a bad thing!!!

[798389]

Wonderful song.

[Ladyrants]

Thank you for posting this song. I thought I'd never hear it again. Lovely harmonies.

[GregSr]

Great song! I just turned 16 and got my driver's license here in southern California.

On the rare occasion when my parents allowed me to drive the family car to my part time job at Jack in the Box, I would crank up the tunes on the AM radio and this song was frequently playing. Of course, I always took the longest route to work just to extend the driving fun.

[recordmans1948]

late dec 69 happy tune were good songs came out. good times great world was then.

[skilski2003]

Beautiful, beautiful!!!

[lioshenka]

Time machine needed urgently, I am going back!

Great song.

[choralstuart]

@lioshenka haha Dr who where r u lol!

[Glinkaism1]

@lioshenka Beam me back, too! There was a wonderful time capsule of a few years where ALL the lyrics could be heard. And arrangements were lyrical and innovative.

[myfnjeans]

@lioshenka : Take me with you.

[kirbygene]

@lioshenka -- Take me too

[maniactough]

why is there 4 members then 5 members on the albums not being a smart a** but just wondering?

[JackPlatt]

AWESOME!!!!! My bus driver played this on tape when I took the bus to Nursey School in 1970!!!! hahahaha! I remember this melody almost 40 years later! I loved it than, and I love it now!!!

[chatham43]

...another gem by this group is " Man Child" the flipside of "Hitchin", which is never ever played. Shame.

[Xxsingstar1212xX]

\my Dad was in the original Vanity Fare, I got all the songs, and Man Child is one of my faves!!! Trevor had such a fantastic range. My Dad was the Bass player Tony.

there ya go, nice to see their music is being enjoyed still. those were the days ay?

[CTMarineMom]

makes me sooo happy just to hear it

[sacredo07]

The Cuff Links were the voice of Ron Dante, who was also The Archies and not Andy Kim as always rumored.

[jtg2507]

always liked this better than hitch'in!

[phill90212]

Super Job, GREAT POSTINGS. I am ripping a lot of these to mp3.

[keith490783]

Correction - The Cuff Links were American of course and Polly Browne was the the one female lead singer of Picketywitch

[keith490783]

Around the 1969/1970 period we had groups around from England like Vanity Fair, The Cuff Links, Edison Lighthouse, Whiteplains, Picketywitch (with two female singers added), from what Ive read they were basically studio bands many with same members and I found a lot of this bubble gum type music very enjoyable to listen to.

[Oldiesmann]

Both White Plains and Edison Lighthouse featured lead vocals by Tony Burrows, who was also part of The Pipkins and The First Class.

[Voxamania]

If Ron Dante was the heart of The Cuff Links, then Tony Burrows was the heart and soul of Edison Lighthouse, White Plains, and Brotherhood of Man. In fact, at one point he had like 5 hit songs in one month with three bands!

Great song with a grooving harpsichord and a lilting melody to back it up!

[keith490783]

Agree 100% love this period of pop music, fun lyrics

[MetTechII]

It was the golden age of pop.

[primogennaio]

A bouncy, lively song, typical 1960s. Unfortunately it gets little airplay these days. It ought to be played early in the morning, afternoon, evening...

[mdog2700]

*** ! *** GREAT POST *** ! ***

[stresslie58]

Great song. I got a good laugh when I played this at work at 5 in the morning and

Some grump yelled out WTF are you listening to??!!

[katylied48]

great to be alive song

[vinylsingleman]

I don't know why we don't hear this great one on the radio more. Some years ago I remember one jockey mistakenly saying that "Hitchin' A Ride" was their only hit, and many still don't know that was not so. Thanks for posting.

[cedricthecentaur]

I prefer this one actually, though I don't mind "Hitchin' A Ride". I heard this on the radio the other day for the first time in ages.

[jsbach15]

My favorite song from Vanity Fare; I wore the 45 out! WONDERFUL! 10+ stars.

[PCMusic75]

Covered in French by Claude François (the one who sung "My Way" the first). I like Vanity Fare better. I knew this song when it peaked at #8 in the TOTP.

[mrdee11091]

thanks fpr the post this chirpy pick me uip number dont half bring the memorys flodding back thanks for the post

[john6172]

What great Memories Of This Song. How I would Love to Be High Again....

[bertielemmings]

As good or better than HITCHIN' A RIDE...a real, hidden treasure!