Morning Of The Earth (Open Your Heart - G.Wayne Thomas)

[mediate27]

Where's the Rick Price version that played in December Boys?

[ThePaganElf]

I love this song, I love how G Wayne Thomas is so like the Late Great harry Chapin, A wondeful story telly, almost a poet, with such a melodic voice. Thankyou for posting........Just beautiful

[MrHaroldthefrog]

anyone know where i can find the december boys version of this?

[mediate27]

@MrHaroldthefrog I've been looking for it for four years. I had it on Myspace for awhile and then it seemed to disappear off the face of the planet.

[andrewsspace]

I lived thru this stuff - I miss it terribly, life was so much simpler then so long as you had a board, a chick and a panel van!!! Can't wait for the 2012 Morning of the Earth Concerts in 2012.

[MyAruga]

mp

[MyAruga]

MP legend king kirra .

[TheoryMan27]

Amazing stuff!

[shorebreak69]

any chance of uploading another track from tthis album ? the one that goes,,,' you can tell them I'm living in the islands ,,,,somewhere, where the day is always bright,,etc,etc,,, you know the one.. I bought the dvd on my last trip to bali but gave it to a young local grom so he could see what his home town looked like 30 years ago,,

[maddyfoster04]

LOVE IT..!!!!

[dimethaltryptamine1]

Ive loved this song my whole life

[silverlight00]

Fantastic to come across a video on You Tube with no Haters! Share the love bro's XXXXX

[silverlight00]

Wow thank you soooo much for this....brought back so many memories of surfing The Island (Phillip Island) and The West Coast (Bells Beach and Winke) When I was only about 16. What a special album it was and movie Morning of the Earth. Summer days warm and sweet and the surf culture was all about love connection and spirit.

[BrianFStevenson]

So great to hear this song again, takes me back to simpler, happy times with simple messages - what the heck happened?

[silverlight00]

@BrianFStevenson We have to show them how it done thats all, an open heart is all it takes.

Live & light is all it takes x

[MyAruga]

MP KING KIRRA THE GRRRR BACK.

[JIMMIESURFS]

This is mighty fine, indeed! Sweet tune, nice mix of surfing too. Thanks for sharing.Peace and love to all my brothers and sisters everywhere.

[MyAruga]

the king kirra MP RED BoArD ShorTs

[cheekygirl1972]

good song, thanks for sharing.

[dionysosramon]

beautifull video

[anitashelby]

Such A Great Share & Post!!!! Thankyou Ian...Anita..:)

[jolien58]

Wonderful video and song.

[seaeagles64]

Thanks Lampo... your a true brother. love to you and your family from tassie. xx

[LampoCastor]

@seaeagles64

Thanks for that! Best wishes to you and yours as well!

[5Fathom5]

Cool song, was just a grommet when this movie came out and it has inspired me to make surf films and shoot for TV broadcast of surfing events.....thanks is not enough, I owe you old guys a lot.

[melcantgetausername]

love love love this song!

[anniannipompom]

I love this song,it's awesome...I have always loved it :)...Toni (Dubbo,N.S.W)

[chitchant]

Go Scabs!

[retrogirl6661]

love it luv it LOVE IT - remember it from when I was a little tacker xo thanks heaps

Jen (scarborough Western Australia)

[june2581]

Just love this song and has been so long since I heard it. Thanks for posting this,

June2581

[guavaflower1]

O God. the feeling of surfing over water is like no other!

[kedosimage]

Scarb. Mate the real surfies always hung out at east corrimal, the most likely beach a tidal wave will first hit the gong LOL

[123strotz]

I'm a 45 yr old westie who has never surfed & burns in the sun but I do love this song. Thanks for putting it out there.

[ParArdua]

There's some old saying that "Youth is wasted on the young".

It is so true, and it's a sadness for me that l just took for granted all the great and easy times at Scarb Bch in the 70s.

There's no formula for happiness, that's guaranteed to work

It all depends on how you treat your friends

And how much you've been hurt

But it's a start, when you open up your heart

And try not to hide, what you feel inside

Just open up your heart.

[retrogirl6661]

@ParArdua U are soooo right!! xoxo

[acoyrazorback]

You don't have to be a surfer to appreciate the beauty of this song and the ocean. I grew up in FN Qld no surf there team ...big reef in the way. Have loved this song since the first day I heard it in 1974 I was 10 and it affects me the same way today I feel such peace.

[OhWhenTheSaints]

ON THOMAS' HEAD!!!!

[thefutureisvegan]

Great surfing. Great music. Great days. We should have kept it simple like this, friends. What a much better gift it would have been for our children than the crap they have now.

[barnfresh60]

manly beach at this time was a great spot and not crowed with only a few hambuger shop,s you know the real aussie food takeawy,the beach was great and some real grouse waves at times,beat up old holdens we had, easy parking, no dram,as at all, chicks everywhere man, they were so unpretentious as well, real babes,miss it all, miss my manly beach and everything life dished up for us young beach goer,s,the 60s, were even just as good or better,this song did it for us as well,fk getting old YEEKS!

[MrJMontrose]

@barnfresh60 - i hear you. I'm 53 next month. Manly is a second home to me. Live in the subs now, wife, kids...I remember those days. Baddy Treloar (Native surboards out of his Dad'd shop Northside Stor-a-board), Twizzle, Bobby Mills. Just a great place. I drop in there occassionally and despite the changes i still feel that same essence of the place. Surfing the Bower...so much time has passed so quickly. To be honest sometimes I've never felt so lost. Good luck to you.

[PeadophileBeard]

@barnfresh60 Cool man. :) Any more stories I love hearing about back in the day. I will read anything. peace.

[ALLscaledUP]

yeah I remember. i was 15yrs old. (i'm over 50 now) I was .just a gromett;;then however you spell that word. I surfed Gibson Step once with Wayne Lynch . I just happened to be there when he was that day...it was perfect at 6ft. Great day I will always remember it.

[tanktaxi]

I love this song. Thank you so for posting it. I'm sure others will enjoy.

[kidblacks]

Unbelievable symmetry of film, music and surfing.

[pixieedick]

just saw morning of the earth with live music in manly, sydney nsw ... wasn't life great?!! and isn't it still!!? xc:

[pdwalbran]

Is this the BEST Australian song ever??? Very possibly.

[dnarej]

oh man oh man oh man, what can I say...

[LucasHunter13]

man this was surfing!

[mozdickson]

beautiful in every respect, right down to MP's right hand keeping time down the line. THANKS HEAPS!

[kaluoliveira]

the best surf movie ever!! i am from cape verde island -west africa ,yes we surf in africa and we love morning of the earth!!good wave to all

[ilovebaliorg]

RIP Kim "Fly" Bradley

[YaMumIsLoose]

love it!

[hoipolloifilms]

Amongst the best.

[eldondor888]

As a teenager in the 70s and nearing 50 today there is nothing ephemeral about this song. Love it even more today than I did all those years ago.

[1AussieAvenger1]

OMG !! how good is this? near 40 years on!! max respect to G. Wayne Thomas and all associated. thanks to LampoCastor for the posting too

this song is one of "4", from this album, yes vinyl (weeeeeeeee), in my TOP 50 BEST SONGS OF ALL TIME !!the album also rates extremely high in my TOP 50 BEST ABLUMS OF ALL TIME

if only people did what this song says maybe the world will be ok after all.. but there's no formular for happiness thats guarantee to work..the world needs to hear this.

[joe306tow]

Thanks for the confirmation e-mail. The e-mail is back on my facebook page. All of my friends enjoy this video.

My adopted son josh is a California Native surfer and think the video tight.

Josh Sherman wrote

at 2:12am on October 26th, 2008

yeah dude that was tight man thanx!

[LampoCastor]

Great news! Glad I could help :)

[joe306tow]

We had e-mails back and forth about posting this video. And now Facebook has pulled the video saying that I did not have your permission to post your video.

I remember asking, and you saying that you thought it was cool that a new generation of young adults liked your video.

[singleporter]

Any chance of someone uploading the Bali clip which features the old Kiwi band "Ticket" with the track "Dream Chant"?

You know the one...

More a case of preserving the track and having it available, it's extremely rare to find. I have the film but aren't savvy enough to clip it into youtube.

[seaeagles64]

Sick song...Sick footage. SICK !!!!!

[gavin10000]

I don't s'pose you could put up Bali Waters too??? Please? I have the 12" and the movie but I'd love a music clip. In any case thanks for this - it's terrific.

[fallingofone]

G.Wayne Thomas website up and running, the usual stuff up front with the dots followed by gwaynethomas and dont forget the com!

rock on :)

[LampoCastor]

I've just updated the info for this vid. BJStar66 let me know that there is a new G. Wayne Thomas website, so there is a link to the site in the video info. Well worth a look!

[cathari5]

@LampoCastor its great to have seen this on tube , this is possibly the greatest movie/soundtrack ever made and is without a doubt a masterpiece of art both visually and audibly , perfection , this movie was screened for the very first time at my parents home at Elanora Hights ,behind Narrabeen , Sydney . by Alby Falzon an Bob Evans and others , before it even hit the cinema`s , i was ahh 7,8 years , can remember seeing a gathering of 20 or 30 , the elite of Australian surfing ,

[LampoCastor]

@cathari5

Wow, that must have been something! I was living in Geelong when the movie was released, aged 13, and everyone piled on down to The Pix in Geelong West to see it.

Fantastic music, fantastic visuals, a real masterpiece, once seen never forgotten, it just becomes a wonderful part of existence. Best wishes to you! :)

[oztoob]

This was a track on the first compilation album I ever bought in the 70"s. It was called "20 Happening Hits" Memories come flooding back. Great times.

[inxs52]

ditto

[beans1979]

ive searched for this a long time stoked

[LampoCastor]

I seem to remember someone asking about this song on some other youtube 'morning of the earth' vids which is why I put it up. :)

It's just such a great song and performance, in fact the whole movie and soundtrack is just sublime.

Glad you found it!

[Bronteboy67]

Has anyone got the original clip to the song,and can they post it.Its as rare as rockinghorse shit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[BJStar66]

I asked G. Wayne Thomas about this. He is unaware that there was an original clip to this song. The only clip is from the movie itself. I guess he would know. Interested in knowing what clip you are referring to though. Remember Tamam Shud did remake version of this song a few years later, so maybe a clip went with that? If there was a clip, it wasn't G. Wayne Thomas though.

[BJStar66]

Even though I'd asked Wayne about the clip you are asking about and he said there was none, I have to say I think you are RIGHT.I watched the MOTE Special on TV today and there is black&white footage of Wayne on the beach and climbing rocks etc.I wonder. . . .

I'm going to ask Wayne about that tomorrow and then GO HUNT IT DOWN - for me AND for you!

[Bronteboy67]

I told you.I remember watching A B/W clip on T.V. I swear it was this song.I think there was a part where someone holding a board is on the beach looking at the waves.

It would be good if you find it!!!

[BJStar66]

Letting everyone know that the Sydney MOTE Production at the State Theatre for Sept 27 is SOLD OUT! Not to worry as another show is being put on and tickets for that show will go on sale on AUGUST 4TH! So if you missed out on the first night, you get a chance to see the second show.

[GibbRaymond]

i rememberd when it first came out in the 70/s it was so fare out

[BJStar66]

Let us not forget the Morning of the Earth stage show Production at Sydney's State Theatre Sept 27th 2008!

[fallingofone]

this will be fantastic

[0soulshine0]

I love this song.

Morning of the earth is touring.

G Wayne Thomas is playing along with Brian Cadd, October 3rd thier in Melbourne, AUS.

COULDNT BE HAPPIER :o)

[SrGoldenHair]

Loved this song then when I was growing up...and still love it now !!!

Some things never change.

Thank you so much for posting.

[addebubba]

I cant find this song anywhere your like the only one on youtube that have put it out but it is the wwrong version :/

[BJStar66]

I asked G. Wayne Thomas about there being two versions of this song? He said that THIS is his original and ONLY version of "Open up your Heart". He said that you may be confused with a version that Tamam Shud did of it years later.

[BJStar66]

Yes, and this song just MOVES you on the inside to a really warm place. The combination of his delicious voice, his song (obviously), the lyrics and his incredible talent for musical arrangements, makes this song 'drip with quality' like you said.

What makes this song even more special, is that it was written in 15mins. Now THAT'S what I call a Genius, and that's why he is my Music Hero. G. Wayne Thomas is AWESOME!

[sz4wp]

This drips with quality One of my all time favourites.

G.whayne hit the motherlode when he wrote this

[murf69]

gots to love soulllll surfing

not to mention G.Wayne Thomas

[meldunks1974]

G Wayne Thomas is AWESOME! His songs rock!!!!

[rustybarnicle]

I've always loved this song, loved the film, and yeah, you are right about the surfing. Those guys enjoyed the waves, they just didn't 'use them' to show off slick moves

[supertonesurf]

love the single fin action no bunny hops, thank god!