!968 had a spring and summer of good music, and this was one of those really good songs, along with "Hurdy Gurdy Man", "Grazing In The Grass", "Classical Gas", an yes, even "MacArthur Park".
I remember hearing this song on my transistor radio late one evening on my way home from work as a janitor in the Student Union building when I was in college. It was the night of the riots after Nixon mined Hiaphong Harbor. The incongruity of this lovely song with students and hippies rioting struck me then and is something that has stayed with me for a lifetime.
I first saw Merilee in about 1961 or 1962, when I was into the scene and drumming with a local rock band. Her group then was Merilee and Her Men. Still had her maiden name at the time, which I believe was Merilee Gunst. The Turnabouts came some time after that. Somewhere in between she was fronting for another Seattle group, the Statics. She had one or two local hit records with the Statics, if I remember correctly.
I love this song. I know this was not the original version, but it my opinion it is the best version. The sparse accompaniment and Merilee's unique voice make this voice a classic for me. It is hard to believe that Jon Voight's brother (a.k.a. Chip Taylor) wrote this song! Does anyone know where this version was recorded?
Thanks for clearing that up. I always thought that this version of Angel was recorded at Sam Phillip's legendary Sun Studio in Memphis. When I saw that the record was from the UK, I thought that this might not be correct. Thanks again for clearing that up.
OMG. I am now 61. I still have the 45. This song is so reminiscent of my first love in high school. Along with "Evening in Paris" perfume. So beautifully innocent.
I had no clue the woman behind this song was so dumb strikingly beautiful. Granted 1968 had its rise and fall more than a decade before I was born, but I heard this song often enough growing up. I just never pictured the woman singing it looked like that. Now I wonder if Blondie and those women from ABBA were attractive.
I understood that links are only a problem if they're clickable or contain dots or contain the "h t t p slash" or "w w w slash" prefixes.YouTube throws up an Error message if you attempt to do this. Apparently, a lot of spam can be sent this way.
But I think removing "w w w slash " and "h t t p slash " and surrounding the dots with brackets [.] is OK. I may have forgotten to do this with the one I sent to you. Sorry about that.
@folkmusicgirl : When I lived in the Seattle area just a few years ago Merilee was still living in the area and performing this song. She was very young back in 68 when she recorded it.
Thanks for your reply. I remember singing along to this song whenever I heard it on the radio (in private of course), ha, ha. I really liked the cover of this album; such a nice photo of Merilee.
I have read that this song was recorded at the old American Recording Studios in Memphis and produced by Chips Moman. Also, the record used many of the same musicians that played on Elvis Presley's sessions.
@willibill1 Are you saying you saw Marrilee in concert way back when? I thought she had an outstanding singing voice, and style, but I had no idea about anything about her. If it were not for the internet, I might have gone not just YEARS, but my whole life without ever being able to put a face to the voice! So, a BIG thanks to the person who posted this..
Why yes, I'd have to say that most assuredly the instrument at the beginning of this number could be no other than....THE FRENCH HORN! My son used to play one in the high school band. What a lovely, soft sounding, comforting instrument it is!
The instrument in the opening sounds like a trombone or a baritone. Both brass by the way. It's been a lonnnnnng time since I did the school band thing.
I hungout with merrilee yesturday cuz she had a party and parents are friends with her, know eachother through music. She performed this song and everyone was singing along. It was awesome! She's so nice and down to earth
This is an amazingly poignant song, and beautifully sung. It portrays, in a voice made husky by cigarettes and faded lust, the desolation of a morning after; still lonely, and feeling cheated by the ephemeral nature of any-port-in-a-storm sexual bonding, she must now grasp at any hint of her humanity having been seen - "Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby..."
I love this song more than I used to. They have been playing it on a new HD radio channel. I like the Merrilee Rush version much better than the Juice Newton one. It's a very sensitive song and sung with loving care. Beautiful!
simply a one nite stand, & she picked him up! she says she feels guilty, but ,when all she wants to be is called angel in the morning... id be at a clinic,, fast!
@tommieparch I don't think so. Your interpretation is just plain silly. It is not about a casual pick up , just so you know. It's more likely about a one-sided love, and the singer being willing to risk censure by having premarital sex to prove her feelings for some guy. Who could be married or with someone else. The kind of clinic you would be at ... a psych clinic, ha ha!
Respond to this video...I tried to post a thanks for this youtube, but now I am suppose to play those silly word games...type the image in the box in another box...etc.etc.etc. ? I don't think so. Especially when you type it right, but the dumb program thinks not! Who makes those lame thing up anyway? People with precious little to do.
@fancifulfilly your original comment has nothin to do with the song! your preposition is for the word OF..the clinic im talkin bout is a v.d. clinic! she dont even know the guy,, shes a slut!.. ive met girls like this & ive woke up sayin..WHAT THE HELL DID I DO LAST NITE!.....Tommy
@tommieparch No, Tommy, that is ALL WRONG! First of all, this song was not even written by a woman, but a young man (young at the time), Chip Taylor, AKA James Voight. He is trying to see this through a woman's eyes.
Secondly, no woman deserves to be called a "slut" for sleeping with a man she likes or wants, just because he cannot or will not return her affections. if she was s willing to gamble with his respect for her , it was out of her feelings for him.
@fancifulfilly read your comments again & I still dont hear anything that says she knows him..Shes lonely & thinks sex may help with a stranger(shes not a slut tho ). when she talks about him leavin before he can realy see her in the dawn(well). he never even seen her in the light ..he dont know her...(seems you had a few one nite stands that you felt sick about in the morning?). we all did., ive been in the music biz 30yrs & I know this song was written for Connie Stevens & turned down .Tommy
@tommieparch Tommy, that's fine that your interpretation of the song and mine differ; there is nothing that proves the character in the song knows this person she is saying these things to, but I maintain that there is nothing to prove she does not either. UNlike "Strangers in the Night", which leaves no room for interpretation, this song does. Maybe I need to have some one-night stands to see things this way!! But just FYI, when I was single, I never was into dispensing "mercy sex".
@fancifulfilly good point!, but i gottcha to change your view a bit.., so were kinda on the same page ?.. you need one nite stands! i dont think so..... are you sayin you were an angel of the morning? we been talkin bout this song for 3 weeks & the proof is startin to lean my way... i like your comments or i wouldnt reply tho..send me a personal message so i know your gender if we keep talkin bout this song ,.Tommy...(your name too).
@tommieparch Also, as I mentioned, the girl in the song DOES TOO know him. She says "if my love cannot bind your HEART", not his "pecker". She not only knows him, she believes she is in LOVE with him, even if she doubts he reciprocates her affection. Hope might spring eternal, and all that, but she hopes by taking him to "heaven" at night, in the morning he will feel the same way. Men do the same thing with women they want, FYI. And, they act just as overly-optimistic.
@tommieparch Got to disagree with you but you won't back down. I don't see this as a one shot. I hear young love & the need for it. They know each other. You have no romance in your soul(if your comments here are representative). I am a lyrics freak & always look for interpretation but I have to ask. If you turn off your brain and listen to this song what feelings are generated. Let the poetry do it's work. I am guessing U won't get it. Why have so many people sang this song. Why has it charted?
@skygh why did (Biily dont be a hero ) chart & hit no1 here by Bo Donaldson & in the uk no1 at the same time by paper lace in 73? . writing lyrics is not science & some of the biggest hits are not poetic....but then again i have no romance in my soul & i dont get IT..., but you do , right.. most of the best music ever made never charted...
@tommieparch It pains me to admit UR right about songs charting and good songs not. Clearly wrong! Can't forget about marketing. Let me stick with why have so many singers done this song? I fear U R jaded on this and like I said U won't back down nor will you give it a 2nd listen, am I wrong? Is it bad I get this song? I have studied the poetic side of lyrics for years. Paul Simon is a genius at hiding meaning. C. Taylor paints pictures with words. But if U need to win U can. I loose. Uncle.
the flipside of this song by her on a 45, reap what you sow is great, she does a great job on that song too, I love this song, love it in the 60's and I still listen to it.
@505Wizard Thanks. Are you sure it is a French Horn and not a trombone? Could you please tell me the difference? Three viewers advised me previously that it is the sound of a trombone.
Me asking is just for the sake of curiosity as I have very little knowledge of these instruments. Thanks
Merrilee sang the 2 ending words ( i.e. "heart" and "start") of the first 2 lines in a very low tone. These perfectly matched with the low tone of the trombone used in the introduction. The most suitable musical instrument used. I like it. I think only low tone can show that it is in the morning.
P.S. Juice Newton sang these 2 endings words in a higher tone. But I like Merrilee's version more in this respect.
@BeerHunter125 Thanks. It should be a trombone. I listened to some trombone sounds in other youtube clips. They are the same. I have some more to say later on using this instruments as introduction.
@MickileungHK I hear a trumpet and then a guitar. Then a reeded instrument joins and that's where it all opens up as there are several reeded things that it could be!
@steadfastcoward Thanks, However, you can see that one viewer advised that it is a French Horn. I am puzzled now. Anyway the sound is good, good, good!!
@MickileungHK I did play both in high school band, although I was taught to put my hand in the horn and it was mellower that way...you can get quite a growl from it.
My trombone was valved. Most assume a Dixieland slide but Tommy Dorsey played his more like a valved instrument as well.
Chicago favored this sound as well. Either instrument could make such a sound and do it well.
I will just listen. It's still one of the best songs of the 1960s, period.
@MickileungHK I think it is a baritone. You can find solos here on 'the tube' to see if you agree. I have always like the sound of it. There are a few other horns that can sound similar but I bet it is a baritone. I am a huge fan of the guy that wrote this song, Chip Taylor who oddly also wrote Wild Thing and many other song and preforms his own music too. Carrie Rodriguez and he just put out an album that I am currently stuck on. More country sounding.
I first heard this song in1968 with my girl friend in Portland . This was our song for over 38 years of marriage untill she died in 2007. I;ve heard a few others sing it but Merrilee Rush sang it in person to us that night at the Cystal Ballroom.
Merrilee Rush (January 26, 1944 in Seattle, Washington) is an American singer, best known for her recording of the song "Angel of the Morning", a Top 10 song which earned her a Grammy nomination for Female Vocalist Of The Year in 1968.
this is the best version i remember when it came out, also FYI, Connie Francis was offered this song first and she turned it down, saying her fans wouldn't like her singing about leaving a mans hotel room
I agree that the Merrilee Rush version captures 'the essence' of the song's message, with the appropriate affect. This could be described as a 'Chick Song' that guys can also appreciate. While this tune is easily 'enjoyed' for its own sake, it would be a shame to miss the rather profound (and truthful) message it conveys; namely, so-called 'free love' has a price tag..
This song takes me back to when I was a kid.....the age of being innocent to the harsh reality of the world of the world we face today. This version bridges that
gap and is a beautiful feel good song that will live on for the ages.....well after
THANKS for posting this song. . . I was just a kid when this was first out and I remember being at Tommy's house (my neighbor friend) and watching Merv Griffin when Merrilee Rush came on and I never forgot that moment in time for some reason. .. LOVE THIS SONG and the great music back then. . I wish we could go back!
wow this brings back memories for me.... I was on a ferris wheel in Gatlinburgh, Tennessee when this came on over the sound system. My sister who was 10 years older told me it was a dirty song about 'something'. I never forgot and still I knew it was a great song and a great performance. Better than anyone else who's covered it since.
@Bluejaysforevs My grandfather died in 1968 On the drive to his funeral from Atlanta where I lived as a 10-year-old boy to Bethlehem, Pa. where he lived this was on the radio over and over again,
When I hear this song, I always think also of Sandy Posey's, A Single Girl. Perhaps they charted around the same time & they are forever bracketed together in my memory.
I met Merrilee back in the 90's at a dog show in the park in L.A. I also remember going into Big Daddy's in Santa Monica just to dance and she and her band were there playing this song. This was in the 70's.
I was cursing down Interstate 5 near Seattle Washington in a new 1968 Camaro when I first heard this song. This was playing on the radio when America was still innocent, before terrorists and Museums targeted America and before we had a black nut community organizer in the Whitehouse. Now it’s going to take more then an Angel to save America.
@flashbell Innocent? You mean, when politicians and civil rights leaders were being assassinated innocent? You mean, when police dogs were being used against black men in suits and ties holding signs saying "I am a man" innocent? You mean when we were fighting a dirty little war in Vietnam that killed a million Vietnamese and still kills due to Agent Orange innocent? When was this innocent time you're talking about?
@badtux , Hey bud! America doesn't start wars. America eliminates dictators and liberates countries. Why di you only mention Vietnamese people killed and where are you from?
@flashbell Oh yes, I supposed piles and piles of dead people ARE "liberated". Of course, probably not a liberation they welcome, but WTF, they're merely unseemly BROWN people so what does their opinion matter? I notice you didn't comment on the racial violence against blacks in the 1950's and 1960's that I mention. Tells me what you think "innocence" means -- means good times for WHITE people for you, yeppers!
No one, but no one ever should have covered or re-recorded this. I know that is unreasonable, but not only was this the hit version, to me it's the only version. I wore out 2 copies of this one back in 1968, along with "Morning Dew" by Lulu.
I don't know where she is but I imagine shes still kicking right around here somewhere close by. North Seattle when I went to school with her f**ked up, as*holistic son Mike Rush. That rotten b**tard ripped me off colder than s**t. But I did meet the beautiful Merrilee and there is no doubt that the apple fell REAL far from the tree. SHE was beautiful in every aspect of the word.
I will NEVER forget this song. I loved it to begin with and I still do, but this song came on my radio alarm clock when I was 15... I woke up to my walls, ceiling and bed on fire! This song was my "Angel in the Morning". That was 42 years ago!
One of my favorite songs, takes me right back to that time when I used to listen to this over and over on my 45 records. Merrilee sings it the best. Just beautiful.
Beautiful lady beautiful song!
grapewater123 1 week ago
i saw Merilee perform this song live in the early 70's
bfscown55 1 week ago
Thank you, again, for posting another most wonderful song!
mjpsails 2 weeks ago
You're very welcome, mjpsails-san!!
Otaku3 (*^o^)/
60otaku3 2 weeks ago
!968 had a spring and summer of good music, and this was one of those really good songs, along with "Hurdy Gurdy Man", "Grazing In The Grass", "Classical Gas", an yes, even "MacArthur Park".
nixjag1 3 weeks ago
I met her in Madison WI very nice person.
computersshot 1 month ago
I remember hearing this song on my transistor radio late one evening on my way home from work as a janitor in the Student Union building when I was in college. It was the night of the riots after Nixon mined Hiaphong Harbor. The incongruity of this lovely song with students and hippies rioting struck me then and is something that has stayed with me for a lifetime.
HickysBoy 1 month ago 3
Saw her sing this in 1968 at a club in Spokane. Beautiful.
sehc100 1 month ago
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sehc100 1 month ago
i remember merilee and the turnaboouts at the Lake Hills Roller Rink in the 60's in bellevue Wa...
73seabee 1 month ago
@73seabee
I first saw Merilee in about 1961 or 1962, when I was into the scene and drumming with a local rock band. Her group then was Merilee and Her Men. Still had her maiden name at the time, which I believe was Merilee Gunst. The Turnabouts came some time after that. Somewhere in between she was fronting for another Seattle group, the Statics. She had one or two local hit records with the Statics, if I remember correctly.
roadtripper10 3 weeks ago
This is one of the best songs I have ever heard..I love it..could listen to it over and over !!!!!!
MsAngieca 1 month ago
This is my favorite version with Juice Newton 2nd. I think it depends on which music you like best. brass or strings.
LesHarcle 1 month ago
a good song love it.
wgilbert3 1 month ago
I love Juice Newton also, huge fan but I think this is the best version of this song by far.
tuneaddicted 1 month ago
Excellent song, her very best. Thanks for posting it.
TheTexastransplant 2 months ago
You're welcome, TheTexastransplant-san!!
Otaku3 (*^_^)v
60otaku3 2 months ago
I love this song. I know this was not the original version, but it my opinion it is the best version. The sparse accompaniment and Merilee's unique voice make this voice a classic for me. It is hard to believe that Jon Voight's brother (a.k.a. Chip Taylor) wrote this song! Does anyone know where this version was recorded?
littleSam4 2 months ago
This version was recorded in Memphis, Tennessee, in early 1968.
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60otaku3 2 months ago
@60otaku3
Thanks for clearing that up. I always thought that this version of Angel was recorded at Sam Phillip's legendary Sun Studio in Memphis. When I saw that the record was from the UK, I thought that this might not be correct. Thanks again for clearing that up.
littleSam4 2 months ago
You're welcome, littleSam4-san!!
Otaku3 (*^_^)/
60otaku3 2 months ago
@littleSam4 in my pants
emaclynch 3 weeks ago
Wow, that woman is gorgeous.
tootall1999 2 months ago
OMG. I am now 61. I still have the 45. This song is so reminiscent of my first love in high school. Along with "Evening in Paris" perfume. So beautifully innocent.
chach2000 2 months ago 5
I had no clue the woman behind this song was so dumb strikingly beautiful. Granted 1968 had its rise and fall more than a decade before I was born, but I heard this song often enough growing up. I just never pictured the woman singing it looked like that. Now I wonder if Blondie and those women from ABBA were attractive.
mrdeansden 2 months ago
@mrdeansden These women of the 60's were ALL this beautiful, hippie-fied and gorgeous.
chach2000 2 months ago
BlakesLiberator-san,
I am glad for your kind comment.
But I had to delete it unavoidably because a specific link was included in your comment.
I really feel bad about it...
60otaku3
60otaku3 2 months ago
@60otaku3 Thanks for letting me know.
I understood that links are only a problem if they're clickable or contain dots or contain the "h t t p slash" or "w w w slash" prefixes.YouTube throws up an Error message if you attempt to do this. Apparently, a lot of spam can be sent this way.
But I think removing "w w w slash " and "h t t p slash " and surrounding the dots with brackets [.] is OK. I may have forgotten to do this with the one I sent to you. Sorry about that.
BlakesLiberator 2 months ago
Damn this is pretty. A lot of people argue passionately that this is the best version of this iconic song, they have a VERY powerful argument !
Contakum 2 months ago 2
Merilee Rush has a beautiful, expressive voice - I remember this great song and wonder what she is doing now? No one can sing it like her!
folkmusicgirl 2 months ago
@folkmusicgirl : When I lived in the Seattle area just a few years ago Merilee was still living in the area and performing this song. She was very young back in 68 when she recorded it.
ronjm23 2 months ago
@ronjm23
Hi:
Thanks for your reply. I remember singing along to this song whenever I heard it on the radio (in private of course), ha, ha. I really liked the cover of this album; such a nice photo of Merilee.
folkmusicgirl 2 months ago
"and the turnabouts"...love it!
phyllyg72 2 months ago
1968..hanging at the tracks... the nights lasted forever.....
727chitown 3 months ago 2
I have read that this song was recorded at the old American Recording Studios in Memphis and produced by Chips Moman. Also, the record used many of the same musicians that played on Elvis Presley's sessions.
MrJayBBluejay 3 months ago
She was hot
stevefreakinawesome 3 months ago
Great version. But is the gal the love child of Liza and Frances De La Tour, or what?! :)
lillybruce 3 months ago
Great "parking" song. Ah, the memories...
EdWatts 3 months ago
I owned this record album & played the grooves out of it. The entire album was excellent. Thank you for posting. Peace ALL.
mjcamck 3 months ago 2
You're welcome, mjcamck-san!!
Otaku3 (*^_^)/
60otaku3 3 months ago
@60otaku3 finally yes this is the best version!
101HippyGirl 3 months ago
Ooooo yaaa, Merrilee was one hot mama back in the day, I was in love with here!
willibill1 3 months ago
@willibill1 Are you saying you saw Marrilee in concert way back when? I thought she had an outstanding singing voice, and style, but I had no idea about anything about her. If it were not for the internet, I might have gone not just YEARS, but my whole life without ever being able to put a face to the voice! So, a BIG thanks to the person who posted this..
fancifulfilly 3 months ago
this was my first favorite song as a kid. I looked at the year it was released. wow, I was 4 yrs old.
416mcp 3 months ago
the best version of this song..powerful, adult, moving..
gatorbait51 3 months ago
pretty girl
nokie978 3 months ago
Im 27 and I love the oldies. I never realized that this was the original song thought Juice Newton was the original. But I love this version!!!!!!!!
travelplus1 3 months ago
Born in "58," a child of the 60s and 70s, a pretty tune from then and there--a much simpler and beautiful time.
jerseyrockboy 3 months ago
Merrilee sooo gorgeous
poortogee77 4 months ago
I still love Merrilee Rush's, the original singer, version. Great!
mcdgary 4 months ago in playlist CollegeUGA
This is my favorite version of this song. I love Juice Newtons version but I heard this one first and I love that better. So glad it is on here
Chuckles123thefish 4 months ago 11
Thank you for the comment, Chuckles123thefish-san!!
Otaku3 (*^_^)v
60otaku3 4 months ago
@60otaku3 This is my fave, too. Juice did a good job, but Merilee was first.
smj4535 4 months ago
@Chuckles123thefish absolutely!!
pwwatson8888 3 months ago
@Chuckles123thefish Juice Newton has a good voice, but Merilee Rush nailed this song like no one else. First. Last. Period. End of story.
ModGirl1967 2 months ago
Thanks for the posting have not heard is song in long time, local radio stations don't seem to play it much.wonderful song by a very talented singer
robertk6ha 4 months ago
You're welcome, robertk6ha-san!!
Otaku3 (*^o^)/
60otaku3 4 months ago
@robertk6ha They are only interested in playing trash of today like snoop dog and lady gaga
calihartley2010 3 months ago
I just saw Merrilee Rush on local TV - in Seattle. She's alive and well and breeding sheep dogs!
Soupwhistle 4 months ago
Why yes, I'd have to say that most assuredly the instrument at the beginning of this number could be no other than....THE FRENCH HORN! My son used to play one in the high school band. What a lovely, soft sounding, comforting instrument it is!
sibman77 5 months ago
this sing was first given to Connie Francis, and she turned it down, this was one of my favorites songs growing up in south philly
joeyjosephs 5 months ago
my top ten favorite oldies! the arrangement is awesome so is her voice!
michpackfan 6 months ago
sounds like a french horn!
michpackfan 6 months ago
Sounds like a baritone but it could be layered with a basson at 0:17 and a cello at 0:30
fosbury68 6 months ago
The instrument in the opening sounds like a trombone or a baritone. Both brass by the way. It's been a lonnnnnng time since I did the school band thing.
jaygensn 6 months ago
This is still my favorite version
staff50ord 6 months ago
I hungout with merrilee yesturday cuz she had a party and parents are friends with her, know eachother through music. She performed this song and everyone was singing along. It was awesome! She's so nice and down to earth
emtyson 6 months ago
Here's a little trivis this song was written by Angelina Jolie's uncle
coolsweetgroovy 6 months ago
@coolsweetgroovy Chip Taylor?????
jlilyroth12 5 months ago
@jlilyroth12 Yes Chip Taylor is Angelina Jolie's uncle I learned about that from my oldies station
coolsweetgroovy 5 months ago
Hermosa canción !!!!
MrRaider70 7 months ago
This is an amazingly poignant song, and beautifully sung. It portrays, in a voice made husky by cigarettes and faded lust, the desolation of a morning after; still lonely, and feeling cheated by the ephemeral nature of any-port-in-a-storm sexual bonding, she must now grasp at any hint of her humanity having been seen - "Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby..."
mftalbot234 7 months ago
I love this song more than I used to. They have been playing it on a new HD radio channel. I like the Merrilee Rush version much better than the Juice Newton one. It's a very sensitive song and sung with loving care. Beautiful!
koolhalo 7 months ago
This version and Juice Newton's version are very good.
Piccolo7126 7 months ago
simply a one nite stand, & she picked him up! she says she feels guilty, but ,when all she wants to be is called angel in the morning... id be at a clinic,, fast!
tommieparch 7 months ago 7
@tommieparch I don't think so. Your interpretation is just plain silly. It is not about a casual pick up , just so you know. It's more likely about a one-sided love, and the singer being willing to risk censure by having premarital sex to prove her feelings for some guy. Who could be married or with someone else. The kind of clinic you would be at ... a psych clinic, ha ha!
fancifulfilly 3 months ago
Respond to this video...I tried to post a thanks for this youtube, but now I am suppose to play those silly word games...type the image in the box in another box...etc.etc.etc. ? I don't think so. Especially when you type it right, but the dumb program thinks not! Who makes those lame thing up anyway? People with precious little to do.
fancifulfilly 3 months ago
@fancifulfilly your original comment has nothin to do with the song! your preposition is for the word OF..the clinic im talkin bout is a v.d. clinic! she dont even know the guy,, shes a slut!.. ive met girls like this & ive woke up sayin..WHAT THE HELL DID I DO LAST NITE!.....Tommy
tommieparch 3 months ago
@tommieparch No, Tommy, that is ALL WRONG! First of all, this song was not even written by a woman, but a young man (young at the time), Chip Taylor, AKA James Voight. He is trying to see this through a woman's eyes.
Secondly, no woman deserves to be called a "slut" for sleeping with a man she likes or wants, just because he cannot or will not return her affections. if she was s willing to gamble with his respect for her , it was out of her feelings for him.
fancifulfilly 3 months ago
@fancifulfilly read your comments again & I still dont hear anything that says she knows him..Shes lonely & thinks sex may help with a stranger(shes not a slut tho ). when she talks about him leavin before he can realy see her in the dawn(well). he never even seen her in the light ..he dont know her...(seems you had a few one nite stands that you felt sick about in the morning?). we all did., ive been in the music biz 30yrs & I know this song was written for Connie Stevens & turned down .Tommy
tommieparch 3 months ago
@tommieparch Tommy, that's fine that your interpretation of the song and mine differ; there is nothing that proves the character in the song knows this person she is saying these things to, but I maintain that there is nothing to prove she does not either. UNlike "Strangers in the Night", which leaves no room for interpretation, this song does. Maybe I need to have some one-night stands to see things this way!! But just FYI, when I was single, I never was into dispensing "mercy sex".
fancifulfilly 3 months ago
@fancifulfilly good point!, but i gottcha to change your view a bit.., so were kinda on the same page ?.. you need one nite stands! i dont think so..... are you sayin you were an angel of the morning? we been talkin bout this song for 3 weeks & the proof is startin to lean my way... i like your comments or i wouldnt reply tho..send me a personal message so i know your gender if we keep talkin bout this song ,.Tommy...(your name too).
tommieparch 3 months ago
@tommieparch Also, as I mentioned, the girl in the song DOES TOO know him. She says "if my love cannot bind your HEART", not his "pecker". She not only knows him, she believes she is in LOVE with him, even if she doubts he reciprocates her affection. Hope might spring eternal, and all that, but she hopes by taking him to "heaven" at night, in the morning he will feel the same way. Men do the same thing with women they want, FYI. And, they act just as overly-optimistic.
fancifulfilly 3 months ago
@tommieparch Got to disagree with you but you won't back down. I don't see this as a one shot. I hear young love & the need for it. They know each other. You have no romance in your soul(if your comments here are representative). I am a lyrics freak & always look for interpretation but I have to ask. If you turn off your brain and listen to this song what feelings are generated. Let the poetry do it's work. I am guessing U won't get it. Why have so many people sang this song. Why has it charted?
skygh 3 months ago
@skygh why did (Biily dont be a hero ) chart & hit no1 here by Bo Donaldson & in the uk no1 at the same time by paper lace in 73? . writing lyrics is not science & some of the biggest hits are not poetic....but then again i have no romance in my soul & i dont get IT..., but you do , right.. most of the best music ever made never charted...
tommieparch 3 months ago
@tommieparch It pains me to admit UR right about songs charting and good songs not. Clearly wrong! Can't forget about marketing. Let me stick with why have so many singers done this song? I fear U R jaded on this and like I said U won't back down nor will you give it a 2nd listen, am I wrong? Is it bad I get this song? I have studied the poetic side of lyrics for years. Paul Simon is a genius at hiding meaning. C. Taylor paints pictures with words. But if U need to win U can. I loose. Uncle.
skygh 3 months ago
@tommieparch i dunno...i'd be in a clinic faster if she wanted a C-note...
agapathos 3 months ago
It could be a trombone as they are lower than a french horn, but as the song progresses, the horn gets higher so, I think it is a French horn.
505Wizard 7 months ago
Saw her in concert in 67 or so. Great concert. What a great song and a great voice.
maledsm 7 months ago
the flipside of this song by her on a 45, reap what you sow is great, she does a great job on that song too, I love this song, love it in the 60's and I still listen to it.
richtoga 7 months ago
This is a beautiful song, the opening instrument is a French Horn.
505Wizard 7 months ago
@505Wizard Thanks. Are you sure it is a French Horn and not a trombone? Could you please tell me the difference? Three viewers advised me previously that it is the sound of a trombone.
Me asking is just for the sake of curiosity as I have very little knowledge of these instruments. Thanks
MickileungHK 7 months ago
omg my grandpa has this exact album... I play it all the time :) lovee it!
Thisisit0910 7 months ago
Merrilee sang the 2 ending words ( i.e. "heart" and "start") of the first 2 lines in a very low tone. These perfectly matched with the low tone of the trombone used in the introduction. The most suitable musical instrument used. I like it. I think only low tone can show that it is in the morning.
P.S. Juice Newton sang these 2 endings words in a higher tone. But I like Merrilee's version more in this respect.
MickileungHK 8 months ago
Hola: Magnifica cancion. Nunca pense encontrarla por aquí Gracias por compartirla bye MrVikingo.
MrVikingo84 8 months ago
De nada, MrVikingo84-san!!
Otaku3 (^o^)/
60otaku3 8 months ago
the flip side of this 45 was great Reap what you sow.
richtoga 8 months ago
Music as it was, and what it still should be like. I am so in love with the music of the 50's, 60's and 70's! The best eras that will never die :)
IamComfortablyNumb89 9 months ago
phenominal song, voice and arrangement.
misery1965 9 months ago
1.Merrilee Rush
2.Juice Newton
3.Chrissie Hynde
Beutiful female voices
websploited 9 months ago
When in Viet Nam heard this for almost 2 solid years eight minutes for that crappy Good Morning Viet Nam
dts3204 9 months ago
I especially like the introduction. Can any one tell me the name of the musical instrument in the introduction? So--- so doh---so la.........Thanks
MickileungHK 9 months ago
You're welcome, MickileungHK-san!!
Otaku3 (^o^)/
60otaku3 9 months ago
@MickileungHK If I didn't know better, and I don't, I'd say it's a trombone.
bobolihodgepin 9 months ago
@bobolihodgepin Thanks. It should be a trombone. I listened to some trombone sounds in other youtube clips. They are the same.
MickileungHK 8 months ago
@MickileungHK Sounds like a trombone to me.
BeerHunter125 9 months ago
@BeerHunter125 Thanks. It should be a trombone. I listened to some trombone sounds in other youtube clips. They are the same. I have some more to say later on using this instruments as introduction.
MickileungHK 8 months ago
@MickileungHK I hear a trumpet and then a guitar. Then a reeded instrument joins and that's where it all opens up as there are several reeded things that it could be!
Calotras 8 months ago
@MickileungHK It's a trombone to my ears
steadfastcoward 7 months ago
@steadfastcoward Thanks, However, you can see that one viewer advised that it is a French Horn. I am puzzled now. Anyway the sound is good, good, good!!
MickileungHK 7 months ago
@MickileungHK I did play both in high school band, although I was taught to put my hand in the horn and it was mellower that way...you can get quite a growl from it.
My trombone was valved. Most assume a Dixieland slide but Tommy Dorsey played his more like a valved instrument as well.
Chicago favored this sound as well. Either instrument could make such a sound and do it well.
I will just listen. It's still one of the best songs of the 1960s, period.
steadfastcoward 7 months ago
@steadfastcoward
Thank you very much!!
MickileungHK 7 months ago
@MickileungHK I see that you've ascertained that : )
steadfastcoward 7 months ago
@MickileungHK I think it is a baritone. You can find solos here on 'the tube' to see if you agree. I have always like the sound of it. There are a few other horns that can sound similar but I bet it is a baritone. I am a huge fan of the guy that wrote this song, Chip Taylor who oddly also wrote Wild Thing and many other song and preforms his own music too. Carrie Rodriguez and he just put out an album that I am currently stuck on. More country sounding.
skygh 7 months ago
@MickileungHK That's a trombone
javadude54 4 months ago
@javadude54 Thanks for your comment.
MickileungHK 4 months ago
@MickileungHK
I believe the instrument is a trombone (or possibly a bass trombone). :)
LilaBean05 4 months ago
@LilaBean05 Thanks also for your comment.
MickileungHK 4 months ago
I first heard this song in1968 with my girl friend in Portland . This was our song for over 38 years of marriage untill she died in 2007. I;ve heard a few others sing it but Merrilee Rush sang it in person to us that night at the Cystal Ballroom.
chris19491 9 months ago 10
@chris19491 A NIce Sentiment! Small wonder you have such a reverance for it!!
Nickcat5 9 months ago
@chris19491 Ooooh, how sad, but what a great story. Have always loved this song, this version, too.
fancifulfilly 3 months ago
sixnightsaweek,
Because your comment had nothing to do with this song, I deleted it.
60otaku3
60otaku3 9 months ago
Merrilee Rush (January 26, 1944 in Seattle, Washington) is an American singer, best known for her recording of the song "Angel of the Morning", a Top 10 song which earned her a Grammy nomination for Female Vocalist Of The Year in 1968.
smallstepswmp 9 months ago
this is the best version i remember when it came out, also FYI, Connie Francis was offered this song first and she turned it down, saying her fans wouldn't like her singing about leaving a mans hotel room
joeyjosephs 9 months ago
I agree that the Merrilee Rush version captures 'the essence' of the song's message, with the appropriate affect. This could be described as a 'Chick Song' that guys can also appreciate. While this tune is easily 'enjoyed' for its own sake, it would be a shame to miss the rather profound (and truthful) message it conveys; namely, so-called 'free love' has a price tag..
iotbs8 10 months ago
this is the original version ????
passau63 10 months ago
No, Evie Sands recorded the original version of this song in 1967.
Otaku3 (^_^)b
60otaku3 10 months ago
@60otaku3 thanks...
passau63 10 months ago
@60otaku3 good shit i researched on wikipedia its true
chriscaperz 9 months ago in playlist swifts shit
Still like Juice Newton better.
lefey36 10 months ago
This song takes me back to when I was a kid.....the age of being innocent to the harsh reality of the world of the world we face today. This version bridges that
gap and is a beautiful feel good song that will live on for the ages.....well after
I am gone. I play it often .
crop4321 10 months ago
I loved my first man to this song :) :) :)
LILJESUSBOI 10 months ago
I've been looking for this version for an hour now! Finally Found it!
Parrow 10 months ago
This song...is so beautiful. Nuff Said'...
InfurnusChaotix 10 months ago
THANKS for posting this song. . . I was just a kid when this was first out and I remember being at Tommy's house (my neighbor friend) and watching Merv Griffin when Merrilee Rush came on and I never forgot that moment in time for some reason. .. LOVE THIS SONG and the great music back then. . I wish we could go back!
DBmuscle 10 months ago 17
You're welcome, DBmuscle-san!!
Otaku3 (*^_^)/
60otaku3 10 months ago
@DBmuscle aww never wish ti go back.....good times still to come :)
susansmith44 9 months ago
Magnificent~Beautiful~Song~!~!~!~!~
Corrigan61 10 months ago
Sigh - This was playing on the radio the night I left Mark's house after he told me he loved me but could never bring me home to his parents
imjunipernow 10 months ago
@ Bluejaysforevs so sorry for ur loss x
susansmith44 10 months ago
Wow! This song brings back some wonderful memories! And wasn't Merrillee a hottie?
9615Chiefs 10 months ago
This song brings back memories of a very sad night.......
pllystad 11 months ago
wow this brings back memories for me.... I was on a ferris wheel in Gatlinburgh, Tennessee when this came on over the sound system. My sister who was 10 years older told me it was a dirty song about 'something'. I never forgot and still I knew it was a great song and a great performance. Better than anyone else who's covered it since.
electrasong 11 months ago
heb oude single nog liggen,blijft moooi!!!
fredrosier 11 months ago
Just incredible. She is still hot looking today as much as she was in the 1960s & 1970s. I would still date her even the way she looks today.
BBQFanNo1 11 months ago
my grandma died today, this has been on repeat for hours
Bluejaysforevs 11 months ago 2
Please accept my sincere condolences on your grandma's death.
...Otaku3
60otaku3 11 months ago 5
@Bluejaysforevs aww so sorry for ya mate...my sis has left us too....cannot get my head round it :(
listen to heart of an angel by Modern Talking....was my sisters song she was only 52 miss her so sos much it hurts :(
susansmith44 11 months ago
@Bluejaysforevs Im very sorry
YumYumBubbleGumm3 10 months ago
@Bluejaysforevs..don't worry, we are the unlucky ones to still reside on this self made aversion.
wetweasel56 10 months ago
@Bluejaysforevs My grandfather died in 1968 On the drive to his funeral from Atlanta where I lived as a 10-year-old boy to Bethlehem, Pa. where he lived this was on the radio over and over again,
johnlynch2000 10 months ago
The soundtrack of my life
TheMollybunny 11 months ago
When I hear this song, I always think also of Sandy Posey's, A Single Girl. Perhaps they charted around the same time & they are forever bracketed together in my memory.
Baskerville22 11 months ago 2
I met Merrilee back in the 90's at a dog show in the park in L.A. I also remember going into Big Daddy's in Santa Monica just to dance and she and her band were there playing this song. This was in the 70's.
meee223 11 months ago 2
I was cursing down Interstate 5 near Seattle Washington in a new 1968 Camaro when I first heard this song. This was playing on the radio when America was still innocent, before terrorists and Museums targeted America and before we had a black nut community organizer in the Whitehouse. Now it’s going to take more then an Angel to save America.
flashbell 11 months ago
@flashbell Innocent? You mean, when politicians and civil rights leaders were being assassinated innocent? You mean, when police dogs were being used against black men in suits and ties holding signs saying "I am a man" innocent? You mean when we were fighting a dirty little war in Vietnam that killed a million Vietnamese and still kills due to Agent Orange innocent? When was this innocent time you're talking about?
badtux 11 months ago
@badtux , Hey bud! America doesn't start wars. America eliminates dictators and liberates countries. Why di you only mention Vietnamese people killed and where are you from?
flashbell 11 months ago
@flashbell Oh yes, I supposed piles and piles of dead people ARE "liberated". Of course, probably not a liberation they welcome, but WTF, they're merely unseemly BROWN people so what does their opinion matter? I notice you didn't comment on the racial violence against blacks in the 1950's and 1960's that I mention. Tells me what you think "innocence" means -- means good times for WHITE people for you, yeppers!
badtux 11 months ago
@flashbell youre a fucking idiot and thats all got to say about that
Levination 11 months ago
@Levination , Ok, thanks!
flashbell 11 months ago
@badtux good comment about the times...
tommieparch 7 months ago
No one, but no one ever should have covered or re-recorded this. I know that is unreasonable, but not only was this the hit version, to me it's the only version. I wore out 2 copies of this one back in 1968, along with "Morning Dew" by Lulu.
bopava 11 months ago
Regarding this song, I have to agree with several of the other comments posted here: this is, BY FAR, MY FAVORITE VERSION.
The covers done by other artists, and I'm a big fan of Bonnie Tyler for one, just don't match Merrilee Rush and the Turnabouts performance.
willong1000 11 months ago
I don't know where she is but I imagine shes still kicking right around here somewhere close by. North Seattle when I went to school with her f**ked up, as*holistic son Mike Rush. That rotten b**tard ripped me off colder than s**t. But I did meet the beautiful Merrilee and there is no doubt that the apple fell REAL far from the tree. SHE was beautiful in every aspect of the word.
3pod501 11 months ago
whatever happened to Ms. Rush? Anyone know?
hampulator 11 months ago
God bless you cold2drink :Thanks for serving.,yes this reminds me of being a kid in the 60's and seventees!
hampulator 11 months ago
I will NEVER forget this song. I loved it to begin with and I still do, but this song came on my radio alarm clock when I was 15... I woke up to my walls, ceiling and bed on fire! This song was my "Angel in the Morning". That was 42 years ago!
Shordack 11 months ago
the first song i herd when i went to veitnam in 1967 the last song i herd when i left nam in 1969 ill remember it forever
cold2drink 11 months ago
One of my favorite songs, takes me right back to that time when I used to listen to this over and over on my 45 records. Merrilee sings it the best. Just beautiful.
ladylike1956 11 months ago
marvelous. and .unique.
falcone1958 11 months ago
The original, superior and definitive version of Angel of the Morning, so sad Juice Newton had to go and wreck this song.
bigbirdandsnuffyfan 11 months ago