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  • this song is beautiful

  • Just knowing he was on this made it a better place to be. Still hurts..

  • What a beautiful way to start an amazing career! One of Dan's best!

  • I saw Dan a looong tme ago at the Kennedy Center in DC. Just him, a mic, a stool and a glass of water, and he played for three solid hours. One of the best concerts EVER!

  • yes..my heart just breaks...it's like he reached in my broken heart...and said ..nothin' left to say but.. come on mornin'....I can almost breath..

  • This song are similar song of Patty Pravo "Pigramente Signora" Festival of Sanremo 1987 are plagio?

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  • bellissima

  • don't know what it is but by god he had it in earnest

  • The first time I hear this song I was crashing at a college dorm and just waking up. Felt like I was being caressed awake.

  • Dan's music is full of so much insight. He really was a genius songwriter. I'd put him up there with Gordon Lightfoot , Carole King, Neil Sedaka and Paul McCartney. R.I.P. Dan.... We all miss you.... you live here on YouTube for those of us who grew up with you and for those who will discover you down the road.

  • Will I ever stop mourning............

  • @hotairbassoon I know. Just know you are not alone. I still have an occasional solitary tear for Dan and his music. Thank God for Dan and his talent. RIP my Minstrel.

  • Very very beautiful.... Dan had so much talent and I hope he's still singing in Heaven ~ thankyou for uploading this wonderful video.... We are so lucky to have his music still with us.... ☀ ♥✿♫♪✿♥ ☀

  • THIS WAS HIS FIRST SONG -FROM WHAT I HAVE HEARD ...... 1973

  • I love this song. My sister, Helen, used to drive me to school and play this song on the way in her Ford Pinto. I'll never forget listening to this song on the path down Telegraph Canyon Road Helen. Love you!

  • This so takes me back....

  • ...the spell is over, the sun is rising; its on the horizon, I find myself falling awake and in love...

  • Dan Fogelberg Memorial Garden dedication at Riverfront Park, 29aug2010 Peoria IL. Thumb this up & spread this msg to other Danvids for a big fan turnout.

    TageKaliandrino, please comment?

  • this is a great song. Nice and relaxing music, one of my favorites. " and maybe there are seasons, and maybe they change, and maybe to love is not so strange...." nice lines

  • This song will always remind me of an October night parked at Red Rocks Amp and getting my heart broken by my best friend who left me for a life of partying in the Midwest. I will never be the same. But the tears that it still brings to my eyes to this day will forever remind me of why we all love in the first place. Thanks Dan for all the songs that gave our lives meaning.

  • in italy out as PIGRAMENTE SIGNORA in 1987....by patty pravo.....A LIVING LEGEND

  • Just been thinking about Dan for the last few days -- I grew up with his music. So beautiful and sad. Miss you Dan. Thanks for the beautiful music. ~B~

  • While growing up, we always had a Sunday or two a month doing chores/projects around the house followed by making a good home-cooked meal. Music would be played all day inside and outside on external speakers. Many of those Sundays, no matter the season, no matter the weather, were made quite complete with Dan's music. Many of his songs would stick with you as you hummed them to get through the rest of the humdrum week...until the next good Sunday. RIP Dan, you left the world a better place.

  • Many years ago I heard this song many mornings at exactly 6AM on Chicago's classical music radio station WFMT. What I great way to start a work day.

  • @bobx2x2 I too woke up to this song for many mornings. It was a pleasure to face the day. I listened to WFMT for 50 years. Nothing like it where I am now!

  • @terryd1023 Yes , i am still in mourning for he left this world too soon. :(

  • i love dan... his voice is like no other.... rip

  • ahhhhh BEAUTIFUL. Magic. Inspiring. Awestruck...

  • @txeire I am SOOO sad tht he left this world too son.. I LOVE YOU DAN!!!! :(

  • I miss you. :-(

  • I am a morning person and feel the way the song goes.. a lovely song...

  • What a wonderful experience for you. I plan on going to Maine this August and seeing the Reach. I want to try to do it on his birthday. It must have been a very almost "spiritual" experience for you. And you're right, he is very deeply missed.

  • To "meejet" three months ago:You said about Dan three months ago,"You were wise beyond time and space". Dan was proof enough for me that there are 'higher worlds" to which you can tune intoas an artist or any person..like Dan did to write his music.There is life beyond death in the pure spirit world and that is where Dan is now...along with the many others we have " lost along the way" Soul power....!Dan is in our hearts.

  • This song is one of his best songs that not many of his fans really know.GREAT !!!

  • Love Love Love this song. Reminds me of waking up in college in upstate New York in 1978 after a long night of partying and hearing this playing firs thing in the morning!! What a way to wake up!!!!

  • RIP Dan and thank you for sharing your beautiful music that became the sountrack of our growing years when nothing made sense but music

  • What can be said a very cool song . I remember laying in my bed at school Schreiner College Kerrville Texas in 1973 and dreaming about my girlfriend Laurel .... so far away .. remembering all of the great time ... so lonely .. Wow thanks for this song Dan .. may you rest in peace . Your missed

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  • @terryd1023

    When I read your comment here, I got chills! What a special connection you experienced! I hope to get to Maine, and look out at the Reach, someday....

  • TageKaliandrino-

    Your vids always tear me up. I guess once you love something, it is always with you in some form. To The Morning!!!

  • This song has helped me through many long nights - beginning in the 1970s when it was first recorded to last night in 2009. RIP Dan - you were wise beyond time and space.

  • How can you miss someone so much that you never met??

    Dan, you are a very special soul!

  • After "Birds", just got to start listening all over again ......... a beautiful, sensitive man who crafted the most soul searching music and lyrics ever. My heart still aches from his loss...

  • IGNORE THE VIDEO! Close your eyes and just visualize his words and music for yourself. Spectacular song.

  • yea i agree - the video to me does not relate to the song... but it's a beautiful song and one of my favorites by him. I was amazed to find it on here! It's on his first album! he was a great songwriter and is missed.....

  • Holy canoli! My girl and I actually hiked some miles through dense woods from a yellow castle to the castle in the video(Schloss Neuschwanstein). That castle is crazy awesome in and out. I've always loved Dan's music, by the way :D

    great vid/song thanx!

  • Missing you, Danny-boy.

  • Thanks so much for uploading this video for all of Dan Fogelberg's fans..Thanks Dan you inspired me to try and play the acoustic guitar. Now, every time I pick up my guitar I think of you Dan, and I always play some of my favorite songs written by you!

  • This is one of my favorite songs in the world. What a talent! I really miss knowing that he's not on the planet anymore.

  • Teri, Those wonderful "brownies" only added to what was one of the most memorable encounters I've ever had with any woman to be as one to this wonderful song and artist. Though many years have come and gone his music lives through us and that special night on the shores of Ct. Be Well,  Michael

  • What a wonderful song. The video doesn't do much for me. But the song was once of his best. I miss him. He was such an awesome writer and performer. He sang from his heart! He gave us his heart!

  • The vid to the song is wonderful. what a nice little hidden gem I found in youtoube.

  • Worst video...jflinn210, I get it...this was once an important song..so profound..they never really knew Dan..

  • Such a beautiful song. I've cried to this song; made love during this song; gotten stoned to this song; had a religious experience during this song; once, even contemplated suicide during this song, so many many years ago ... such a deep, soulful, shining example of what perfect songwriting really is.

  • michael, thanks . he was great i saw him once in Ct.

  • Neuchswanstein castle

  • these vocals are off the charts beautiful. he was a 1 in a billion

  • omg , i've been to the castle in this video in bavaria in the 70's . 1 of king ludwig's called

  • This is such a great song. Yes, rest in peace, Dan Fogelberg.

  • I rode in the smokey mountain with evcamp and this was the best time of my life

  • this song reminds me riding in the mountains with evcamp in his 4x4

  • and kids wonder why we don't like their music. how can you after growing up with this?

  • Haha...too true. I would like to tell you, however, that I am only 18 years old. Dan Fogelberg has been a favorite of mine for probably my entire life. I have never wondered why don't like "our" music. There's simply no comparison, that's why. Great comment. =D

  • Over 30 years ago, there was a DJ I worked with who played this as is last song each night before he signed off at 1 a.m. Gave me goosebumps then, still does now....

  • This song of Dan's is raw with the delicate power of a dawn flower essense and pulses with healing vibrations of an ungrounded deionized breath of fresh air.. Thank you from the aethers Dan...

  • This song takes me places few other songs can.

    You are still in our hearts Dan.

  • My love to Dan on the 1st anniversary of his death.

    <3 RIP, Dan.

  • My muse is gone. I really loved this man and his music. His music took me on many roads. If there is a Heaven, he's got to be there.

    Seemed like a sincere man-never got caught up with the Hollywood thing.

  • Heard this song for the first time yesterday, absolutely beautiful, but what else should I expect from Dan. I really love his song "Believe in Me"

  • This is one of my personal favorites of D.F., my others are The Reach, The Netherlands and Dancing Shoes.

  • D.F. will always be missed

  • wonderful song

    so sweet to describe how time goes by and how life opens the arms to hug us

  • This is a song that influenced my life. As we grow older, we can't help but to reflect. I thank Dan for writing and recording this song to share the same feelings of love, friendship and a promise of a new day. I know God is very happy to have you my friend. Sing your songs to him and let them filter down to the rest of us forever. Jackson, Mississippi will always remember you. Thanks my friend!

    Chuck Smith

  • some of the most beautiful moments of my life were to this song.... never will i forget- thank you, dan.

  • this song is the best.,.,i worked at an Inn in NH when i was 14 and 15 and fell in love with the owners grandson and we use to make love to this song.,.,and one night when he was gone i woke up to this song and looked out at the horses against the White Mountains and missed him so much.,.,we are good friends to this very day.,.,he is divorced and i am a widow and often wonder if we should get together and see what might happen :) I love you Robbie.,.,.still Kat

  • What are you waiting for??  Go for it! It will be like you were never apart, I'll bet!

  • Life is short, long while you can and live while you can, that is the motto of a movie I have just written.

  • This track really takes me back (To the morning)My best friend, Sharon always found wonderful albums from people no- one else had heard of. This at the time was on one of them. I borrowed this in 1981 i think. She had to beg to get it back!

  • I used to visit a friend who first played Fogelbird, the Home Free album..so that is a few years ago. It is quite incredible at the obvious difference in the serenity of his music compared to almost anything today. I just don't understand how screaming and hate-filled music entertains. My wife and I got to see him in Concernt in Cleveland just a few years ago. I will carry his music with me forever.

  • My roomate and I used to go to sleep listening to this every night when we lived on Nantucket Island. I still love listening to it to fall asleep to.

  • I have several albums by Dan Fogelberg as we were the same age and I've followed his music since "Home Free". I work on the road and still play this song at sunrise whenever I need to be reminded that gratitude is the best attitute. Thanks Dan.....

  • Have you ever before heard such beautiful lyrics? This man was amazing....

  • Dan Fogelberg's music is wonderful, his lyrics and tender delivery. Rest in peace, Mr. Fogelberg.

  • His music definetely took you or put you in a different frame of mind. His music helps you cope with a world that sometimes wants to run you in the ground and then blame you for being there. But Dan's music brought you back up to face the world once again. I believe in my heart that Dan was just like us who appreciated him and his music. No fanfare, just a man that said i'm here with you trying to make a better place for us to live in through my music. Thank you sir! miss you!

  • Fantastic! Thanks for posting the video. Dan Fogelberg helped me throughout my teenage years, all those heartaches, lessons learned. All I had to do was put on one of his LP's and the world was right again.

    I cried when I heard of his passing. He touched so many lives with his music.

    .."and maybe true love is not so strange"...

    He found his. May we all find ours.

  • I love this song. I use to get up real early in the morning, put on this album, sit on the front porch and drink coffee watching the woods come awake from the long night's sleep.

    Rest in peace, Dan. Thank you for your beautiful songs that helped me through such tough times back in the 80s.

  • So so under rated as a musician; singer and performer. Dan, you are forever the best!!!!!!

    LOOK at all your fans at youtube : ) we are too many to count

    Vee> I loved you too

  • I know that the images in the video are from the castle of neuschwanstein in germany, but is the video of a movie or something like that?

  • Sorry it took me so long to get back to you, Sonorense. No the images are not from a movie. I just sewed them all together to create a dream-like experience. This song always lulls me into a mood where I kind of drift away peacefully, which is why I made the video the way that I did..."a dream".

  • I miss this man being here so much. His music has helped me through so much in the last 35 years it would be impossible to put into words. God Bless Dan - and thank you for his music and life.

  • I found so much peace while listening to Dan's music, especially when I was going through the toughest times of my life. God only knows what salice he brought to me...Thank you Dan.

  • Tremendous exercise of poetic license.  The video enhances a near perfect piece of music.

  • who knows the song where theses lyrics came from please 'Gonna write a classic, Gonna write it in an attic Coz baby I'm an addict For your lurve' thanks

  • Those lyrics come from the song Classic by Adrian Gurvits. I could have spelled his last name wrong.

  • Wonderful, thanks randomactsofgreen

  • Not enough words to say how much this song has meant to me... Love DF

    RIP Dan and GOD Speed

  • Agreed, THX!

  • What a man who had so much talent to share! Dan's music will live on. This song started it for me and I have loved Dan ever since I heard Home Free back in the 80s. Thank you Dan

  • When I heard this song back in my college days back in the early 80s I was hooked and I have been hooked on Dan Fogelberg ever since

  • I just cant get enough of this song, or any of the others from Home Free. It touches me like no other song does. It is so nice to read all the other comments here, and realize the similar effect Dan has on all of us.. I am so sad he is gone.

  • Grande Dan. Dalla Italia, riposa in pace.

  • The very first Fogelberg song I ever heard....so many levels and so many wisdoms from such a young artist. He makes my heart sing.

  • Such a beautiful song from a beautiful person. R.I.P. Dan :(...

  • let me hug you dear Kim! beautiful song from beautiful Dan sharing by beautiful Kim!!!

  • XOXOXOXOXO

  • Hi kim

    thanks for sharing this beautiful song

    big kisses from France!!!

  • Who is Kim?

  • A man like Dan can even make you love the morning....

  • I played this song at my wedding. No one knew it was coming as the song filled the Church. It was a special moment.

  • I, too, walked down the aisle to one of Dan's songs... Dec. 1980.... snowy afternoon in a log cabin church... will be in my mind and heart forever...sure that you feel the same...his music made memories for people to keep forever...

  • One of the most truly emotional songs ever. It's saturated in sadness, while at the same time evoking glimmers of hope ... I miss you, Dan.

    "Yes it's going to be a day, there is really nothing left to say but come on morning ..."

    Beautiful.

  • we used this as one of the songs for the slideshow at my grandmas funeral with all her pictures =[ r.i.p.

  • I have listened to this every morning since when it came out. it gets me to appreciate the day, and the people who I have loved and lost and those who have loved and lost me.But gives me hope for the moments after this one.

    true love is not so strange....hope

  • through all his great songs~ this is still my favorite. This album and Netherlands are just masterpieces!.. they bring back so many memories from my college days. Regretably I never got to see him in concert and I knew so little about him as he was so private and stayed out of the "limelight" I appreciate all these video's so much -- there are so few posted of his very early music! great job with the videos!! thank you!!

  • saw him many times-his solo acoustic tours

    w/ just the piano and his guitars,which

    hed always call"his wooden buddies", were

    the best . he was just as you would imagine

    when he performed. just like his music

  • thanks.. I had such a crush on him all thru college!! me and how many 1000's of other 19yr. old girls. He never toured close to Buffalo and I at the time couldn't afford to travel much further to see. What a great memory you'll always have..

  • I attended Dan's alma mater and another Illinois university in the 70s and every coed I knew loved Dan!

  • My wife and I were priveledged to see him at in New York,,, wow, it was magic. really. I miss him, how sad he is gone, pray he is with the Lord.

  • Great job. These video posts are so wonderful, welcome and comforting. Thanks ever so much.

    T.

  • and - the mornings still come .....

    yet - he no longer breathes our air.

    i miss him, i always will.

    thank you Dan.

  • All you folks from Tampa who were and still are Fogelberg fans. My folks were Carnival people . We spent our off seasons in Gibsonton and Dan Fogelberg was played in my bedroom...

  • On horseback listening to this, what bliss......

    SOMEDAY I WILL*_*

  • REST IN PEACE DAN!!!

    You were very important to my youth!

    You are LOVE! We love you.

  • This song was ny first introduction to Dan Fogelberg almost 30 years ago. He was an unbelievable talent, truly one-of-a-kind and there will never be another one like him. My heart breaks for his wife, Jean. How tragic to lose someone like him and way, way too soon.

  • I used to listen to this song every morning while I had breakfast looking out over a lake in Tampa during one of the most peaceful times in my life. A quiet morning, mist on the lake, steaming coffee, what a great way to start the day. I still can't quite believe he's left us...

  • I grew up in Tampa, too, listening to and loving Dan Fogelberg. Can't say my days/nights were peaceful, but that is a place I could always get to with his music and touching into his deep soul.

  • His music: So wonderful & full of insight & vulnerability (which in the privacy of our interior worlds, allowed even well-defended & emotionally walled-off men such as myself not only to feel but also to express our tenderness). In a particular four-year period (undergraduate years), I can track passages, transitions, ups & downs, triumphs & heart-breaks, loves won & lost by certain Fogelberg songs & albums. (Beautiful quote borrowed from Shoshin Seishu).

  • cuxca...that wasn't very nice...people like me and so many others get so much meaning from their favorite music and artists that created it.  Dan touched so many hearts.

  • CherchezMoi, don't worry about people who leave comments like the one cuxca left, they are what I call prickly people. The best you can do for them is try to love their prickles off, worse case scenario, take no notice. People met or unmet leave all sorts of impressions on our lives and we can appreciate them no matter what anyone else says. It is our right to remember and to express that. Peace to you, my friend.

  • TageKaliandrino: well said.

  • 1972. I was in my 2nd year of high school. My brother came home from college and brought me 2 gifts. A Firesign Theatre album and Dan Fogelberg's Home Free. The story went something like: I go to school with him and her performs these songs at the Red Herring Coffee House. Listen to it and I will teach you Looking For A Lady. Dan taught me after one of his shows. 36 years later, the words and the music ring just as clear. I miss coffehouses.  I miss Dan. Bittersweet these memories can be.

  • Thanks for sharing that very special memory. Would be a treasure for all of us that love him.

  • Perhaps one of the most beautiful songs of my life. I am so grateful for having it with me all the days of my life, and so incredibly sad that Dan is gone. Thank you, Dan, for the gifts. I will never forget you. RIP, dear friend.

  • Home Free is such a moving album. Rack yourself for uploading it.

  • Hi, txeire. I'm not American and I assume that "rack yourself" is an American saying. So could you please educate this little Kiwi and tell her what it means? Thanks:)

  • Sorry bout that. It basically means "pat yourself on the back" for a job well done.

    This was my favorite album on a cold rainy wintry day.

  • Homefree has always had a special place in my heart, as it was the soundtrack of my very first love story with somebody who's not in this world anymore..what memories in discovering this video..thank u very much..

  • Perhaps the greatest lyricist(sp?) of all time, makes other lyrics seem like rhymes by children. His music is awesome and will be sorely missed.

  • I will carry Dan's music with me till the end

  • On the Homefree album (Dan's 1st) so many songs shine...Stars, Looking for a Lady, To The Morning, The River...how does someone write such wonderful and beautiful music at 18-19 years old????

  • awesome!!!!!!!

  • One of the most beautiful songs ever written...I can say that about many of Danny's songs. I have listened to him everyday for nearly 30 years. Now my heart breaks when I do, but I still listen. He is missed. What a beautiful man, what a wonderful gift he had that he shared with so many. He will live on forever.

  • How sad that he's gone! He was very talented! Thank goodness his music lives on forever!

  • Its so hard listening to Dans music now, but the world would be a sadder place without it.Thanks for so many great songs Dan.

  • Loosing Dan was similar for me to loosing John Denver. I felt like I lost a good friend.

  • SusannTx - that is so true. I felt the same when Denver died...Lennon too. The good are taken early...God's plan, I guess.

  • ...and Dan wrote it when he was either 17 or 18 yrs old. What a magical talent.

  • This may very well be the most beautiful song ever written and recorded. I have loved his music more than for any other musicians in the last 30 years and I have seen him live @ a dozen times. His wonderful music stands for itself. On his website someone wrote "it is hard to imagine heaven, without Dan there". So very true

  • neusweinstein castle =)

  • Yes, I am going to own it one day and my room is going to be in the top tower! Ha ha ha, cough cough...say no more:)

  • Hey again Tage, yeah but you can only move there if you continue to make videos for us ( :

  • I FEEL all of your comments - I've also been a fan since "Home Free" and seen him in concert so many times. We have lost a dear friend with a deep soul.  May he rest in Heaven's grip.

  • I join you in saying I feel like I have lost a dear friend. Listening to his music brings me in and open and the tears keep coming. I don't recall the last time I have wept. Memories of bliss in Park City Utah at his concert. Dan, Thank you.

  • I second everyone's emotions. He'll be forever missed. This song particularly always got me in the heart and gut since it first came out. BB in FL.

  • Listening to his music has been ... really hard for me lately. His words and his voice were such a constant during my childhood, and on through the years. It honestly feels like I've lost a friend. So ... I want to listen to his music, as a comfort, but it's been really emotional when I try to lately. Especially this song ...

  • I too, have been playing this song frequently, but as I listen to it I cannot help but cry. Dan was such a beautiful soul. We lost a soul that has touch our lives with music and song.

  • i have been trying to find some songs from his 'souvenirs' album - 'morning sky', 'part of the plan', 'changing horses' to name a few, so many great songs by him and so few posted here that i can find

    rest in peace Dan and thank you for all of the great music you left us to remember you by

  • My favorite Fogelberg album, Home Free and "To the Morning" inspired me through many days of my youth. I heard of Dan Fogelberg's passing recently and, like many of you, felt the great and terrible loss of a friend. God Bless you, Dan! We will continue to share your music as you live on to inspire others.

  • This is one of my favorite songs. "To The Morning" is from his first album, "Home Free". It really showed Dan Fogelberg's pure musical talent. He composed, wrote, and played most of the instruments on this album. Dan thank-you for your musical talent. First heard you on the radio in 1975. Never stopped listening to your music since. Thanks for all the inspirational music. It touched my heart and soul in a very deep and profound way. I am forever grateful for that. Peace.

  • Your comment is eloquent. I found his music about the same time as you, and my experience included seeing him in Tampa and Seattle. This song has been a favorite for many years, and I too have never stopped listening. Your words have brought tears to my eyes and some peace to my heart. Thank you! You sound like a lovely person. Darlene

  • One of my favorite songs. Yes, it is from his first Home Free Album. There's alot of other great songs on it as well. Dan, I Love and Miss you. Thanks for all the inspirational music-it touched and still touches my heart and soul in a very deep way-Forever grateful!

  • Rest in Peace Dan .

  • I feel like I have lost a friend.

  • So many of us feel as though we have lost a dear friend. His music really does speak to the heart.

  • Such an amazing song, and to think it comes from Dan's first album.

    This, and many other songs, just seem to pull you in forcing you to, "feel," the full impact of the lyrics, "simply," about the new day, and how each day, and season, connects with your life, as it passes through the known, and the "Maybe's," that we all encounter, with, "Love," being the foundation for each day, and hope for a life, full of love.

    Sorry, my first impression, over 30 years ago, and it hasn't changed.

  • When the news came over CNN I cried,Thank you Sarah for keeping the legend alive.

  • Gone in the flesh, but the legacy and spirit will never be forgotten.

  • He'll certainly be missed. Thank your for posting this. One of the best song writers/performers of our time.

  • It is 8.48am here in New Zealand, 25th December, Christmas Day. Merry Christmas to everyone. Can you believe it has already been nine days since he passed? I had to listen to some Dan songs this morning, the first Christmas without him in the world somewhere quietly going about his life. Seems odd and sad to think he is not here any more. Peace to you and yours.