"Tears in the Morning"
Single by the Beach Boys
from the album Sunflower
B-side"It's About Time"
ReleasedOctober 12, 1970 (1970-10-12)[1]
RecordedNovember 18, 1969 – January 28, 1970
Length4:07
LabelBrother/Reprise
Songwriter(s)Bruce Johnston
Producer(s)The Beach Boys
The Beach Boys singles chronology
"Slip on Through"
(1970)		 "Tears in the Morning"
(1970)		 "Cool, Cool Water"
(1971)

"Tears in the Morning" is a song by the American rock band the Beach Boys from their 1970 album Sunflower. Written by Bruce Johnston, it was issued as a single, with the B-side "It's About Time". The single failed to chart in the U.S., but reached the top 5 in the Netherlands.

Record World said that the band "should smile at the projected success of this excellent Bruce Johnston composition."[2]

Personnel

Sourced from Craig Slowinski[3] and Timothy White.[4]

The Beach Boys

Additional musicians

  • Ronald Benson – guitar, mandolin
  • Ray Pohlman – bass
  • Daryl Dragon – vibraphone
  • Hal Blaine – drums
  • Carl Fortina – French concertina
  • Igor Horoshevsky – cello
  • Anatol Kaminsky, Sam Freed, Marvin Limonick, David Frisina, George Kast, Nathan Kaproff, Alexander Murray, Dorothy Wade – violins
  • Virginia Majewski, Robert Ostrowsky, Alvin Dinkin, Allan Harstian – violas
  • Edgar Lustgarten – cello
  • Abe Luboff – arco double bass
  • unknown – trombone

Production staff

Cover versions

  • Belgian pop band The Radios covered the song in their 1990 album No Television.

Charts

Chart (1971) Peak
position
Dutch GfK chart[5] 4
Dutch Top 40[6] 6
US Record World 117

References

  1. ↑ Badman, Keith. The Beach Boys. The Definitive Diary of America's Greatest Band: On Stage and in the Studio Backbeat Books, San Francisco, California, 2004. ISBN 0-87930-818-4 p. 278
  2. ↑ "Sleeper Picks of the Week" (PDF). Record World. October 17, 1970. p. 109. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
  3. ↑ Slowinski, Craig (Summer 2020). "Sunflower: 50 Year Anniversary Special Edition (Issue 130, Volume 33, No. 3)". Endless Summer Quarterly Magazine (Magazine). Charlotte, North Carolina, USA: David Beard.
  4. ↑ White, Timothy (2000). Sunflower/Surf's Up (CD Liner). The Beach Boys. Capitol Records.
  5. ↑ "dutchcharts.nl - The Beach Boys - Tears In The Morning". Retrieved 24 February 2009.
  6. ↑ "De Nederlandse Top 40, week 2, 1971". Retrieved 24 February 2009.
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