I Woke Up in Love This Morning

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"I Woke Up in Love This Morning"
I Woke Up In Love This Morning - The Partridge Family.jpg
Single by The Partridge Family
from the album Sound Magazine
B-side "Twenty-Four Hours a Day"
ReleasedAugust 1971
Genre Pop
Length2:43
Label Bell Records
Songwriter(s) L. Russell Brown, Irwin Levine
Producer(s) Wes Farrell
The Partridge Family singles chronology
"I'll Meet You Halfway"
(1971)
"I Woke Up in Love This Morning"
(1971)
"Am I Losing You"
(1972)

"I Woke Up in Love This Morning" is a song written by L. Russell Brown and Irwin Levine and recorded by The Partridge Family for their 1971 album, Sound Magazine . [1] It went to number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1971; [2] it hit number 4 in Canada. [3]

Contents

Cash Box called it a "splendidly commercial outing." [4]

Chart performance

Later versions

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