"Morning Side of the Mountain" | |
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Single by Tommy Edwards | |
A-side | "Please Mr. Sun" (1959 release) |
Released | 1951; February 1959 |
Genre | Pop |
Label | MGM |
Songwriter(s) | Larry Stock Dick Manning |
"Morning Side of the Mountain" | ||||
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Single by Donny & Marie Osmond | ||||
B-side | "One of These Days" | |||
Released | November 1974 | |||
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Label | MGM/Kolob | |||
Songwriter(s) | Larry Stock Dick Manning | |||
Producer(s) | Mike Curb and Michael Lloyd | |||
Donny & Marie Osmond singles chronology | ||||
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"Morning Side of the Mountain" is a song written by Larry Stock and Dick Manning and first recorded in 1951 by Tommy Edwards. It settled at #24 on the pop chart. Edwards re-recorded it in 1959, reaching #27 on the Billboard Hot 100. [1] The re-release was featured as the B-side of Edwards' other hit, a cover of Johnnie Ray's 1952 success , "Please Mr. Sun."
Late in 1974, Donny & Marie Osmond released a version which scored #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent one week at #1 on the Easy Listening chart. [2] The song charted equally well in Canada and the UK.
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