Tears in the Morning

"Tears in the Morning"
7" vinyl Swedish single cover
Single by the Beach Boys
from the album Sunflower
B-side	"It's About Time"
Released	October 12, 1970 (1970-10-12) [1]
Recorded	November 18, 1969 – January 28, 1970
Length	4:07
Label	Brother/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

• Al Jardine – harmony and backing vocals
• Bruce Johnston – lead vocals, harmony and backing vocals, Rocksichord, grand piano (during coda), production
• Mike Love – harmony and backing vocals
• Brian Wilson – harmony and backing vocals
• Carl Wilson – harmony and backing vocals, guitar

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

• Michel Colombier – arranger
• Stephen Desper – engineer

Cover versions

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

• Norwegian stoner rock band Thulsa Doom recorded a cover version of this song in 2005 for their album Keyboard, Oh Lord! Why Don't We?

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.^{[ permanent dead link ]}