{"id":805,"date":"2025-10-27T16:04:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/?p=805"},"modified":"2025-10-27T16:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T16:04:20","slug":"mm-1967-%f0%9f%98%87","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/2025\/10\/27\/mm-1967-%f0%9f%98%87\/","title":{"rendered":"MM &#8211; 1967 \ud83d\ude07"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ANGEL OF THE MORNING - Juice Newton (Lyrics)\" width=\"1140\" height=\"855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NmxICK-4AG4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">The song was composed in 1967 by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chip_Taylor\">Chip Taylor<\/a>, who said of it: &#8220;I wrote &#8216;Angel of the Morning&#8217; after hearing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Rolling_Stones\">the Rolling Stones<\/a>\u00a0song &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ruby_Tuesday_(song)\">Ruby Tuesday<\/a>&#8216; on the car radio when I was driving into New York City. I wanted to capture that kind of passion.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>&#8220;Angel of the Morning&#8221; was originally offered to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Connie_Francis\">Connie Francis<\/a>, but she turned it down because she thought that the lyrical message was too risqu\u00e9 for her image.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Taylor produced the first recording of the song with\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Evie_Sands\">Evie Sands<\/a>, but the financial straits of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cameo-Parkway_Records\">Cameo-Parkway Records<\/a>, which had Sands on their roster, led to a highly limited single release and no promotion.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The second recording was by UK vocalist\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billie_Davis\">Billie Davis<\/a>, made in 1967 by Danny Michaels for\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lee_Hazlewood\">Lee Hazlewood<\/a>&#8216;s LHI label; however, this version failed to make an impact. Davis&#8217; version was later included on her 1970 debut album\u00a0<em>Billie Davis<\/em>.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/P._P._Arnold\">P. P. Arnold<\/a>\u00a0provided backup vocals for that version and later released a version herself on her 1968 album\u00a0<em>Kafunta<\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>The highest-charting and best-selling version in the United States was recorded and released in 1981 by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Country_rock\">country-rock<\/a>\u00a0singer\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Juice_Newton\">Juice Newton<\/a>\u00a0for her album\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Juice_(Juice_Newton_album)\">Juice<\/a><\/em>. Newton re-interpreted the song at the suggestion of Steve Meyer, who promoted\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Capitol_Records\">Capitol Records<\/a> singles and albums to radio stations and felt that a version of the song by Newton would be a strong candidate for airplay.\u00a0\u00a0Newton stated that she would never have thought of recording &#8220;Angel of the Morning&#8221;, even though she immediately recognized the song when Meyer played it for her: &#8220;I [had not been] really aware of that song because&#8230;when [it] was popular I was listening to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Folk_music\">folk music<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rhythm_and_blues\">R&amp;B<\/a>\u00a0and not\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pop_music\">pop<\/a>, and that was a very pop song.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><strong>Newton&#8217;s version reached No. 4 on the\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u00a0Hot 100, No. 22 on the\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Billboard_(magazine)\">Billboard<\/a><\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hot_Country_Songs\">country music chart<\/a>, and spent three weeks at No. 1 on the\u00a0<em>Billboard<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Adult_Contemporary_(chart)\">adult contemporary chart<\/a> in April of that year.\u00a0\u00a0The recording also earned Newton a Grammy nomination, in the same category as Rush&#8217;s 1968 hit, at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/24th_Annual_Grammy_Awards\">24th Annual Grammy Awards<\/a>. More than one million copies of Newton&#8217;s single were sold in the United States, and it reached the Top 5 in a number of other countries, including Canada (number 1), Australia (number 2), South Africa (number 3), Switzerland (number 4) and New Zealand (number 5). Notably, Newton&#8217;s video for &#8220;Angel of the Morning&#8221; was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_first_music_videos_aired_on_MTV\">the first country music video aired<\/a>\u00a0on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/MTV\">MTV<\/a>, debuting the day the network launched, in 1981. In the UK, the recording reached No. 43 on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/UK_singles_chart\">UK Singles Chart<\/a>, marking the song&#8217;s third appearance on that chart without becoming a major hit. \u00a0Newton recorded the song again in 1998 for her album\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Trouble_with_Angels_(Juice_Newton_album)\">The Trouble with Angels<\/a><\/em>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The song was composed in 1967 by\u00a0Chip Taylor, who said of it: &#8220;I wrote &#8216;Angel of the Morning&#8217; after hearing\u00a0the Rolling Stones\u00a0song &#8216;Ruby Tuesday&#8216; on the car radio when I was driving into New York City. I wanted to capture that kind of passion.&#8221; &#8220;Angel of the Morning&#8221; was originally offered to\u00a0Connie Francis, but she [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":92,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/92"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/civatar.com\/suziqsthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}