Merrilee Rush: "Angel of the Morning" -- Fantastic!

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Wow, this is great. I think this is the version I heard as a kid. I wonder why someone had it in their Crystal Gayle folders.

So what are her other recordings like?

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:06 (twenty years ago)

Crystal Gayle: S/D, C/D, etc.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:09 (twenty years ago)

i used this on my '68 mix.

― surf punks from arizona (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:27 (twenty years ago)

I love this song. It's so sort of euphoric and sad and sleazy all at once.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:34 (twenty years ago)

if anyone *cough*jodymaybe*cough* has her version of 'reach out (i'll be there)' plz to ysi it

― j blount (papa la bas), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:36 (twenty years ago)

xpost: Dusty Springfield's "Breakfast in Bed" could be the sequel, same kind of free-love martyrdom.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:37 (twenty years ago)

couple of x-posts

JBR, I expected to see you on this thread. Would you be interested in send me that mix in return for something.

It's so sort of euphoric and sad and sleazy all at once.

I like that description.

I can hardly keep my head from flinging forward when the chorus comes around the final the time.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:39 (twenty years ago)

if anyone *cough*jodymaybe*cough* has her version of 'reach out (i'll be there)' plz to ysi it

i don't! i have petula clark's cover of it though!

sure i'll send you my mix. e-mail me.

― surf punks from arizona (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:52 (twenty years ago)

free-love martyrdom

yes, that's a great description! you can really see her throwing open her arms wearily and saying "aight let's do this."

― surf punks from arizona (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 00:56 (twenty years ago)

When she says "angel" I just want to die for her.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:20 (twenty years ago)

T/S: Juice Newton vs Merrilee Rush, "Angel of the Morning" FITE.

Go.

I gotta go with da Juice's way-over-the-top version.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:24 (twenty years ago)

they're both pretty over-the-top!

nina simone's is more understated, but i like it too:
http://s43.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=2MX2TYQCBQCEV1F7UXL064HDXV

― surf punks from arizona (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:26 (twenty years ago)

I love this song.

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:28 (twenty years ago)

I think I've only heard Nina's version though!
I think I do have another kicking about, but I forget who did that one (it's on one of those awful sunday paper freebie CD's) I should try and find it.

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

the "slowly, slowly" at the end of nina's is the best part.

― surf punks from arizona (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

and the harp!

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:35 (twenty years ago)

mmmm schmaltz

― surf punks from arizona (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

but sooo good.

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

as I suspected... your version is a different one btw!

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

that entire album by Rush is really good, I have it, on Bell. one of the great American Studios productions, with some fine Mark Lindsay songs, a really good funky version of "Hush," and a great feminist tract, I guess it is, called "Working Girl."

and speaking of "Dusty in Memphis," anyone else know this fantastic P.J. Proby version of "I Can't Make It Alone" with arrangement by Jack Nitzsche, from '66?

― edd s hurt (ddduncan), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:39 (twenty years ago)

anyone else know this fantastic P.J. Proby version of "I Can't Make It Alone" with arrangement by Jack Nitzsche, from '66?

i may have this, but i can't remember offhand.

― surf punks from arizona (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:41 (twenty years ago)

schmaltz - http://s60.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1E7X0IFJV1TMO07VKP13NVDLGV

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

mmmm schmaltz

― surf punks from arizona (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:54 (twenty years ago)

who's the second voice on that one?

― surf punks from arizona (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:55 (twenty years ago)

no idea! It's off a (very) budget compilation too, so there isn't much in the way of musician credits :(

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 01:57 (twenty years ago)

i hope the courts will accept this thread as evidence that ilx can still be "good" sometimes (any other board: "omg what kind of name is JUICE NEWTON, teh eighties were weerd")

― surf punks from arizona (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 02:00 (twenty years ago)

Guys, you need to hear the original by Evie Sands. It's even better!!1

― jared, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 02:10 (twenty years ago)

Checking out Evie Sands samples, though I can't find that one. Am I primed for female pop singers from the 60s all the sudden? These samples sound appealing but I'm not sure how much I'd actually listen if I were to get something like this.

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

The key to this song, for me, is the little fall-down/build-up at the end of each line of the chorus ("an-GEL", "dar-LING", etc.), giving one mini-crescendo after another. And there's nothing complex about it, it's just repeating the IV-V chords and building back to the I, but it's magical.

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 02:37 (twenty years ago)

(actually, there's no dar-LING, it's bay-BEE)

― gypsy mothra (gypsy mothra), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 02:39 (twenty years ago)

p.p. arnold
http://s37.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0EPPAM21CFGQG24GQ0XWJTKURL

― surf punks from arizona (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 03:21 (twenty years ago)

http://www.ready-steady-go.org.uk/sleeves/PP_Arnold.JPG

― surf punks from arizona (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 03:25 (twenty years ago)

(This is becoming like the "Oh Holy Night" thread. Incidentally, I guess I was lying and I am not really going to list Christmas carols I like. I still think most of them are great. Okay, one example, "Oh Little Town of Bethlehem," though I admit there may be some nostalgia behind my enjoyment of it. "O Come All Ye Faithful" is pretty good and reminds me of Christmas cookies. "O Come O Come Emmanuel" is interesting musically. What is that, minor chords or something? Is it supposed to sound "oriental" or is it just such an old hymn that there is still some trace of the orient on it? "Silent Night" is beautiful to singing during candle-light services. Not that I go to church any more.)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 03:34 (twenty years ago)

(Sorry that should have gone on the other thread except I didn't know I was about to list a few songs.)

― Rockist_Scientist (RSLaRue), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 03:35 (twenty years ago)

This is becoming like the "Oh Holy Night" thread.

you know i'm a sucker for that era when there was a "pop songbook" all the singers could raid at their own peril.

― surf punks from arizona (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 03:37 (twenty years ago)

It's the chorus...but it's also that confessional tone in the verses that really gets me. Especially in Merrilee's version. And that first "AY-ngel", i love it. Perfect song for a sad, drunken binge. Heck, the whole songbook Jody's talking about is full of them. God love em!!

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 03:56 (twenty years ago)

word.

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 03:59 (twenty years ago)

Pyjamas, wine & cigarettes. It's that kind of music...

― VegemiteGrrl (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 04:07 (twenty years ago)

pajamas optional.

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)

The Joya Landis version from the first Tighten Up comp is still my favorite version of this track:

http://s11.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=1AAE7JDW9MNQA3U7DMS6P0CCW7

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 05:35 (twenty years ago)

The Evie Sands version (the original?) is on the Cameo-Parkway box.

― General Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:58 (twenty years ago)

I think the story behind the Evie Sands is that Chip Taylor wrote that song for her to sing and he produced the record on Cameo-Parkway which then proceeded to go out of business shortly thereafter before the song became huge and so it didn't get distribution. Bell got Rush to record it produced by Tommy Cogbill and the rest as they say is history.

― jared, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:18 (twenty years ago)

Chip Taylor also wrote "Wild Thing" (another example that some punks were also nonpunks and vice versa).

Chip's other career:

As a professional gambler, he was one of the foremost thoroughbred horse race handicappers on the East Coast. When Chip turned his sights on the gaming tables, he quickly gained notoriety with his black jack prowess; finishing third in the World Black Jack Championship in Las Vegas. Taylor became one of the most feared card counters in the land and was ulimately banned from every casino in Atlantic City. In the late 80's, along with friend, partner, and renowned handicapper, Ernest Dahlman, he garnered enormous winnings through his horse racing exploits, specifically in the form of massive pick six scores (wagers where often times you get paid enormous sums for picking six winners in a row). These windfalls are known throughout the gambling world and well documented by the I.R.S....

― Frank Kogan (Frank Kogan), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 20:19 (twenty years ago)

You could sing "you know you got it/if it makes you feel good!" instead of the last line of the chorus, and it would fit in perfectly.

― Patrick (Patrick), Thursday, 1 December 2005 01:30 (twenty years ago)

you could, but why would you want to?

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 1 December 2005 01:49 (twenty years ago)

nine months pass...

i love this song so much.

― t0dd swiss (immobilisme), Thursday, 21 September 2006 17:27 (nineteen years ago)

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