We’re listening to songs about my favorite time of day, morning, this week on A Symposium of Popular Songs. Accordingly, it’s a pretty mellow episode. Send recommendations my way at symposiumofsongs@gmail.com!
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0:00
Lost Dogs, “Up in the Morning” (The Green Room Serenade, Pt. 1, 1996)
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7:29
Bobby McFerrin, “Sweet in the Mornin’” (Medicine Music, 1990)
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12:25
Les Paul and Mary Ford, “The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise” (single, 1951)
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15:29
Reading: John Donne, “The Sun Rising”
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17:54
John Denver, “Leaving on a Jet Plane” (Greatest Hits, 1973)
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21:55
Dusty and Tom Springfield, “Morning Please Don’t Come” (single, 1970)
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24:34
Reading: Philip Larkin, “Aubade”
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28:49
Willie Nelson, “Bloody Mary Morning” (Phases and Stages, 1974)
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31:35
Bob Dylan, “One Too Many Mornings” (The Times They Are a-Changin’, 1964)
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34:09
Giles, Giles, and Fripp, “Thursday Morning” (Giles, Giles, and Fripp, 1968)
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37:44
Sylvia Plath, “Morning Song”
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39:54
Van Morrison, “Brand New Day” (Moondance, 1970)
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45:01
Ken Stringfellow, “One Morning” (Touched, 2001)
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47:31
Reading: Frederick Buechner, The Alphabet of Grace
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52:40
Bonny Light Horseman, “Bright Morning Stars” (Bonny Light Horseman, 2020)
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55:00
Andrew Osenga, “Early in the Morning” (The Morning, 2006)
