Tears in the Morning explained

Tears in the Morning
Type:	single
Artist:	the Beach Boys
Album:	Sunflower
B-Side:	It's About Time
Released:	^[1]
Recorded:	November 18, 1969 – January 28, 1970
Length:	4:07
Label:	Brother/Reprise
Producer:	The Beach Boys
Prev Title:	Slip on Through
Prev Year:	1970
Next Title:	Cool, Cool Water
Next Year:	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

Notes and References

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. p. 278
Sleeper Picks of the Week. Record World. October 17, 1970. 109. 2023-04-24.
Slowinski. Craig . Summer 2020 . Sunflower: 50 Year Anniversary Special Edition (Issue 130, Volume 33, No. 3) . Endless Summer Quarterly Magazine . Charlotte, North Carolina, USA. David Beard. Magazine.
Sunflower/Surf's Up . The Beach Boys. 2000. Timothy. White. Timothy White (editor). Capitol Records. CD Liner .
Web site: dutchcharts.nl - The Beach Boys - Tears In The Morning . 24 February 2009.
Web site: De Nederlandse Top 40, week 2, 1971 . 24 February 2009 .