early morning songs
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The titles below are links to Songbook pages, large or small, containing various recordings, except for the two colored black.
- 1922 — Carolina in the Morning (m. Walter Donaldson, w. Gus Kahn) — standard — “Strolling with my girlie, where the dew is pearly early in the morning”
- 1928 — Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise (m. Sigmund Romberg, w. Oscar Hammerstein II) — jazz standard
- 1937 — Early in the Morning (Sonny Boy Williamson I)* aka “Bout the Break of Day” — blues standard, 1937
- 1947 — Early in the Mornin’ (Dallas Bartley, Louis Jordan, Leo Hickman) — r&b and blues standard
- 1955 — In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning (m. David Mann, w. Bob Hilliard) — 1955 standard
- c. 1958-1961 — Early in the Morning (Quinton Claunch, Charles Feathers) — Charlie Feathers demo
- 1962 — Early in the Morning (Noel Paul Stookey)
- 1964 — Early Morning Rain (Gordon Lightfoot)
* Wikipedia suggests a 6 June 1929 cut of “Soon This Morning” by Charlie Spand as the earliest recorded antecedent. Spand’s song opens with the lines
It’s early in the mornin’ ’bout the break of day
My head on the pillow where my mama used to lay…
