Sunday Morning

10 March 2024 – It’s Soulful Sunday!

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Imperishable.

Sunday morning brings the dawn in
It’s just a restless feeling by my side
Early dawning, Sunday morning
It’s just the wasted years so close behind

Watch out, the world’s behind you
There’s always someone around you who will call
It’s nothing at all

Sunday morning and I’m falling
I’ve got a feeling, I don’t want to know
Early dawning, Sunday morning (early dawning)
It’s all the streets you crossed not so long ago

Watch out, the world’s behind you
There’s always someone around you who will call
It’s nothing at all

Watch out, the world’s behind you
There’s always someone around you who will call
It’s nothing at all

Sunday morning
Sunday morning
Sunday morning
Sunday morning

Waking Up On A Sunday Morning With THE VELVET UNDERGROUND

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Tunes that work fester than any stimulant

10 September 2023

The song is 56 years old and still the flawless one to get up with, slowly but surely.
And it will be the flawless one for the next 56 years. It’s why it’s called a timeless
classic.

Sunday morning, brings the dawning
It’s just a restless feeling by my side
Early dawning, Sunday morning
It’s just the wasted years so close behind

Watch out, the world’s behind you
There’s always someone around you who will call
It’s nothing at all
Sunday morning and I’m falling
I’ve got a feeling I don’t want to know
Early dawning, Sunday morning
It’s all the streets you crossed, not so long ago

Watch out, the world’s behind you
There’s always someone around you who will call
It’s nothing at all

Watch out, the world’s behind you
There’s always someone around you who will call
It’s nothing at all
Sunday morning

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Waking Up… With LOU REED On A Sunday Morning In 2004

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1967 classic Sunday Morning – written by Lou Reed – is the best-known song
by The Velvet Underground (more than 300 million streams on Spotify).
It featured on their intoxicating debut LP.

I stumbled by accident on this mesmeric version with the late genial Lou Reed playing
it live in 2004 on The Late Show With David Letterman’ at the Ed Sullivan Theatre NYC.

Riveting!

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MICHAEL STIPE Goes Underground On SUNDAY MORNING

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Daily electricity to load your batteries

26 December 2021

Last September I’ll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to the Velvet Underground and Nico came our way, with a battery of big rock names honoring the iconic New York City band
and more specifically their debut masterpiece LP of 1967.

As it goes with these sorts of albums, some are good, but most of them are dud. But
here on this tribute of an (almost) uncoverable band several interpretations actually
sound damn fine. Like Sharon Van Etten turning into a ‘Femme Fatale‘, Iggy Pop & Matt Sweeney trashing ‘European Son’, Kurt Vile running, and The National‘s maestro Matt Berninger with ‘I’m Waiting For The Man‘.

My favorite: Michael Stipe doing the LP’s opening
track, the Reed/Cale classic Sunday Morning.

Sunday morning and I’m falling
I’ve got a feeling I don’t want to know
Early dawning, Sunday morning
It’s all the streets you crossed, not so long ago

C’mon, Michael…

The full tribute…

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(photo Stipe: cover of his single ‘Your Caprious Soul’)

‘Sunday Morning’ by THE VELVET UNDERGOUND – Released November 1966

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Top singles from the past…

16 February 2020

Band: The Velvet Underground
Single: Sunday Morning
B-side: Femme Fatale 
Released: November 1966
Album: The Velvet Underground & Nico –
Debut LP – with the banana on the cover – released March 1967
Note 1: Lou Reed & John Cale wrote the song to be sung by Nico.
In the end, it was Reed who sang it, with backing vocals by Nico.
Note 2: The use of the celesta  for the track was an idea of Cale
Note 3: The timeless song was about paranoia (suggested by Andy Warhol)
“Watch out, the world’s behind you, there’s always someone watching you”

Here we go…

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