*First Time Hearing* Juice Newton- Angel Of The Morning|REACTION!!

[@harpergras]

While my mom was cooking or cleaning in our house back in the day...She used to sing this song all the time.

[@josephcox736]

This song is used to absolutely devastating affect in the final scene of the brilliant movie Promising Young Woman

[@IceManLikeGervin]

A very angelic reaction 👼👼🏿! Angel Of The Morning was released as the lead single from Juice Newton's 1981 album: Juice. It was written by Chip Taylor. It was produced by Richard Landis. The song reached #1 on the Adult Contemporary chart, #2 on the Cash Box 100, #4 on the Hot 100 and #22 on the Hot Country Songs chart. This song is about premarital sex, and while the '60s were very permissive in some regards, it was still a taboo subject in the media. In 1981, Juice Newton's music video for the song was the first Country music video to air on MTV, and the 40th video to air on the channel overall. Juice Newton was the third female solo artist to be featured on MTV's first air date after videos by Pat Benatar and Carly Simon.
Evie Sands originally recorded this song in 1967. Her version was doing well, but two weeks after it was released, her record label, Cameo/Parkway Records, went bankrupt. Chip Taylor, who wrote the song, was devastated when he found out the label could not promote it or even make more copies of the song. A few months later, Merrilee Rush & The Turnabouts version of the song became a hit for another for Bell Records. It was one of several close calls for Evie Sands, who never hit it big; she also did the original version of the song: "I Can't Let Go", which was later a hit for The Hollies.
The song has since been covered by many artists including 📻: Bettye Swann, Nina Simone, Chrissie Hynde, Dusty Springfield, PP Arnold, Connie Eaton, Barbara Jones, Mary Mason, Billie Davis, Melba Montgomery, Olivia Newton-John, Samantha Rose, Tracy Huang, Guys 'n' Dolls, The Pretenders, Maureen Davis, Pat Kelly, Skeeter Davis, Ray Conniff And The Singers, Bonnie Tyler and more.
According to Kent Kotal at Forgotten Hits, Chip Taylor came up with this song in about 20 minutes. Writes Kent:
"After strumming any variety of chords for close to two hours and coming up with nothing, he says the complete lyrics: 'There'll be no strings to bind your hands, not if my love can't bind your heart' flowed out of his mouth. His first thought was 'What is that? That's beautiful!' He then thought, 'Nobody actually TALKS like that!!! Where did those words come from?' Incredibly, in one sitting, spread out over no more than twenty minutes, he completed the entire song. He says that during the entire process, he never once thought, 'I'm gonna say this' or 'I'm gonna say that.' In fact, most of the time he was thinking 'I don't even know what this means!' In his own mind, he feels that he didn't so much as WRITE this song as that he DREAMED it... the way the lyrics flowed out, meshing perfectly with the series of chords he had been strumming - there just had to be some kind of divine intervention. 'I write melody and words at the same time and I hum nonsense things until something comes out. So I don't think about what I want to say... I just let the emotion carry me. In this song, the emotion just totally took over and carried me. It was magic'."
In the 2016 film: Deadpool, Juice Newton's version of "Angel Of The Morning" was used for the opening credits montage. As a result, the track re-charted on the Billboard Country chart, reaching #43, and also hit #3 on Spotify's World Music chart.
In 2021, Juice Newton's version of "Angel Of The Morning" was featured in the critically acclaimed, Oscar-winning film Promising Young Woman. Newton's recording is played for longer than four minutes during the film's climactic scene.
Lyrics 📝:
There'll be no strings to bind your hands
Not if my love can't bind your heart
And there's no need to take a stand
For it was I who chose to start
I see no reason to take me home
I'm old enough to face the dawn
Just call me angel of the morning, (angel)
Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby
Just call me angel of the morning, (angel)
Then slowly turn away from me
Maybe the sun's light will be dim
And it won't matter anyhow
If morning's echo says we've sinned
Well, it was what I wanted now
And if we're victims of the night
I won't be blinded by the light
Just call me angel of the morning, (angel)
Just touch my cheek before you leave me, baby
Just call me angel of the morning, (angel)
Then slowly turn away
I won't beg you to stay with me (me)
Through the tears of the day, of the years
Baby, baby
Just call me angel of the morning, (angel)
Juice Newton Info 📰:
Judith "Juice" Newton was born on February 18, 1952 in Lakehurst, New Jersey. She is a singer, songwriter and musician. Juice Newton has received five Grammy Award nominations in the Pop and Country Best Female Vocalist categories, winning once in 1983, as well as an ACM Award for Top New Female Artist and two consecutive Billboard Female Album Artist of the Year awards. Juice Newton's other awards include a People's Choice Award for "Best Female Vocalist" and the Australian Music Media's "Number One International Country Artist".
The discography of Juice Newton consists of 17 studio albums, one live album, 10 compilation albums, 39 singles, one video album, nine music videos, five guest appearances on all-star tribute albums, and dramatic readings in two audiobook anthologies. Juice Newton has several Gold and Platinum records to her credit, including: Juice, Quiet Lies and her first Greatest Hits album. During the 1980s, she charted 14 top 10 hits across the Billboard Country, Adult Contemporary and Hot 100 charts, with many of the recordings achieving crossover success and six of the songs hitting the No. 1 position.
Her mother encouraged her interest in music, giving Newton a guitar for her 13th birthday. She graduated from First Colonial High School in Virginia Beach, Virginia. After high school graduation, Newton attended Foothill College in Los Altos Hills, California, where she also performed Folk music in some local coffeehouses. She then formed a Folk-Rock band with guitarist and songwriter Otha Young, and toured bars in Northern California with her band that would eventually be called: Juice Newton & Silver Spur, which was signed to RCA Records.
The group released two albums for RCA Records: Juice Newton & Silver Spur (1975) and After The Dust Settles (1976), but scored only one charting single with their 1975 song: "Love Is A Word" (#88 Country). The band was eventually dropped by RCA Records, but then joined Capitol Records in 1977. The band broke up shortly after releasing just one more album: Come To Me (1977).
In late 1977, Juice Newton went solo, continuing to record for Capitol Records, and until 1982 Silver Spur remained the name of her backing band. Juice Newton also sang backing vocals for three tracks on Bob Welch's Platinum solo debut album: French Kiss (1977), including his hit song: "Ebony Eyes" (#14 Pop). Near the end of 1977, the single: "It's a Heartache" (#86 Pop), became Juice Newton's first solo song. In 1978, Juice Newton legally changed her name from "Judith Newton" to "Juice Newton", with "Juice" having long been her nickname.
Juice Newton's solo debut album: Well Kept Secret, was released later in 1978. Neither Well Kept Secret nor its sole single: "Hey Baby" charted, but Capitol Records did renew her recording contract. In 1979 Capitol's investment in Juice Newton began to pay off as she had her first Top-40 Country hit with the non-album single: "Let's Keep It That Way". Later that year, her second album: Take Heart, featured five modestly-charting singles. In 1980, the single: "Sunshine" (#35) became Juice Newton's second top-40 Country chart single, while the singles: "You Fill My Life", reached #41, and "Until Tonight", peaked at #42. Both of Juice Newton's initial solo album efforts performed with modest success but the best was yet to come.
In 1981, Juice Newton's third solo album: Juice, was released. It spawned three consecutive Top-10 pop hit songs: "Angel Of The Morning", "Queen Of Hearts", "The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)", earned her the first of several No. 1 Country chart singles. Her album: Juice, sold more than a million copies in the United States. Both singles: "Angel Of The Morning" and "The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known)", reached #1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, where Juice Newton would chart regularly for the next several years. Both singles were certified Gold (one millions copies sold).
In 1981, her music video for the single: "Angel Of The Morning", was the first Country-music video to air on MTV, and the 40th video to air on the channel overall. She was the third female solo artist to be featured on MTV's first air date after videos by Pat Benatar and Carly Simon. In 1982, Newton received two Grammy nominations for Best Female Vocalist: one for "Angel Of The Morning" in the Pop category, and another for "Queen Of Hearts" in the Country category.
In the spring of 1982 Newton released her fourth solo album: Quiet Lies, which sold 900,000 copies in the United States. The album's second single: "Break It To Me Gently", was a big hit reaching #1 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart, #2 on the Billboard Country chart, as well as #9 in Cash Box and #11 on the Billboard Hot 100. The recording, a contemporary remake of a Brenda Lee song from the 1960s, won Juice Newton her first Grammy Award for Best Female Country Vocal Performance, beating out contemporaries Dolly Parton, Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris and Sylvia. The 1982 album also garnered Juice Newton an award from Australia as the "Top International Country Artist" for the continent.
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Juice Newton would reach back to her Country roots with her 1985 album: Old Flame, the album reached No. 12 on the Billboard album chart and featured six Top-10 country hits, including the No. 1s: "You Make Me Want To Make You Mine", "Hurt", and "Both To Each Other (Friends and Lovers)" with Eddie Rabbitt.
Juice Newton's final album of the decade: Ain't Gonna Cry (1989), was not promoted by the record label and did not chart. But it did spawn her final Top-40 country hit to date: "When Love Comes Around The Bend", which RCA records refused to release as a single because her record contract had not been renewed.
After being dropped by RCA Records in 1989 along with several other Country artists, including Dolly Parton and Kenny Rogers, as Country music as a whole was about to undergo momentous change, Juice Newton took time to focus on her family life. She took a hiatus from recording albums, touring sporadically until returning to the music scene in late 1990s when she released the albums: The Trouble with Angels (1998) and American Girl (1999).
In 2005, Juice Newton appeared on the TV show: "Hit Me Baby, One More Time", on which she performed a Folk-Rock rendition of Ashlee Simpson's song: "Pieces Of Me", and a truncated version of her own song: "Queen Of Hearts"; online voters selected Juice Newton's performance as their favorite of the five acts that appeared on the episode.
In the mid-2000s, Juice Newton also contributed tracks to the albums An All-Star Tribute To Cher ("Reason To Believe") and An All-Star Tribute to Shania Twain ("Come On Over").
On October 26, 2010, "Juice Newton's Duets: Friends & Memories" album was released by Fuel 2000. The album contained duets performed with Willie Nelson, Melissa Manchester, Frankie Valli and others. One single: "Funny How Time Slips Away", has been released.
In the 2016 film: Deadpool, Juice Newton's version of "Angel Of The Morning" was used for the opening credits montage. As a result, the track re-charted on the Billboard Country chart, reaching #43, and also hit #3 on Spotify's World Music chart.
In 2021, Juice Newton's version of "Angel Of The Morning" was featured in the critically acclaimed, Oscar-winning film Promising Young Woman. Newton's recording is played for longer than four minutes during the film's climactic scene.
Juice Newton, who resides in San Diego, California, isn't currently schedule to perform anywhere in 2024.
Juice Newton Albums 📀:
Juice Newton & Silver Spur (1975)
After The Dust Settles (1976)
Come To Me (1977)
Well Kept Secret (1978)
Take Heart (1979)
Juice (1981)
Quiet Lies (1982)
Dirty Looks (1983)
Can't Wait All Night (1984)
Old Flame (1985)
Emotion (1987)
Ain't Gonna Cry (1989)
The Trouble With Angels (1998)
American Girl (1999)
The Gift Of Christmas (2007)
Duets: Friends & Memories (2010)
Some more good songs by Juice Newton 🎶: The Sweetest Thing (I've Ever Known), Break It To Me Gently, Queen Of Hearts, You Fill My Life, Sunshine, Until Tonight, Love Is A Word, Ride 'Em Cowboy, Texas Heartache, Shot Full Of Love, Come To Me, Hey! Baby, A Love Like Yours (Don't Come Knockin' Everyday), Love's Been A Little Bit Hard On Me, Restless Heart, Love Sail Away, I'm Dancing As Fast As I Can, I'm Gonna Be Strong, Trail Of Tears, Falling In Love, So Many Ways, Heart Of The Night, If I Ever, Go Tell It On The Mountain, Close Enough, I'll Never Love Again, Can't Wait All Night, Go Easy, A Love Like Yours, Love Hurts, Tell My Baby Goodbye, No Reason, It's Not Impossible, Just Holding On, Any Way That You Want Me, Shelter Of Your Love, The Trouble With Angels, One Step At A Time, Both To Each Other (Friends & Lovers), All I Have To Do Is Dream, Headin' For A Heartache, The Dream Never Dies, Ever True, Funny How Time Slips Away, Lay Back In The Arms Of Someone, Country Comfort, Sweet Sweet Smile, A Little Love, Tell Her No, Better Get Ready, Low Down And Lonesome, Nightime Without You, Both To Each Other (Friends & Lovers), First Time Caller, (All I Want To Do Is) Feel Good, If There Could Be, Ask Lucinda, Blue, When I Get Over You, Sailor Song, Crazy Little Thing Called Love, Hurt, When Love Comes Around The Bend, Shining Star, Christmas Wish, Dirty Looks, Anyway You Want Me, Stand By Me Jesus, Let's Keep It That Way, Just Remember Who Your Friends Are, You Make Me Want To Make You Mine, Old Flame, The Fire Down Below, Auld Lang Syne, Good Luck Baby Jane, They Never Made It To Memphis, What Can I Do With My Heart, Crying Too Long, Good Woman At Home, River Of Love, Won't You Stay (Just a Little Bit Longer), Twenty Years Ago, Easy Way Out, Waiting For The Sun, Stranger At My Door, Keeping Me On My Toes, Don't Bother Me, Cheap Love, Tear It Up, Roll On Trucker, Slipping Away, Tell Me True, Christmas Needs Love To Be Christmas, Til You Cry, Goin' To Work, May Day, Let Your Woman Take Care Of You, Jingle Bell Rock, Love Is The Only Chain, Stuck In The Middle With You, (And) Then He Kissed Me, San Diego Serenade, Emotions, Adios Mi Corazon, I'm Only Walkin', Catwillow River and Red Blooded American Girl.
Fun Fact 🕵‍♀: Juice Newton is an accomplished equestrian. Juice Newton also works as a horse trader. She deals mostly in European horse breeds.

[@davidwaite7861]

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[@malinhead322]

Original from 1968 was sung by Merilee Rush - it's a nice song, love the melody and arrangement.

[@IceManLikeGervin]

Some reactions to consider 🤔: The Temptations- Papa Was A Rollin' Stone Live (ReelinInTheYears66 YT channel), Carpenters- Only Yesterday or ABBA- Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight).

[@jeffreythaw3333]

The original sung by Merilee Rush is much better!