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So Soon in the Morning" is a traditional religious song performed in 1959 by Joan Baez and Bill Wood on Baez's first album, Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square. The duo sung it in a fast gospel tempo. The lyrics contain lines from a 19th-century hymn, " I heard the voice of Jesus say ", written in 1846 by Horatius Bonar :
" Morgenglanz der Ewigkeit" (Morning splendour of eternity) is a Christian hymn with German text originally by Christian Knorr von Rosenroth, written around 1690 and set to music for private devotion. It became known with a 1662 melody by Johann Rudolf Ahle. The song is part of modern German hymnals and songbooks.
Fleet Foxes covered this song for Record Store Day 2018, backing a choral version of their song Crack-Up. They subsequently covered the song on their live albums A Very Lonely Solstice in 2020 and Live on Boston Harbor in 2024. The Bluegrass 45 released a bluegrass version as the title song of the 1973 LP In the Morning (Rebel SLP 1516)
1962 – It appears on Mike Seeger's album Old Time Country Music, Folkways FA 2325. [50] Mike Seeger recorded three versions of the song. [4] 1962 – in their 1962 self-titled debut album, Peter, Paul and Mary recorded another version as "Sorrow". [51] 1966 – It was recorded by Waylon Jennings on his 1966 major-label debut Folk-Country. [52]
In turn, these editors of the hymn book Songs of Praise requested Eleanor Farjeon to write a further hymn text to the tune. This was Morning Has Broken, and since 1931 the tune has become most familiarly identified with this hymn. [6] In 1971, a version of "Morning Has Broken" was recorded by English singer Cat Stevens, helping popularise the tune.
"Morning Star" is an American Moravian Church carol with text originating from a poem by Johannes Scheffler in 1657 and music composed by Francis F. Hagen in 1836. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] References
"Brightest and Best" (occasionally rendered by its first line, "Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Morning") is a Christian hymn, and sometimes called a carol, written in 1811 by the Anglican bishop Reginald Heber to be sung at the feast of Epiphany. [1]
Din klara sol går åter opp is a song with lyrics by Johan Olof Wallin, from 1814. Being a Christian morning hymn about Sunrise, it was a common morning prayer song [1] in the Swedish primary school for decades. Johan Georg Christian Störl is often credited as composer of the tune.