Tears in the Morning

"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.

Personnel

Sourced from Craig Slowinski and Timothy White.

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?
• Dutch coverband Beach Boys' Best covered this song in 2025 in the 5th season of the Dutch TV show . The same year, the song returns in the Dutch Top2000 after three years of absence, on position 404; the highest ranking ever in this chart.

Charts

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