Sunday Morning Sunshine

{{Infobox song

| name = Sunday Morning Sunshine

| cover =

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Harry Chapin

| album = Sniper and Other Love Songs

| B-side = Burning Herself

| released = October 1972

| format =

| recorded = 1972

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = Folk rock

| length = 3:28

| label = Elektra Records

| writer = Harry Chapin

| producer = Fred Kewley

| prev_title = Could You Put Your Light On, Please

| prev_year = 1972

| next_title = A Better Place to Be

| next_year = 1973

}}

"Sunday Morning Sunshine" is a song written and performed by Harry Chapin. The song was included on his 1972 album, Sniper and Other Love Songs. The song was released as a single the same year as his top 20 hit, "Taxi" and debut album, Heads & Tales. Cash Box described it as a "realistic look at city life."{{cite news|title=CashBox Record Reviews|date=October 7, 1972|page=21|accessdate=2021-12-11|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Cash-Box/70s/1972/Cash-Box-1972-10-07.pdf|newspaper=Cash Box}} Record World said to "look for this melodic self-penning to be covered often and well."{{cite magazine|magazine=Record World|date=October 7, 1972|accessdate=2023-03-29|title=Hits of the Week|page=1|url=https://worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/Record-World/70s/72/RW-1972-10-07.pdf}} The song charted on the Billboard Hot 100, however it received more commercial success when it charted as a top 30 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary. The song has also been included on numerous posthumous compilation albums.{{cite web|url = http://www.anyoldkindofday.com/index.php/Sunday_Morning_Sunshine|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180402225927/https://www.anyoldkindofday.com/index.php/Sunday_Morning_Sunshine|archive-date=2018-04-02|url-status=dead|title = Harry Chapin Wiki|website=Anyoldkindofday.com|accessdate=February 16, 2023}}{{cbignore}} King Biscuit Flower Hour recorded a live performance of the song for the show.

Chart performance

=Weekly charts=

class="wikitable"
align="left"|Chart (1972–73)

!align="left"|Peak
position

U.S. Billboard Adult Contemporary{{cite web | url = https://www.billboard.com/artist/harry-chapin/chart-history/asi/ | title = Billboard, Sunday Morning Sunshine|website=Billboard.com|accessdate=February 3, 2020}}

| style="text-align:center;"|30

U.S. Billboard Hot 100 {{cite web | url = https://www.billboard.com/artist/harry-chapin/chart-history/hsi/ | title = Billboard, Sunday Morning Sunshine|website=Billboard.com|accessdate=February 3, 2020}}

| style="text-align:center;"|75

U.S. Cashbox Top 100 {{cite web | url = http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/popmusichistory/Charts/Cash%20Box%201970s%20(By%20Artist).pdf | title = Cashbox, 1970-1979|website=Myweb.tiscali.co.uk|accessdate=February 3, 2020}}

| style="text-align:center;"|77

CAN RPM Top 100 {{cite web|url=http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/028020/f2/nlc008388.4225.pdf| title=RPM Top 100 Singles - December 9, 1972}}

| style="text-align:center;"|68

=Year-end charts=

class="wikitable"
align="left"|Chart (1972)

!align="left"|Peak
position

U.S. Billboard Hot 100 {{cite web | url = http://www.bullfrogspond.com/whitburn/1972wye.htm | title = 1972 Year End|website=Bullfrogspond.com|accessdate=February 3, 2020}}

| style="text-align:center;"|429

Other uses

  • The Swinging Blue Jeans covered the song on a single released in 1975.{{Cite web|url=http://www.45cat.com/record/611728|title=The Swinging Blue Jeans - Sunday Morning Sunshine|website=45cat.com}}
  • Tom Chapin and Steve Chapin's live performance is included on The Chapin Family's Harry Chapin: A Celebration in Song: Volume I album.

References