It's a beautiful morning on a Sunday
which always reminds me of rock & roll songs that are all about Sundays!
Blue Sunday is track 10 on the Doors’ fifth album Morrison Hotel, which was released in February 1970. The album continues the bands’ trend from their previous album, The Soft Parade, in using more bluesy and hard rock influences. Blue Sunday, which was written by guitarist Robby Krieger, is a rare song in the band’s discography as it is one of the few tracks where drummer John Densmore does not provide any percussion.
Sunday Girl is a song recorded by the American new wave band Blondie, from the band's 1978 album Parallel Lines. Written by guitarist Chris Stein, the song was inspired by Debbie Harry's cat, who was named Sunday Man—the cat had recently run away, inspiring the song's "plaintive" nature.
Sunday Girl was released as the follow-up single to the band's number one hit single, Heart of Glass, in the UK and Europe (though not in the US). The single was a number 1 hit in the UK and Ireland and reached the top ten in several European countries. It has since seen critical acclaim and has been included on several compilation albums.
"Felix Cavaliere and Eddie Brigati of The Rascals wrote this song after they realized that because of their work schedule, they could see their girlfriends only on Sunday afternoons. It's implied that these Sunday afternoons are spent with a nice romp.
Cavaliere told Seth Swirsky, who was shooting footage for his documentary Beatles Stories, "I met this young girl and I just fell head over heels in love. I was so gone that this joyous, wonderful emotion came into the music. Groovin' was part of that experience. If you look at the story line, it's very simple: we're groovin' on a Sunday afternoon because Friday and Saturdays are when musicians work. The simplicity of it is that Sundays you could be with your loved one. And the beauty of is this joyous bliss that at that time I equated with a person, but that's the beauty of music - when it's an example of what you do it lasts forever. You're in love forever because of that moment in time that you captured, and that's what was happening with Groovin'." (Beatles Stories)
The record company executives who worked on Groovin' didn't particularly like the song, but as they listened to the playback, influential New York DJ Murray the K overheard it and pronounced it a #1 record. Unbeknownst to the group, Murray went to Atlantic Records president Jerry Wexler and demanded it be released. As the program manager and top DJ on the first FM rock station (WOR-FM), Murray the K had this kind of clout, and also the rare ability to connect with listeners and recognize what songs would become hits. The Rascals, who started out as The Young Rascals, were playing at The Gordion Knot club on York Avenue when Murray picked them as his house band - the group that backed him up at personal appearances. It was that relationship (based on Murray's gut sense that the band had genuine potential) that drove his partisan support. (Record World)
Sunday is a song by American alternative rock band Sonic Youth. It was released in 1998 by record label Geffen as the first and only single from their 10th studio album, A Thousand Leaves.
The video for Sunday was directed by Harmony Korine and starred Macaulay Culkin and Rachel Miner. The video made liberal use of slow- and fast-motion cameras and images of ballerinas dancing and Culkin playing a banjo and interacting with Miner.
"On Oct. 10, 1970, Johnny Cash took the Kris Kristofferson-penned song "Sunday Morning Coming Down" to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot Country Singles Charts. Cash's recording of the song forever solidified it as one of the great entries in the American songbook. The tale of how it caught Cash's attention is also one of country music's greatest stories.
In 1969, the now legendary songwriter Kris Kristofferson was sweeping the floors at Columbia Records' offices in Nashville.
Anyone who knew Kristofferson's background might have scoffed at his new role. He was an Oxford graduate, a Rhodes Scholar, a former Captain in the Army, and a helicopter pilot. Despite his impressive resume, Kristofferson wanted nothing more than to be a songwriter, and he did anything to make that happen.
His janitor gig at Columbia was one step closer to achieving that goal. He watched Bob Dylan record Blonde on Blonde, but never mustered the courage to say hello. He did, however, meet another one of his idols: Johnny Cash.
Kristofferson would watch Cash in the hallways and through the glass windows when he was recording. They met a few times in passing, but Cash only knew him as the man pushing the broom. At this point, Kristofferson was already a prolific songwriter. He was desperate to give Cash tapes of his songs but knew that he'd get fired if his employers caught him. So he tried a different angle.
He befriended Johnny's wife, June Carter. June liked Kristofferson, and would often sneak demo tapes of his songs in her purse to bring home to Johnny. At night, she'd play the tapes for him in their bedroom above Old Hickory Lake in Tennessee. Every night Cash would listen and chuck them out the bedroom window into the lake below.
As fate would have it, Kristofferson was also working part-time as a helicopter pilot for the Army Reserve. On a routine flight training mission, Kristofferson veered off his course and headed for Cash's home on Old Hickory Lake. After landing the chopper on Cash's lawn, he walked up to the home with the demo of "Sunday Morning Coming Down" in hand. The rest is history." (Wide Open Country)
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