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"Morning Girl" is a 1969 song by The Neon Philharmonic. It was a hit in Canada and the United States. The recording featured a chamber-sized orchestra of Nashville Symphony Orchestra musicians, and the project was headed by composer Tupper Saussy and vocalist Don Gant.
They released their two albums (The Moth Confesses and the eponymous The Neon Philharmonic) in 1969, and scored a Top 20 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart that year when "Morning Girl" [1] (featuring the Nashville Symphony Orchestra, [1]) hit number 17 on Billboard and number 15 on the Cash Box chart. [3]
The albums were The Moth Confesses (1969), containing the duo's biggest hit "Morning Girl" (peaked at #17 on 7–14 June 1969), and the eponymous The Neon Philharmonic (1969). In Nashville, Tennessee he worked at Acuff-Rose Music as a songwriter and as an executive. [2] He wrote a number of songs himself and co-wrote with Joe Melson.
The Neon Philharmonic's single "Morning Girl" rose to Top Twenty status and was nominated for two Grammy awards in 1969. Earlier in Saussy's career, Monument Records had released several albums of his jazz compositions: Discover Tupper Saussy , Said I to Shostakovitch , and The Swingers' Guide to Mary Poppins (this last featuring songs from the ...
The Moth Confesses is the 1969 debut album by The Neon Philharmonic.Described as "A Phonograph Opera," it was inspired, according to the liner notes, by a production of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra, which Saussy attended after The New York Times claimed that it was a terrible opera, and wanted to see what a terrible opera looked like, which he surmised was its deliberate attempt to ...
The Neon Philharmonic, subtitled Dedicated to the Baroness d'A, is the eponymous second album by The Neon Philharmonic, again consisting of songs written by Tupper Saussy and sung by Don Gant. "You Lied" and "No One Is Going to Hurt You" were released as a single in July 1969.
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