Single:
I Woke Up in Love This Morning entered the Australian singles chart* on 13 September 1971 and peaked at #5. The song was #72 on the Top 100 of 1971.
Album:
The song is on Sound Magazine which entered the Australian albums chart* on 13 December 1971 and peaked at #18.
Songwriters:
L. Russell Brown, Irwin Levine
Producer:
Wes Farrell
Record label of Australian release:
Bell
*Kent Music Report / Australian Chart Book. See About.
Wikipedia – Sound Magazine:
The Partridge Family Sound Magazine is the third studio album by TV-linked pop project The Partridge Family. Released in August 1971 before the start of the second season of the US TV series, it was their third hit album in ten months.
As with all of the group’s releases, the album features some of the era’s most highly regarded studio musicians, better known as “the Wrecking Crew”.
I Woke Up in Love This Morning was the album’s one hit single release.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_Magazine
Wikipedia – The Partridge Family TV show:
The family was loosely based on the real-life musical family the Cowsills, a popular band in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Read more: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Partridge_Family
Lyrics:
Last night, I turned out the light, lay down and thought about you
I thought about the way that it could be
Two o’clock, wonderin’ what I’m doin’ here alone without you
So I close my eyes and dream you here to me
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Also on Bang a Gong by The Partridge Family: I Think I Love You
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