# What is the song that ends with "beautiful morning?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 22, 2004, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-that-ends-with-beautiful-morning/260917 "2004-08-22T01:33:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![PaulFitzroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@PaulFitzroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulFitzroy)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-that-ends-with-beautiful-morning/260917/1 "2004-08-22T01:33:11Z")
What is that classic rock song that ends with “Oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day, oh what a beautiful morning, everything’s going my way?” It’s an up-tempo number, and doesn’t contain those lines until the very end, I think. Help! ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-that-ends-with-beautiful-morning/260917/2 "2004-08-22T01:52:49Z")
That’s not classic rock - it’s a lot older than rock. I’m trying to remember - was it an old Disney film, or from _Showboat_? ---
**Author:** ![PaulFitzroy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/2acd7d/32.png) [@PaulFitzroy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PaulFitzroy)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-that-ends-with-beautiful-morning/260917/3 "2004-08-22T01:54:32Z")
In my fruitless search for this song I’ve come across a hundred or more variations of the line, including show tunes and all kinds of garbage. But the song I have in mind is definitely a rock song, nothing more and nothing less. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-that-ends-with-beautiful-morning/260917/4 "2004-08-22T01:54:58Z")
I think that’s the opening musical number from **Oklahoma!** (Rogers & Hammerstein, I think.) ---
**Author:** ![AmyG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@AmyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmyG)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-that-ends-with-beautiful-morning/260917/5 "2004-08-22T02:02:26Z")
> [@The Scrivener](#): > > I think that’s the opening musical number from **Oklahoma!** (Rogers & Hammerstein, I think.) You are correct, sir! It is the opening musical number from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Oklahoma. The corn is as high as an elephant’s eye. ---
**Author:** ![AmyG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/6bbea6/32.png) [@AmyG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmyG)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 2:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-that-ends-with-beautiful-morning/260917/6 "2004-08-22T02:04:11Z")
> [@PaulFitzroy](#): > > In my fruitless search for this song I’ve come across a hundred or more variations of the line, including show tunes and all kinds of garbage. But the song I have in mind is definitely a rock song, nothing more and nothing less. But, please note, I have no idea about the answer to the OP. Sorry! ---
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-that-ends-with-beautiful-morning/260917/7 "2004-08-22T02:05:19Z")
Yes but the Oklahoma number has those words as the opening line, so it’s not what the OP is talking about. Presumably someone included it in some later work. Sampling? Homage. Something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-that-ends-with-beautiful-morning/260917/8 "2004-08-22T02:08:25Z")
I’m pretty sure those are the last lines of the song as well. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-that-ends-with-beautiful-morning/260917/9 "2004-08-22T02:15:29Z")
You couldn’t be thinking of the Rascals’ [A Beautiful Morning](http://home-1.tiscali.nl/~sb068187/Kunst/Muziek/rascals.htm) could you? It’s only real qualification is that is it a rock song, but the the lines the OP quoted are from Oklahoma and that’s about as much rock as Cole Porter is. ---
**Author:** ![spingears](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@spingears](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spingears)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-that-ends-with-beautiful-morning/260917/10 "2004-08-22T02:39:35Z")
Answer to OP: None that I know of, it’s the first line of the chorus. I reached back in the dark corners of memory for the following. From the musical “Oklahoma” Song Title: _Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin’ Lyrics_ There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow There’s a bright golden haze on the meadow The corn is as high as an elephant’s eye, An’ it looks like it’s climbin’ clear up to the sky. _Oh, what a beautiful mornin’,_ Oh, what a beautiful day. I got a beautiful feelin’ Ev’rything’s goin’ my way. * * * * * * Somebody may have borrowed it to use as the last line of something or other but it wasn’t from the Broadway Show “Oklahome” ---
**Author:** ![baronsabato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@baronsabato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/baronsabato)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-that-ends-with-beautiful-morning/260917/11 "2004-08-22T02:43:33Z")
> [@PaulFitzroy](#): > > In my fruitless search for this song I’ve come across a hundred or more variations of the line, including show tunes and all kinds of garbage. But the song I have in mind is definitely a rock song, nothing more and nothing less. Are you thinking of the [cover](http://www.cs.stir.ac.uk/~twi/eels/ohwhatabeautifulmorningalbum.html) of “Oh, What A Beautiful Morning” by the Eels? It’s not really classic rock so much as it is modern rock, especially considering that it was released a mere four years ago, but it may be what you remember. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-that-ends-with-beautiful-morning/260917/12 "2004-08-22T14:56:17Z")
> [@PaulFitzroy](#): > > What is that classic rock song that ends with “Oh what a beautiful morning, oh what a beautiful day, oh what a beautiful morning, everything’s going my way?” It’s an up-tempo number, and doesn’t contain those lines until the very end, I think. Help! There was a song by either Daniel Boone or D. Boone. The chorus was oh, oh, oh beautiful Sunday, oh, oh, oh, beautiful day. when you say, say, say, say that you love me this is my, my, my beautiful day it’s possible it faded out to “oh what a beautiful morning.” 11811 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-that-ends-with-beautiful-morning/260917/13 "2004-08-22T15:39:34Z")
If I’m understanding this question right, there was (and I vaguely remember hearing it) a rock song which concluded with a riff on the _Oklahoma_ show tune – probably by way of irony. This is SOP for a wide variety of songs, from the Loggins “I met my old lover late last night” ending with a brief riff of “Auld Lang Syne” to the Beatles’ insertion of a line from the Marseillaise near the end of “All You Need Is Love.” So the question becomes, “What rock song – and I think I can narrow it to it being by a late-80s/early-90s hair band – ends with a riff on “O What a Beautiful Morning” from Oklahoma?” ---
**Author:** ![x-ray\_vision](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/x-ray_vision/32/351_2.png) [@x-ray\_vision](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/x-ray_vision)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-that-ends-with-beautiful-morning/260917/14 "2004-08-22T16:11:06Z")
According to [url=http://burnish.net/disc/rockalittle.php]this web page: > [@](#): > > Stevie sang Oh What a Beautiful Morning at the end of Edge of Seventeen during the 4/16/86 show. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-that-ends-with-beautiful-morning/260917/15 "2004-08-22T16:23:54Z")
[“Stevie (Nicks)sang Oh What a Beautiful Morning at the end of Edge of Seventeen during the 4/16/86 show.”](http://burnish.net/disc/rockalittle.php) Re Loggins “Auld Lang Syne” Polycarp, were you possibly hinking of Dan Fogelberg? ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-that-ends-with-beautiful-morning/260917/16 "2004-08-22T16:25:35Z")
> [@x-ray vision](#): > > According to [url=http://burnish.net/disc/rockalittle.php]this web page: That’ll teach me to go make a sandwich in the middle of a post! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-that-ends-with-beautiful-morning/260917/17 "2004-08-22T16:29:37Z")
> [@Polycarp](#): > > If I’m understanding this question right, there was (and I vaguely remember hearing it) a rock song which concluded with a riff on the _Oklahoma_ show tune – probably by way of irony. This is SOP for a wide variety of songs, from the Loggins **“I met my old lover late last night” ending with a brief riff of “Auld Lang Syne”** to the Beatles’ insertion of a line from the Marseillaise near the end of “All You Need Is Love.” > > So the question becomes, “What rock song – and I think I can narrow it to it being by a late-80s/early-90s hair band – ends with a riff on “O What a Beautiful Morning” from Oklahoma?” (My bold) that isn’t Loggins. Its Dan Fogelberg. ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-that-ends-with-beautiful-morning/260917/18 "2004-08-22T16:43:36Z")
Yeah! (In a little known fact – because I just made it up – Dan Fogelburg is an illegitimate brother of Kenny and Dave Loggins! ;)) ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-that-ends-with-beautiful-morning/260917/19 "2004-08-22T17:08:58Z")
And another little known fact about the Fogelberg song is that the melody is actually **The 1812 Overture** , slowed down. : : ---
**Author:** ![ioioio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ioioio/32/316_2.png) [@ioioio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ioioio)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2004, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-that-ends-with-beautiful-morning/260917/20 "2004-08-22T19:02:01Z")
Another little known fact is that the 1812 Overture includes a couple of choral sections. There’s a reason that they are not performed very often. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-song-that-ends-with-beautiful-morning/260917.md?page=2)