THE MORNING AFTER – MAUREEN MCGOVERN

Chart performance:

Week	Position	Movement	Comments
23-Mar-73	18	New
30-Mar-73	20	-2
06-Apr-73	14	+6	Biggest climber/Star rater
13-Apr-73	9	+5	Biggest climber/Star rater
20-Apr-73	8	+1
27-Apr-73	10	-2
04-May-73	7	+3
11-May-73	6	+1
18-May-73	11	-5	Biggest faller
25-May-73	6	+5	Star rater
01-Jun-73	4	+2	Peak
08-Jun-73	5	-1
15-Jun-73	6	-1
22-Jun-73	6	0
29-Jun-73	8	-2
06-Jul-73	7	+1
13-Jul-73	12	-5	Biggest faller
20-Jul-73	18	-6	Biggest faller

Written by: Joel Hirschhorn & Al Kasha
Produced by: Carl Maduri
South African record label (unless otherwise stated): Gallo

Hit number for artist	1
Peak position	4
Weeks	18
Biggest climber awards	2
Star rater climbs	3
Biggest faller awards	4
Top 20 points	203
Overall Top 20 points ranking	=366
Top 20 points ranking for the artist	1
Top 30 Points	383
Overall Top 30 points ranking	=320
Top 30 points ranking for the artist	1

Annual ranking:

1973

=18

Other chart success:

Argentina	5
Australia	1
Canada	4
US	1
Zimbabwe	1

SA Radio charts:

LM Radio

1

The song was taken from the film ‘The Poseidon Adventure’ which starred Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine and Shelley Winters. It would win the Best Original Song Oscar award. The original lyric of the song was ‘Why must there be a morning after’ but the record label wanted the more positive ‘there’s got to be a morning after’. The version in the film was performed by the character Nonnie which was played by Carol Lynley, but the singing was actually done by Renee Armand. It was following the success of the film that Maureen McGovern recorded her version.

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Artist link: Maureen McGovern

MAUREEN MCGOVERN (US)

Born: 27 July 1949
Full name: Maureen Therese McGovern

Maureen was born in Youngstown, Ohio, a city about halfway between Cleveland and Pittsburgh. Her father was in a singing quartet and they would practice at the McGovern home. This would, in part, inspire Maureen to become a singer and her family have noted that, as a small child, she would sing herself to sleep with songs she had heard on the radio. When she finished school, she would work as a secretary while singing in a local folk band called Sweet Rain in the evenings. A demo of her singing came to the attention of Russ Regan, the head of 20^th Century Records. At the time Russ was looking for someone to record a version of the song ‘The Morning After’ from the film ‘The Poseidon Adventure’. The version in the film was performed by the character Nonnie which was played by Carol Lynley. She would lip sync the lyrics to the soundtrack sung by a singer called Renee Armand. McGovern’s version was the one that was released to coincide with the film and it would spend 2 weeks at the top of the US charts. McGovern would go on to see 5 further US hits, but only 1 of those would make the top 20 of the charts and that was ‘Different Worlds’ which was the theme tune to a TV show called ‘Angie’.

Date of entry	Song	Peak (weeks at 1)	Weeks
23-Mar-1973	The Morning After	4	18
		Total hits	1
		Total weeks	18

Biggest climber awards	2
Star rater climbs	3
Biggest fallers	4
Weeks with oldest in the charts	0
Longest run in the charts (weeks)	18
Weeks with more than 1 in the charts	0
Biggest gap between hits (weeks)	0
Top 30 points ranking	=444
Top 20 points ranking	=428
Top 30 points	383
Top 20 points	203