“Early In The Morning” is Larry Santos' lost, obscure second single, taken from both his 1975 self-titled album and his 1976 follow-up, “You Are Everything I Need”. It is both the first track on side 1 from his
1975 self-titled album and and the seventh track on side 2 from his 1976 follow-up, “You Are Everything I Need”, both produced by the late Detroit soul producer, Don Davis. This Christian-flavored acoustic soft pop ballad, “Early In The Morning” was missed out on the Billboard Hot 100 pop music charts, easy listening music charts and adult contemporary music charts, plus it was never played on an oldies radio station, called WCBS-FM nor played on an easy listening radio station, called WLTW Lite FM other pop radio stations.
Also, the early morning music video as the first one of the same song and the female dancers dancing gracefully into daylight music video as the second one of the same song were never played on MTV Music Television or VH-1 Video Hits One.
from
You Are Everything I Need,
track released October 1, 1976
Music & Lyrics by Larry Santos
Arranged By – Bobby Eaton
Art Direction, Design – Gribbitt!
Backing Vocals – Honey
Bass – David Hood, Pat Burrows, Roderick Chandler
Drums – Ken Krogol, Richard Allen, Roger Hawkins
Engineer – Ellis Bishop
Engineer, Remix – Jim Vitti, Ken Sands
Guitar – Eddie Hinton, Eddie Willis, Jimmy Johnson, Norman Warner, Pete Carr, Robert Goodsite, Robert White
Horns – Carl Austin
Keyboards – Barry Beckett, Earl Van Dyke, Larry Santos, Rudy Robinson
Mastered By – Allen Zentz
Photography By – Gerald Farber
Producer, Remix – Don Davis
Strings – Detroit Fisher Theatre Strings
Synthesizer [Arp] – Larry Santos