Silent Morning
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| "Silent Morning" | ||||
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| Single by Noel | ||||
| from the album Noel | ||||
| Released | 1987 | |||
| Genre | Latin hip hop[1] | |||
| Length | 4:26 (LP version) | |||
| Label | 4th & B'way | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Noel Pagan | |||
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"Silent Morning" is the debut single by American singer Noel Pagan, released from his 1987 debut album Noel. It is Noel's most successful single; on November 14, 1987, it reached number 47 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. "Silent Morning" was present on the Hot 100 for 22 weeks.[2]
The song came about after Noel was discovered by a man looking for singers, who invited him to a studio to record a song. While there, and with Noel having never written a song, the man gave advice for Noel to write about what he was feeling. The song that Noel recorded was originally called "Spanish Morning". After a few weeks of recording, the man disappeared. At that time, Noel worked as assistant bartender at a club, only to discover that his boss had good contacts, and knew artists like David Bowie and Mick Jagger. Noel decided to record a demo and handed it to his boss. Some weeks later Noel's boss said he had shown the song to the manager of a label, and that he liked the song but not the lyrics, and asked Noel to change them. Noel rewrote the song, and called it "Silent Morning".[3]
Spin listed the recording of "Silent Morning" as the seventh of ten "Great Moments in Recording Studio History," due to an alleged event in which "producer Aaron Hanson (of Hanson & Davis) put a gun to Noel's head and threatened to blow his head off if he didn't sing the song Hanson's way."[4]