Morningtown Ride

Morningtown Ride

From The Seekers farewell concert july 7 1968 in London.

This lovely song for children was composed by an American singer/songwriter called Malvina Reynolds(1900-1978) in 1957..

"Morningtown Ride" is a lullaby, written and performed by Malvina Reynolds in 1957, and covered by a number of artists. It tells the comforting story of the journey through nighttime made by all the "little travellers" (children), on board a train, with the Sandman as guard.^[1]

The Seekers version

The song was performed by The Seekers with Bobby Richards and his Orchestra on the 1964 album Hide and Seekers (W&G Records WG-B-2362).^[2] It was subsequently re-recorded and released as a single in 1966 (Columbia DB 8060),^[3] produced by Tom Springfield.^[4]

The song spent 15 weeks on the UK's Record Retailer chart, reaching No. 2 on 28 December 1966.=======================

In the United States, the song spent 7 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching No. 44,^[5]

while reaching No. 13 on Billboard's Easy Listening chart.^[6][7] The song also reached No. 2

on the Irish Singles Chart,^[8] No. 4 in Malaysia,^[9] and No. 9 in South Africa.^[10]

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