#Merrilee rush movie

What was the most creatively inspiring thing about Seattle’s music community when you were coming up as an artist? So, you just back off and use proper technique and those polyps went away. When I finally took singing lessons, I had already started getting polyps on my vocal chords. So, there was a lot of strain on the voice. I was doing teenage dances for three hours a night and we played as loud as we could and we had to sing over that. Of course, we pushed everything in the 60s. Resonating tone over the palate and not pushing. Was there a technique you learned in those lessons that opened things up for you? But I didn’t think I was very good actually until I took singing lessons in the early 70s. But I didn’t really think I was very good until later on in the late 60s – it finally took hold. I started out as a piano player and I was not a great – well, you know, I loved singing harmony and choruses and stuff. When did you know you had real talent as a singer? We caught up with Rush, who recently turned 75, to talk about her origins as an artist in the Northwest, how she came to sing the iconic track and what she learned throughout her career.

#Merrilee rush movie

Rush, who came up in the Emerald City, singing popular teenage dances in local venues, lends her giant, golden voice to the track, which has since been placed in television and movie soundtracks like 1978’s Fingers, starring Harvey Keitel. The song, composed in 1966 and released in 1968, rocketed up the charts and has since been recorded by dozens (read: countless) of other artists. Just over 50 years ago, the song, “Angel of the Morning,” hit the national airwaves and turned Seattle’s Merrilee Rush into a household name.