Sunday Morning ( the Velvet Underground song ) - wikipedia Sunday Morning ( the Velvet Underground song ) `` Sunday Morning '' Single by The Velvet Underground from the album The Velvet Underground & Nico Released December 1966 ( 1966 - 12 ) ( single ) March 1967 ( album ) Recorded November 1966 Studio Mayfair Recording, New York City Genre Pop Length 2 : 53 Label Verve Songwriter ( s ) Lou Reed, John Cale Producer ( s ) Tom Wilson The Velvet Underground singles chronology `` All Tomorrow 's Parties '' / `` I 'll Be Your Mirror '' ( 1966 ) `` Sunday Morning '' / `` Femme Fatale '' ( 1966 ) `` White Light / White Heat '' / `` Here She Comes Now '' ( 1968 ) Audio sample file help `` Sunday Morning '' is a song by the Velvet Underground. It is the opening track on their 1967 debut album The Velvet Underground & Nico. It was also released as a single in 1966 with `` Femme Fatale ''. Contents 1 Recording 2 Personnel 3 Cover versions 4 References Recording In late 1966, `` Sunday Morning '' was the final song to be recorded for The Velvet Underground & Nico. It was requested by Tom Wilson, who thought the album needed another song with lead vocals by Nico with the potential to be a successful single. The final master tape of side one of the album shows `` Sunday Morning '' only penciled in before `` I 'm Waiting for the Man ''. In November 1966, Wilson brought the band into Mayfair Recording Studios in Manhattan. The song was written with Nico 's voice in mind by Lou Reed and John Cale on a Sunday morning. The band previously performed it live with Nico singing lead, but when it came time to record it, Lou Reed sang the lead vocal. Nico would instead sing backing vocals on the song. Aiming to create a hit for the album, `` Sunday Morning '' features noticeably more lush and professional production than the rest of the songs on the album. The song 's prominent use of celesta was the idea of John Cale, who noticed the instrument in the studio and decided to use it for the song. He also played viola and piano via overdubs and Sterling Morrison, normally the secondary guitarist, played bass, despite his dislike of the instrument. According to Reed, the song 's theme was suggested by Andy Warhol. `` Andy said, ' Why do n't you just make it a song about paranoia ? ' I thought that was great so I came up with ' Watch out, the world 's behind you, there 's always someone watching you, ' which I feel is the ultimate paranoid statement in that the world cares enough to watch you. '' Personnel Lou Reed -- lead vocals, lead guitar John Cale -- celesta, viola, piano Sterling Morrison -- bass guitar Maureen Tucker -- percussion Nico -- backing vocals Cover versions `` Sunday Morning '' has been covered by various bands, including Rusty, Villagers, Bettie Serveert, Beck, Chris Coco & Nick Cave, Nina Hagen, James, Oh - OK, Elizabeth Cook, NY Loose, the Feelies, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, the Queers, Strawberry Switchblade, Wally Pleasant, and Matthew Sweet & Susanna Hoffs. Japanese rock duo the Flare, composed of Sugizo and Yuna Katsuki, included a cover on their 2004 single `` Uetico ''. The alternative rock Japanese band the Teenage Kissers made a cover and released it on their first full album Virgin Field. The song has also been covered by Belle & Sebastian during live shows. A live version recorded by Oh - OK is compiled on The Complete Recordings. In 2015, the song was covered by Børns and Petite Meller as a duet and was released as a single. In 2009, Northern Irish pop punk / new wave band, The Undertones covered `` Sunday Morning '' for Onder Invloed, a project by Dutch journalist Matthijs van der Ven which showcases various musicians from all over the world covering their favorite songs. A cover of the song by the Doug Anthony All Stars was used in a season 1 episode of DAAS Kapital, but did not appear on the DVD set of the sci - fi sitcom due to `` contractual reasons... and because we never paid to use it in the first place, '' according to Paul McDermott. British shoegaze band The Death of Pop covered the song, changing the name to `` Sundae Mourning '', on their 2013 EP Two Thousand and Thirteen The chord progression is used in Kramer 's `` Do n't Come Around '', which includes the lyric, `` I love this song, '' presumably referring to the Velvet Underground song rather than the Kramer song. Billy Bragg and Courtney Barnett covered the song on the Australian television live music trivia quiz show, RocKwiz. In 2016, a version was recorded by Richard Barone for his Sorrows & Promises : Greenwich Village in the 1960s album, as a duet with Jenni Muldaur, who frequently sang background vocals for both Lou Reed and John Cale on their solo work. In 2017, Phish covered the song on Night 3 of their `` Bakers Dozen '' run at Madison Square Garden, which was a theme night concert celebrating Red Velvet doughnuts. References Jump up ^ `` Mayfair Recording Studios - CDs and Vinyl at Discogs ''. Discogs.com. Retrieved 2016 - 09 - 29. Jump up ^ Mark Deming ( 1967 - 03 - 12 ). `` The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground Songs, Reviews, Credits ''. AllMusic. Retrieved 2016 - 09 - 29. Jump up ^ Bockris, Victor ( 1994 ). Transformer : The Lou Reed Story. Simon & Schuster. p. 135. ISBN 0 - 684 - 80366 - 6. Jump up ^ Hoffman, Eric. `` Examinations : An Examination of John Cale ''. Mental Contagion. Retrieved 24 October 2014. When I had to play viola, Sterling had to play bass, which he hated. According to the website, the quote is from John Cale 's autobiography, What 's Welsh for Zen ( NY : St. Martin 's Press ( 2000 ). Jump up ^ Tom Pinnock ( 18 September 2012 ). `` John Cale on The Velvet Underground & Nico ''. Uncut. Retrieved 7 March 2015. Jump up ^ Bockris, p. 134 - 145 Jump up ^ `` Full Albums : The Velvet Underground & Nico - Cover Me ''. Covermesongs.com. Retrieved 2016 - 09 - 29. Jump up ^ `` RocKwiz - Courtney Barnett & Billy Bragg - Sunday Morning ''. YouTube. 2014 - 05 - 12. Retrieved 2016 - 09 - 29. The Velvet Underground & Nico Songs Side 1 : `` Sunday Morning '' `` I 'm Waiting for the Man '' `` Femme Fatale '' `` Venus in Furs '' `` Run Run Run '' `` All Tomorrow 's Parties '' Side 2 : `` Heroin '' `` There She Goes Again '' `` I 'll Be Your Mirror '' `` The Black Angel 's Death Song '' `` European Son '' The Velvet Underground & Nico White Light / White Heat The Velvet Underground Loaded Squeeze The Velvet Underground John Cale Lou Reed Sterling Morrison Moe Tucker Doug Yule Willie Alexander Angus MacLise Nico Walter Powers Billy Yule Studio albums The Velvet Underground & Nico White Light / White Heat The Velvet Underground Loaded Squeeze Live albums Live at Max 's Kansas City 1969 : The Velvet Underground Live Live MCMXCIII Final V.U. 1971 -- 1973 The Quine Tapes The Complete Matrix Tapes Box sets and out - takes VU Another View Peel Slowly and See Compilations Andy Warhol 's Velvet Underground Featuring Nico The Best of The Velvet Underground : Words and Music of Lou Reed The Best of Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground The Best of The Velvet Underground : The Millennium Collection The Very Best of the Velvet Underground Gold Songs `` After Hours '' `` All Tomorrow 's Parties '' `` European Son '' `` Femme Fatale '' `` Here She Comes Now '' `` Heroin '' `` I Heard Her Call My Name '' `` I 'll Be Your Mirror '' `` I 'm Waiting for the Man '' `` Lady Godiva 's Operation '' `` New Age '' `` Pale Blue Eyes '' `` Rock & Roll '' `` Run Run Run '' `` Sister Ray '' `` Stephanie Says '' `` Sunday Morning '' `` Sweet Jane '' `` The Black Angel 's Death Song '' `` The Gift '' `` There She Goes Again '' `` Venus in Furs '' `` White Light / White Heat '' Tribute albums Heaven & Hell Fifteen Minutes Related articles Discography Songs A Symphony of Sound Walter De Maria Exploding Plastic Inevitable Steve Sesnick Andy Warhol Tom Wilson Songs for Drella The Pizza Underground Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sunday_Morning_(The_Velvet_Underground_song)&oldid=800909292 '' Categories : The Velvet Underground songs 1966 singles Songs written by Lou Reed Song recordings produced by Tom Wilson ( record producer ) Songs written by John Cale 1966 songs Hidden categories : Articles with hAudio microformats Talk Contents About Wikipedia Čeština Français Italiano 日本 語 Polski Русский Tiếng Việt Edit links This page was last edited on 16 September 2017, at 13 : 20. 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Question: who sings sunday morning by the velvet underground
Answer: Lou Reed