New World in the Morning...
It was 1971 when Kenyan-born British singer Roger Whitaker released his “New World in the Morning” album. While Whitaker was not known for his current-social-consciousness when writing lyrics, playing instead to themes of nostalgia and lost loves, his “New World in the Morning” joined the political turmoil of the 1960s with eschatological hopes resident in every human heart. He begins with the news of the day: “Everybody talks about a new world in the morning.” But that buzz doesn’t resonate in his day-at-a-time easy-going manner: “I, myself don't talk about a new world in the morning.