Morning Coffee

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Released January 28, 1998 Genre J-Pop

Format CD Single, CD+DVD, Single V

Recorded 1998

Label Zetima

Producer Tsunku

Morning Musume Singles Chronology

Previous: Ai no Tane Demo Single

(1997)

Next: Summer Night Town 2nd Single (1998)

]] Morning Coffee (モーニングコーヒー) is a song by J-pop idol group Morning Musume, released as their first official single on as an 8 cm CD. It sold a total of 200,790 copies. In 2004 It was re-released as part of the Early Single Box and again in 2005 as a 12 cm CD. Lead vocalist of this single was Abe Natsumi.

Early on, Tsunku had decided that Iida Kaori was going to be being the lead vocalist. Before the recording on the second day, Tsunku changed his mind and told the group that he was going to change the lead vocals to Abe Natsumi instead.

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Track listing

 * 1) Morning Coffee
 * 2) Ai no Tane
 * 3) Morning Coffee (Instrumental)



12 cm CD (Early Single Box and individual release)

 * 1) Morning Coffee
 * 2) Ai no Tane
 * 3) Morning Coffee (Instrumental)
 * 4) Morning Coffee (Unreleased "B♭" Version)

Members at time of single

 * 1st Gen: Nakazawa Yuuko, Ishiguro Aya, Iida Kaori, Abe Natsumi, Fukuda Asuka

Concert performances

 * Hello! First Live at Shibuya Kohkaido
 * Hello! Project Happy New Year '99
 * Morning Musume Memory Seishun no Hikari
 * Hello! Project '99
 * Hello! Project Happy New Year 2000
 * Morning Musume First Live at Budokan ~Dancing Love Site 2000 Haru~
 * Morning Musume Live Revolution 21 Haru
 * Morning Musume Concert Tour 2002 Haru "Love Is Alive!" (2002 Version)
 * Morning Musume Concert Tour 2003 "15nin de Non Stop!" (by Iida Kaori and Abe Natsumi)
 * Morning Musume Sakura Gumi Hatsukouen ~Sakura Saku~ (by Morning Musume Sakura Gumi)
 * Hello! Project 2005 Winter All-Stars Dairanbu ~A Happy New Power! Iida Kaori Sotsugyo Special~ (by Iida Kaori, Saito Hitomi,Kimura Asami, Saito Miuna, Umeda Erika, Nakazawa Yuko, Yasuda Kei, Inaba Atsuko,Ayaka Kimura, and Sugaya Risako)
 * Hello! Project Akagumi (by Iida Kaori, Umeda Erika, Kimura Asami, Saito Hitomi, and Miuna)
 * Hello! Project Shirogumi (by Nakazawa Yuko, Ayaka Kimura, Inaba Atsuko, Sugaya Risako, and Yasuda Kei)
 * Morning Musume Concert Tour 2005 Haru - Dai 6 kan Hit Mankai (2002 Version, by Ishikawa Rika, Konno Asami, Kamei Eri, and Fujimoto Miki)
 * Nochiura Natsumi Concert Tour 2005 Haru "Triangle Energy" (2002 Version, by Abe Natsumi and Goto Maki)
 * Morning Musume Tanjou 10nen Kinentai Concert Tour 2007 Natsu ~Thank You My Dearest~

TV performances

 * 1998-02-24 Utaban
 * 1998-02-xx Music Station
 * 1998-02-xx Hey! Hey! Hey!
 * 2000-10-08 Hello! Morning Episode 027 (Last Phrase Karaoke)

Oricon Rank and Sales
Total sales: 200,790

Trivia

 * This was the first Morning Musume single with an English name