Jim Walters wrote:Roger Whittaker's New World In The Morning.
Everyone in my family has loved that song since it first came out, so I was initially surprised when I first looked it up and discovered it never even Bubbled Under on the Billboard Hot 100. It did hit #12 and was on 8 weeks on the Billboard Easy Listening Charts in 1970. And it Bubbled Under on Record World's U.S. national pop chart.
In Canada, it never charted on RPM's Top Pop Singles, nor on CKVN, CFUN or CHUM. It was heavily played on CHQM, even after I arrived at the station a year after it fell out of the Billboard Easy Listening charts.
In the U.K., long after its Billboard Easy Listening chart action, it hit #17 and stayed on the British charts for 14 weeks.
An in-joke in our family was based on "The New World" being Edmonton's best Chinese restaurant until it was blown up to make way for Canada Place. The line in question is "The New World in the Morning takes so long".
All of which is a long way of saying that I thought that Jim had an interesting choice when it comes to "Election tunes".