I Woke Up in Love This Morning by Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons

I call it my “Babies, Blood and Boobs” book, because the short stories deal with those issues. I’ve written a mini short story collection for Middle Grade/YA readers called I Woke Up In Love This Morning, which has done quite well on Amazon. I know it’s a lot for a girl to handle, but I always want to read about people who have survived the worst yet somehow manages to survive-maybe even thrive-when the world is against you. My latest e-book is Ella Bella, a YA novel that tells the story of Ella Drake, a girl whose father dies (I’m not giving anything away this happens in the first pages!) then her mother loses her job a month later. Along with its B-side 'Twenty-Four Hours a Day,' both were included on third LP SOUND MAGAZINE, also issued July 1971, peaking on the album charts at number 9.Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons is the author of Ella Bella, Take What You Got And Fly With It, and I Woke Up In Love This Morning. Russell Brown, issued July 1971, peaking at number 13 on the Billboard charts (later heard in 'A Tale of Two Hamsters'). The featured song is the current fourth single, 'I Woke Up in Love This Morning,' composed by Irwin Levine and L. Robyn Millan had played the 16 year old Vanessa Russell in the actual pilot for THE MONKEES ('Here Come the Monkees'), but was not required to sing. Too much off key warbling to really enjoy this one, but Jack Burns' rendition of 'I Left My Heart in San Francisco' (sha bop, sha bop) is a comic gem (best remembered as half a comedy team with Avery Schreiber). It's left up to Reuben to come up with a solution, which actually earns Dora a standing ovation from her all male audience. Shirley tries to explain the problem, and blushes when her son accuses her of giving him 'the facts of life!' Stillman Kelly reveals himself to be part of a vocal group from the 50s that was popular for about three weeks, proudly boasting that he taught his daughter everything he knows (Shirley: 'she's more talented than he is!'). The gorgeous but toneless Dora offers up a vocal that makes every Partridge cringe, except of course for Keith, who gazes at her loveliness and hears what he wants to hear. Reuben has promised radio promoter Stillman Kelly (Jack Burns) that the Partridges would back his daughter Dora (Robyn Millan) in a special benefit performance on a local Air Force base. 'Dora, Dora, Dora' opened the second season, introducing Brian Forster as the new Chris, replacing the departed Jeremy Gelbwaks, and new theme song, a more folky arrangement of 'When We're Singin'' (Farrell-Hilderbrand), now titled 'Come On Get Happy,' new lyrics composed by Danny Janssen.

I Woke Up in Love This Morning by Jennifer Kathleen Gibbons