Released: October 24, 1978

Featuring: Lena Horne Mabel King Richard Pryor Thelma Carpenter Theresa merritt Michael Jackson Nipsey Russell Ted Ross

Songwriter: Luther Vandross

Producer: Quincy Jones Tom Bahler

[Verse 1]
Everybody look around
'Cause there's a reason to rejoice you see
Everybody come out
And let's commence to singing joyfully

[Diana Ross]
Everybody look up
And feel the hope that we've been waiting on

[All]
Everybody's glad
Because our silent fear and dread is gone

[Pre-Chorus]
Freedom, you see, has got our hearts singing so joyfully
Just look about, you owe it to yourself to check it out

[Chorus - 2x]
Can't you feel a brand new day?
Can't you feel a brand new day?

[Verse 2: Ted Ross]
Everybody be glad
Because the sun is shining just for us

[Diana Ross]
Everybody wake up
Into the morning, into happiness

[Michael Jackson]
Hello world
It's like a different way of livin' now

[Nipsey Russell]
And thank you world

[Diana Ross]
We always knew that we'd be free somehow

[Pre-Chorus 2]
In harmony, and show the world that we've got liberty
It's such a change, for us to live so independently
Freedom, you see, has got our hearts singing so joyfully
Just look about, you owe it to yourself to check it out

[Chorus]
Can't you feel a brand new day?
Can't you feel a brand new day?

[Verse 2: Diana Ross (All)]
Everybody be glad (be glad)
Because the sun is shining just for us (yes it is)
Everybody wake up (wake up)
Into the morning, into happiness (that's right)
Hello world, it's like a different way of living now

[Nipsey Russell]
Thank you world

[Diana Ross]
We always knew that we'd be free somehow

[Pre-Chorus 2]
In harmony, and show the world that we've got liberty
It's such a change, for us to live so independently
Freedom, you see, has got our hearts singing so joyfully
Just look about, you owe it to yourself to check it out
You owe it to yourself to check it out

[Chorus - 2x]
Can't you feel a brand new day?
Can't you feel a brand new day?

Diana Ross

Diana Ross is an American singer, songwriter, actress and record producer.

She rose to fame as the lead singer of The Supremes, which, during the 1960s, became Motown’s most successful act and is to this day America’s most successful vocal group as well as one of the world’s best-selling girl groups of all time. Departing from the Supremes in 1970, Ross released her debut solo album, Diana Ross, which contained the hits “Reach Out and Touch (Somebody’s Hand)” and the #1 hit “Ain’t No Mountain High Enough”.

She released the album Touch Me in the Morning in 1973. Its title track reached #1, becoming her second solo hit.