"Singing a Song in the Morning" (originally titled "Religious Experience") was the first solo single released by Kevin Ayers, one of the founding members of the band Soft Machine.

Syd Barrett, recently departed from Pink Floyd, played guitar on the session, but his part was left off the mix of the 1970 single.

Members of Soft Machine had recorded on Barrett's first solo album, The Madcap Laughs.

[1] It was around this time that Barrett recorded the guitar part for Ayers on this track.

The version with Barrett has a third guitar – a six string electric – playing along) Part of the lyrics of "Singing a Song in the Morning" were adapted by Robert Wyatt in the composition "Moon in June", a suite which appeared on Third, the Soft Machine album released in June 1970.