The Big Apple: “I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I’m doing”

A plaque remaining from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem.

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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.

Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.

Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.

Also listen to a 1937 "The Big Apple" song by Ozzie Nelson and his Orchestra. See a 1929 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald and a 1931 photo of John J. Fitz Gerald.

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Entry from August 01, 2012

“I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I’m doing”

"Exercise in the morning before your brain figures out what you’re doing” is a saying that has been printed on several posters. “I have to exercise early in the morning before my brain figures out what I am doing” is a quotation that has been attributed on many websites to exercise expert Marsha Doble; it been cited in print since at least 1998.

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Quotations about Exercise
I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I’m doing. ~Marsha Doble

Fitness and Exercise
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I have to exercise early in the morning before my brain figures out what I am doing. (Marsha Doble)

ChaCha
Marsha Doble is a famous motivational speaker and exercise guru. She has helped many people lose weight and get fit.

Google News Archive
25 August 1998, Cedartown (GA) Standard, Cedartown Plus, pg. 7, col. 1:
I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I’m doing.
-- Marsha Doble

24 January 2000, The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA), Smiley Anders column:
“I have to exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I’m doing.”

Google Books
The 2,548 Wittiest Things Anybody Ever Said
By Robert Byrne
New York, NY: Touchstone
2012
No. 1,177
I exercise in the morning before my brain figures out what I’m doing. —Marsha Doble

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