Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer

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"Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer"
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Single by Stevie Wonder
from the album Where I'm Coming From
B-side(s) We Can Work It Out
Released 1971
Genre R&B ballad
Length 2:56
Label Tamla
Writer(s) Stevie Wonder, Syreeta Wright
Producer(s) Stevie Wonder
Chart positions
Stevie Wonder singles chronology
Heaven Help Us All
(1970)
Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer
(1971)
If You Really Love Me
(1971)

"Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer" is a 1971 song by Stevie Wonder. It comes from his album Where I'm Coming From. The song is a ballad, describing a failed relationship using the metaphor of changing seasons. Co-written by Syreeta Wright and released on Tamla 54202 in 1971 as the flip side of "We Can Work It Out, the single stalled at #78 on the Billboard Hot 100, but it remains one of Stevie Wonder's most popular ballads to this day. The song was remade by Joan Baez on her 1975 album Diamonds and Rust. It was also remade by Three Dog Night.