Summer Wind
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"Summer Wind" is a 1965 song, with music by Henry Mayer and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. A cool, nostalgic tale of a fleeting romance, it is most known for a 1966 recording by Frank Sinatra that is informed by what NPR called "a majestic sadness." [1]
By the 2000s, it was one of Sinatra's most-used recordings in various contexts.
Also in the 2000s it became a hit for crooner Michael Bublé, recording an arrangement with long-time producer and collaborator David Foster, who heralds it as one of the all time greatest jazz standards ever written.
It featured on the 2003 film Matchstick Men.
On Friday June 3, 2005 it became the last song played by oldies radio station WCBS-FM in New York before the station became Jack FM.
In 2006 James Dean Bradfield of Manic Street Preachers covered Summer Wind released as a b-side on the An English Gentleman single.
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