( The ) Summer Wind

Music by Henry Mayer  ( Heinz Meier )

( original Danish lyrics by Hans Bradtke ) 1965

English lyrics Johnny Mercer

 

Perry Como with The Anita Kerr Quartet

Arranged by Anita Kerr

Produced by Chet Atkins

 

Recorded in RCA Victor's "Nashville Sound" Studio, 

Nashville, Tennessee

Recording Engineer: Chuck Seitz and William Vandevort ( not confirmed )

Recorded in Stereo

Final Recording Time 2:51

 

Recorded  June 23rd, 1965   ~ Matrix No. SPA4 2557 Take 1 +

Single release: RCA-45RPM-47-8636

Single Flip Side: "Oowee, Oowee"

 

Album issue: RCA-45RPM EP "How Beautiful the World Can Be" TP-326 PORTUGAL MONO

Album issue: TELDEC-LP12 "Best of Perry Como" RCA GERMANY LSP-10075 (e) 1975

Album issue: RCA-GERMANY-LP12 "A Portrait in Music" SRS-586 Circa 1978

 

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Notes: ~ Originally a Danish language song. First U.S. recording with English lyrics was

by Wayne Newton on Capitol. Frank Sinatra recorded the song for Reprise in 1966.

 

Chronological Notes: In June, 1965, Perry recorded six songs in a Nashville follow-up session

to his successful first album "The Scene Changes" recorded at the beginning of that year.

For one reason or another, an album never resulted from these sessions and he returned to New York

in the Fall of 1965 for his first recordings with Nick Perito and A&R Producer Andy Wiswell, where two

songs of the Nashville recorded songs "Bye, Bye Little Girl" and "Meet Me At The Altar" were re- recorded

in Webster Hall on November 12th, but this time with Nick Perito conducting and The Ray Charles Singers

singing background. Of the six songs recorded in Nashville, only two were released as a single during the

summer of 1965, "Oowee, Oowee" and it's flip side "Summer Wind" charting in the United States at No. 88.

Perry never recorded again with Anita Kerr or the very distinctive Anita Kerr Quartet.

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