Sunday September 5, 2021 “Summer Wind” Frank Sinatra

What more needs to be said, and now ladies and gentlemen, here's Frank Sinatra singing “Summer Wind” recorded and released in August 1965.

Let me just add a couple of Frank Siantra legendary pieces.  According to his last wife Barbra, he was married four times, Frank said that one of his iconic recordings “Strangers in the Night”, was “a real piece of sh!t, the worst fu$king song I have ever heard”.   The song was a number one hit for Sinatra and won Grammys for Best Male Pop Performance, Best Musical Arrangement as well as Song of the Year.  So much for Frank's judgement.

He was not as tall as he wanted to be, measuring 5’ 7'' so he wore the elevator boots that Counting Crows may be singing about in their recent release.  According to legend, in his early career as a solo artist, his agent would pay girls five dollars to go to his shows and appearances and scream, generating additional crowd enthusiasm and turning Frank into the first ‘teenage idol’ even though he was not then a teen himself

Stay safe and warm...and open the windows to let that summer wind blow through.

The summer wind came blowin' in from across the sea

It lingered there, to touch your hair and walk with me

All summer long we sang a song and then we strolled that golden sand

Two sweethearts and the summer wind

Like painted kites, those days and nights they went flyin' by

The world was new beneath a blue umbrella sky

Then softer than a piper man, one day it called to you

I lost you, I lost you to the summer wind

The autumn wind, and the winter winds they have come and gone

And still the days, those lonely days, they go on and on

And guess who sighs his lullabies through nights that never end

My fickle friend, the summer wind

The summer wind

Warm summer wind

The summer wind