And Enough Of Those Severe Winds And All Of he Havoc They Cause, Please!
A Summer Song Posted with a Commentary by Doug Draper
August 1st, 2026
Sixty years ago this August, when groups like The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Yardbirds and The Lovin’ Spoonful and singers like Donovan, Petula Clark and Stevie Wonder had big hits on the Billboard charts, a relatively old guy from my parents younger years also broke through with a hit song called ‘Summer Wind’.
A huge Beatles fan back then, I found myself liking this song. There was something about it and the way Frank Sinatra, who by then was a legendary singer with a recording career stretching back through the 1940s and 50s, sang it that made me feel good and made me imagine walking along a sandy beach on Cape Cod or even one of our own beaches along Lake Erie with a light breeze embracing me on a warm summer day.
Sixty years later, there is still something nice about that song so I thought I would share it with you on this first day of August, 2026. To hear it and watch a video that accompanies it, click on the screen immediately below –
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Hope you have some enjoyable times during the last half of summer – Doug Draper, Niagara At Large, with memories of my mother and father who remained big Frank Sinatra fans while I was driving them crazy spinning those Beatles records.
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