"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." blank">http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3929906
By the 2000s, it was one of Sinatra's most-used recordings in various contexts, including a mid-2000s television ad campaign for _Mastercard and Major League Baseball.
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.
The song can also be found in the sixth season premiere episode of The Simpsons, "Bart of Darkness", sung by Martin Prince at the end of the show.
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. When the station switched back to CBS-FM on Thursday, July 12, 2007, Jack FM's last song, "Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey was interrupted mid-song at 12:43pm EST, and what continued with CBS-FM's broadcast of Sinatra's rendition of "Summer Wind".
In 2006 James Dean Bradfield of Manic Street Preachers covered "Summer Wind" released as a b-side on the An English Gentleman UK CD single.
On May 3, 2006 "Summer Wind" was featured in the first episode of the Bob Dylan radio program Theme Time Radio Hour.
