Summer Wind

 First full day of summer, so this song seems like an appropriate one. I love Frank's version, of course, but Willie lets the great Johnny Mercer lyrics really breathe. Mercer has to be one of my top 3 songwriters of the Songbook era. For a long time he was noted for comical lyrics and novelty songs--Lazy Bones, I'm an Old Cowhand--but he wrote some beautiful love songs along the way (my favorite, I Thought about You). Late in his career his tone became elegiac and wistful, as with Moon River, Days of Wine and Roses, and Summer Wind.