Henry Lee Summer

Henry Lee Summer (born Henry Lee Swartz on July 5, 1955 in Brazil , Indiana ) is an American AOR singer who had two top 20 hits in the late 1980s .

Career

Henry Lee Summer, who began singing and playing drums as a teenager , also taught himself to play the guitar and piano . In 1982 First Step Records gave him a musical calling card for the music industry in the form of a single release . He still had to realize his first two LPs and two singles from them on his Majestic label , which he ran together with the manager . Due to tireless touring and good sales figures (the quantities he distributed himself and adopted by Allmusic , however, differ considerably from the officially published), he came to CBS in 1987 . There he recorded a new track from his first LP and three of his second LPs and added six new songs to them. The major debut, simply titled Henry Lee Summer , was released the following year and once again secured him the award as the most popular musician in the state of Indiana and also earned him a # 56 listing on the Billboard charts . He accompanied the Doobie Brothers , Robert Palmer , 38 Special , Chicago and Stevie Ray Vaughan on tour sections . At a show in Indianapolis that he opened for John Mellencamp , he played in front of 40,000 people. On July 8, 1988, he was a guest on David Letterman's late night show . In July 1989 the pre-release Hey Baby from the self-produced album I've Got Everything came out. It was able to surpass the success of the top 20 single I Wish I Had a Girl . The CBS sub-label Epic wrote the 1991 album Way Past Midnight , on which the AOR greats Stan Bush and Michael Bolton contributed, and the single Till Somebody Loves You , before CBS reorganized itself as Sony Music and released the album Slamdunk in 1993 . Summer had some of his songs already soundtracks can accommodate, it was in the movie Sniper two, namely Medicine Man and as a CD single available Turn It Up . Feeling himself on the way to becoming the new Bruce Springsteen , he found that fame often fades quickly as success waned instead of increased.

It was not until 1999 that Summer was able to continue the series of his publications. First the album Smoke and Mirrors was released by Moon Pie Records and finally the live double CD Live , which is based on three concerts recorded in August 1999. The album Big Drum was released in 2001 as a self-release . Since 2006, the father of four has made a name for himself mainly by violating the Narcotics Act and other related crimes.

style

Thomas Kupfer from Rock Hard said that Summer was in the tradition of the American AOR songwriters and shook “one loose, fluffy AOR song after the other from the wrist”, but was still “a harder version of musicians like Michael Bolton [... ] or Desmond Child ”. For Andreas Kraatz from Musikexpress , Summer is a “slippery chart-squint” and for Dirk Schreiber from Metal Hammer it is simply “wimpy”.

Discography

Studio albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		US
1988	Henry Lee Summer	US56 (23 weeks) US	First published: 1988
1989	I've got everything	US78 (17 weeks) US	First published: 1989

more publishments

• 1984: Stay with Me
• 1986: Time for Big Fun
• 1991: Way Past Midnight
• 1993: Slamdunk
• 1999: Smoke and Mirrors
• 1999: Live
• 2001: Big Drum
• 2006: In Concert with Henry Lee Summers

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		US
1988	I Wish I Had a Girl Henry Lee Summer	US20 (18 weeks) US	First published: January 1988
	Darlin 'Danielle Don't Henry Lee Summer	US57 (8 weeks) US	First published: May 1988
	Hands On the Radio Henry Lee Summer	US85 (3 weeks) US	First published: September 1988
1989	Hey baby I've got everything	US18 (18 weeks) US	First published: May 1989
1991	Till Somebody Loves You Way Past Midnight	US51 (10 weeks) US	First published: July 1991

More singles

• 1982: Sweet Love / Fool
• 1985: Got No Money / Santa You Owe Me
• 1986: Time for Big Fun / Down on the Farm
• 1988: Wing Tip Shoes
• 1988: Lovin 'Man
• 1988: Just Another Day
• 1989: Something is Missing
• 1989: Treat Her Like a Lady / Don't Leave
• 1991: Tonight
• 1992: Turn It Up
• 1993: Ain't That Love

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Henry Lee Summer. Official website. Bio. In: henryleesummer.com. Retrieved December 27, 2014 . 
2. ^ Eleanor Ditzel: Henry Lee Summer. Artist Biography. In: allmusic.com. Retrieved December 27, 2014 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b} CBS (Ed.): CBS-Blitzinformation. Henry Lee Summer . (undated [1988], laundry slip for the single I Wish I Had a Girl ).
4. ^ ^{A b} Henry Lee Summer to rock at Nick's. In: jconline.com. December 17, 2010, accessed December 27, 2014 . 
5. ^ Late Night (D Letterman) Music only. Late Night with David Letterman. In: rockandrollondvd.com. Retrieved December 27, 2014 . 
6. ↑ ^{a b c} David Lindquist: Music helps rocker Summer keep drug demons at bay. In: goshnews.com. The Indianapolis Star Associated Press, accessed December 27, 2014 . 
7. ↑ Henry Lee Summer. Biography. (No longer available online.) In: rockdetector.com. Archived from the original on December 27, 2014 ; accessed on December 27, 2014 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
8. ↑ ^{a b} Scott Swan: Henry Lee Summer talks about drug addiction. Eyewitness News. In: wthr.com. February 16, 2011, accessed December 27, 2014 . 
9. ↑ Thomas Kupfer: Henry Lee Summer. Way Past Midnight . In: Rock Hard . No. 57 , Jan 1992, Record Review, pp. 72 .
10. ^ Andreas Kraatz: Kim Mitchell. Rockland (WEA) . In: Musikexpress . No. 405 , October 1989, Rock, Pop, pp. 106 .
11. ↑ Dirk Schreiber: Iron Eagle II. Soundtrack . In: Metal Hammer / Crash . April 1989, p. 46 .
12. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: US

Web links

• Official website
• Henry Lee Summer at Discogs (English)
• Henry Lee Summer at Allmusic (English)