The Green Leaves of Summer
The Green Leaves of Summer is a song by Dimitri Tiomkin (music) and Paul Francis Webster released in 1960.
history
Tiomkin and Francis Webster wrote The Green Leaves of Summer for the 1960 film Alamo, directed by John Wayne , who also stars. The song is featured in the film by folk band The Brothers Four and received an Oscar nomination for Best Song in 1961 . The version of the Brothers Four reached number 65 on the US pop charts.
The song text reminds of the time of sowing and the time of ripening and also that "the green leaves of summer" call him (the soldier) home to resume his daily activities, planting as well as plowing, courting his girl or assisting his wife with childbirth.
The song was recorded in numerous cover versions from 1960 ; Tom Lord lists 34 versions of the song in the field of jazz , u. a. in the 1960s by Tex Beneke , Sarah Vaughan / Billy May , Toots Thielemans , Sil Austin , the Spree City Stompers , Johnny Smith , Maurice Vander , Manny Albam , Stan Kenton , Kenny Ball , Les Elgart , Hampton Hawes , King Fleming , Sarah Vaughan and Wes Montgomery . Other versions of the song also recorded Ray Conniff , Mahalia Jackson , Ennio Morricone , Mantovani , Hank Snow / Chet Atkins , Patti Page , Eddy Arnold , Nelson Riddle and Herb Alpert . It was used as film music again in the version by Nick Perito in Quentin Tarantino's film Inglourious Basterds (2009).
Web links
- Inclusion in the catalog of the German National Library: DNB 352828390
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dimitri Tiomkin: The Alamo (Original Soundtrack) on Allmusic (English)
- ^ The 1961 Oscars in the Internet Movie Data Base
- ^ Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1994, p. 70
- ↑ http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/g/greenleavesofsummer.shtml
- ↑ The version by Kenny Ball, published in the USA on Kapp 460, reached number 87 on the Billboard Pop Charts. Whitburn, Joel: Top Pop Singles 1955-1993. Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin: Record Research Ltd., 1994, p. 30; in Great Britain the single reached number 7, cf. Nugent, Stephen / Fowler, Anne / Fowler, Pete: Chart Log of American / British Top 20 Hits, 1955-1974 . In: Gillett, Charlie / Frith, Simon (eds.): Rock File 4 . Frogmore, St. Albans: Panther Books, 1976, p. 77
- ↑ Tom Lord: The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 28, 2014)
- ↑ The Ray Conniff Singers: Somebody Loves Me on Allmusic (English)
- ↑ Mahalia Jackson: Come on Children Let's Sing: Great Songs of Love and Faith on Allmusic (English)
- ↑ Mantovani: Exodus and Other Great Themes at Allmusic (English)
- ↑ Hank Snow: The Singing Ranger, Vol. 3 at Allmusic (English)
- ↑ Patti Page: Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte / Gentle on My Mind at Allmusic (English)
- ↑ Eddy Arnold: Our Man Down South on Allmusic (English)
- ↑ Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass: Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass, Vol. 2 at Allmusic (English)
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0361748/soundtrack