The Green Leaves of Summer

The Green Leaves of Summer is a song by Dimitri Tiomkin (music) and Paul Francis Webster, which was published in 1960.

Tiomkin and Francis Webster wrote The Green Leaves of Summer for the movie Alamo (1960 ), directed by John Wayne, who also plays the main role. The song will be presented in the film of the folk group The Brothers Four and received a 1961 Oscar nomination for Best Song.

The lyrics are reminiscent of the time of sowing and at the time of the tire and also that " the green leaves of summer " ( the soldiers) to call him back home to resume his normal activities again, the plants as well as plowing, his girl to court or to assist his wife in childbirth.

The song has been recorded in numerous cover versions from 1960; Tom Lord lists only 34 versions of the song in the field of jazz, including 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 and Wes Montgomery. Other versions of the song also took Ray Conniff, Mahalia Jackson, Ennio Morricone, Mantovani, Hank Snow / Chet Atkins, Patti Page, Eddy Arnold, Nelson Riddle and Herb Alpert on. Use as film music, he found in the version of Nick Perito in Quentin Tarantino 's Inglourious Basterds ( 2009).