# Chris Isaak "Name that tune" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 2, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-isaak-name-that-tune/297337 "2005-04-02T01:00:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DaveRaver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daveraver/32/1078_2.png) [@DaveRaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveRaver)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-isaak-name-that-tune/297337/1 "2005-04-02T01:00:40Z")
On Chris Isaak’s 1989 album “Heart Shaped World”, there is a song called “Blue Spanish Sky”. The last 4 notes, played by a trumpet, are very reminiscent of an older song, not by Chris Isaak. If you have the album, play the end of the song, and see if you can tell me what song that is. ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-isaak-name-that-tune/297337/2 "2005-04-02T01:40:48Z")
Those last four notes remind me of an old Frank Sinatra song called “The Summer Wind.” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-isaak-name-that-tune/297337/3 "2005-04-02T02:21:51Z")
It’s E-B-C-A. I’m not sure what Sinatra’s “Summer Wind” sounds like, but it reminds me of a movie theme from the 60’s or 70’s. “Love Story”? “Summer of '42”? Something like that… ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-isaak-name-that-tune/297337/4 "2005-04-02T02:31:08Z")
Aha! I knew it was something with summer. I think **The Scrivener** has got it: “Summer of '42.” Listen to the melody [here](http://www.nollizua.com/midi/midi_stvalentin/summer_of_42.mid). ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-isaak-name-that-tune/297337/5 "2005-04-02T02:37:13Z")
It took a few minutes to recall the movie better, but I’m pretty sure that’s the movie, with the theme by Michel Legrand. However, that doesn’t exclude the possibility that there was also a tune by Sinatra or someone else that Legrand could have built his theme around, by lifting a key melodic phrase or two… so it’s possible we’re both right. I saw something like this from yesterday… TCM aired “Where Eagles Dare,” which has a very strident, brassy, gung-ho theme. A theme lifted in part by the Pythons for the “Sir Lancelot” theme in **Monty Python and the Holy Grail**. Then again, that was satire. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DaveRaver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/daveraver/32/1078_2.png) [@DaveRaver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DaveRaver)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2005, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/chris-isaak-name-that-tune/297337/6 "2005-04-02T03:51:04Z")
Yep! Summer of '42… that’s the song! Thanks! 🙂