Peter Nero - Summer of '42

[praline753]

Magnifique!!!merci

[helena6810]

bello,genial gracias peter!!!

[MsDeCharme]

i miss this vid:)

[noidelaplatja]

This is exactly what would make me HATE MUSIC, these kind of players "Liberace style", destroying songs with all those arppeggios up and down the keyboard constantly. Makes you think how they can sell millions of copies. Are people deaf??

Listen Bill Evans version and music turns to be lovely.

[dragontooth81]

@noidelaplatja This version wasnt that bad, but I know what you mean... People like to prove something and ruin songs by running up and down the keyboard like a jack rabbit on crack. With a song like this, less is more and simplicity wins every time. Its a simple, romantic tune and should be simply played... I'm looking for a nice version of this piece to play but this one aint it.. I will check out Bill Evans next.. thanks

[dragontooth81]

@noidelaplatja Except, I cant find a Bill Evans verson of this on youtube

[pianoplaylist]

@dragontooth81 I can't find it either and I used different search engines. Since Google owns YT, they probably don't return results for YT's biggest competitors. Bill Evans plays from the soul. His music is simple and very heartfelt.  I go for the more spectacularly dazzling style. To each his or her own, I guess. Cheers to all.

[noidelaplatja]

@dragontooth81 Check the Hank Jones version, is his last recording and uploaded in YT: Completely inspired in Bill Evans 75 version. Not a single arpeggio, grabs all the feeling of the song and the film

[pianoplaylist]

@noidelaplatja I didn't hear any big, hairy, ol' obtrusive arpeggios in this piece. I thought the ones he added were well-placed, not overly done, and not an excessive amount of them. Maybe someone can share Bill Evans's Summer of '42 with us. His jazz is soothing.

[noidelaplatja]

@pianoplaylist They are not obtrusive, but anybody with some practice can arpeggiate over chord tones, one after each other from begining to end. But, have they really something to say? I'll try to upload the Bill Evans version one of this days but check the Hank Jones version, it's completely inspired in Bill Evans.

BTW, Michel Legrands version is also overloaded with arpeggios. He destroys his own song!!! Legrand has been always an inspired composer but not very subtile jazzman.

[plquick01]

Peter Nero plays with his heart and sole. Just he did with his composition of "Sunday in New York".

[Jackkennedy68]

Carl Doy still has the best piano version. Pity it's impossible to find on the web.

[JonEngland]

@Jackkennedy68 have you tried searching pianoplaylist - the gentleman behind pianoplaylist has much of Carl Doy's music

[CAridge2008]

God I wish that I coiuld play piano with that kind of mastery! Nero's not a "high brow" classical pianist but he's got an amazing touch.

[ftsjr]

I too, remember this great album. This is probably the best version I've ever heard of this song (with or without lyrics). Nero's piano style brings out all the wistfulness that this tune evokes.

[MrAAA3330]

@ftsjr I still have this album on 8-track. lol. Beautiful piece. I love it.

[freeqwerqwer]

He shouldn't try to change the character of this piece into a classical piece. He should have kept it in the pop realm .

[StephenPaulBradshaw]

A beautifully haunting and wistful rendition.

[sgtlzy]

APPENDUM TO LAST MESSAGE: That album is NOT available on CD...!!!!

[sgtlzy]

If anyone can post his album, PETER NERO PLAYS THE SONGS YOU WON'T FORGET, please, please post!! It came out in the mid-60s and it shows a pic of him standing beside a piano.

[peneschrock]

I remember the album well. It grives me to say that my other's collection is all gone.  So many great memories were based on music.

[mysweetsurrender1001]

it's been a little while that i didn't visit this video but this gentle melodic piece is still ringing into my ears:)

[clelibar]

great interpretation of a wonderful movie!

[joycebloem]

such delicacy, such beauty in simplicity.  thank you..

[bardbulky15]

Wonderful and Beautiful... Peter is one of my favorites... be sure to check out a new posting of "Gary Clark Piano" Over the Rainbow...

[pianomanmaestro]

Beautiful Song!

[TheFrenchrussian]

Mr. Nero, like always shares his mastery,

[WowHolyMoly]

"Goodbye..." Love's impossible inevitability. "Nothing lasts forever," yet, "if love doesn't last forever...what's forever for?" Even love's cliches...affectingly affectionate?

It was something, huh? We were great? "Spectacular," you say? Heh, sure, sure was. What hap-? Never mind...I do, will forever, love you, please realize? Thank you. Yes, sorry, yes, you've decided, now said. It's done. Sorry, so sorry; thank you, it was great. Goodbye. (But forever my love, dreamgirl A-Lady. RPS)

[mysweetsurrender1001]

a superb, captivating & breathtaking piece!!

[oanovahyan]

wow! an exquisite and passionate high praise from someone who obviously knows her music. 2 TUs xD

i agree completely!  :))

[mysweetsurrender1001]

"i agree completely! :)) "

obviously, u know ur music too. thnx a lot! one TU for now :D

[oanovahyan]

"one TU for now :D"

r U serious? After all my poetic efforts, that's all i get? lol XD

Actually....thnx 4 d compliment (?)  :))

[mysweetsurrender1001]

@anovahyan

call it strategy, that's my way to get back to this video everyday, sum1 shared a vid w/ me related to this & i looovee it sooo much!! give U more 2 TUs 2day lol. :))

[oanovahyan]

"sum1 shared a vid w/ me related to this & i looovee it sooo much!!"

wow! a love interest, very exciting! lol good4U. :))

[mysweetsurrender1001]

@anovahyan.....she's a sincere friend whom we both have interest w/ the same kind of music :))

[oanovahyan]

i'm just teasing u xD i hope u didn't mind :)) it's my excuse to come back and give u more TUs lol

[mysweetsurrender1001]

@oanovahyan LOL i don't mind at all :)) thanks 4 d TU, i've 2 catch up w/ U cuz i was absent yesterday.

[oanovahyan]

i dont know if its the beautiful music behind us but i'm really enjoying this conversation. do i know U from somewhere? if teels like. lol

[oanovahyan]

your comment was marked spam. do u know why?

"u remind me of sum1..." lol i get that a lot. see those friends who have left comments on my channel, they said that too. :)) now i'm very curious to know who that sum1 is. I like thinking of myself as unique...care2share? :)

[oanovahyan]

lol...I'm flattered that I remind u of someone that is special to U...:)

wel like i said b4 we got sidetracked (my fault) i've really enjoyed our conversation. my thnx2U. doUmind if i take a look at ur channel too?

[mysweetsurrender1001]

@oanovahyan haha feel free to look at my channel, ur frame is in there already lol. :))

[RainbowKonnektion]

@mysweetsurrender1001

saw your spring cleaning......thank you :))

[RainbowKonnektion]

@mysweetsurrender1001

i hope u don't mind me stealing ur ee cummings poem :)

[mysweetsurrender1001]

@RainbowKonnektion i don't mind at all :)

[MoMoChAn001]

this song sounds familiar...dunno in what place did i heard it....

[tsntana]

There's many places you could've heard it. There are many versions of this song.

[emmadiamanda]

Summer of 42 the movie??? could be?

[seamoscomplices]

bello bello bello

[billeybop]

A beautiful sound coming from a man made instrument. refreshing.

[doothless]

So very beautiful. What talent and feeling!

[guerramar]

La armonía de Michel Legrand es grandiosa en cada una de sus partituras. Esta pieza pertenece al film que le dá título al tema y que magistralmente interpreta Peter Nero.

[surfside48]

Born Bernard Nierow on 5/22/34 in Brooklyn, NY. Pop-jazz-classical pianist. Won the 1961 Best New Artist Grammy Award. Got to 321 on the Billboards Top 40 in November of 1971. It reminds me of A summer in the early 1960's when my family spent two weeks in Lord's Point, Ct. That was A great time to be young. The movie "Summer of '42" was A classic for people my age, even though it took place 30 years earlier in A different wartime.

[buckfan1969]

I don't know a thing about piano, but I remember Peter Nero from the beginning. My mother always said he was one of the few with a 'strong left hand' and she loved him immensely. I can remember him on the Ruth Lyons show in Cincinnati in the early 60's.

[nov055]

this is very relaxing.

[buzzswope]

Good fantastic great

[situationitaly]

wonderful

[Xqwrtz]

does anyone own the scores of this piece? i would be really interested...

[homebody15]

Sorry to say this is just painful to watch. It looks as if the material is almost too familiar, as if he is tired now. He makes a great effort with this now-classic song, but it is just sad to see him struggle through it.

[onejagjeff]

homebody15, What utter bollocks!!!!

[OliverTwisted01]

Homebody15...  You need to get out more!

lol

[skabadash]

what an A hole. You just don't get it do you?

[mpharris88]

Michel's glorious melody and unique changes seem laboriously compromised by this man's pianistic pyrotechnics. Technical facility in itself adds little value to beauty, IMHO.

[libbyavenue]

Pianistic ! ??

[venji8]

why not to tag Michel Legrand, the author?

[HermannV08]

Good remark !

[skeetor321]

Peter Nero you are a god of piano...It is a pleasure to see that if I devote my time I could play like...a decent person..its all I want..thxz so much for your gracious.

[lovablecheerbears]

fantastic absolutely fantastic =^,-,^=

5*****

ok.bye bye.

[JakeMabe1]

One of the most haunting melodies I've ever heard...

[fgoya]

this song remind me of my first sexual encounter when i was 16 years old

[agroligne]

It's wasn't his tune, it's Michel Legrand's written for a movie "Summer of '42", he won an oscar for that in 1972.

[BeAsYouAre615]

Beautiful!

[marcomflantunes]

Esta música me leva até os bons anos da minha vida.

[txreina]

GOD I LOVE THIS SONG.

[carminea]

¡Yo tambien....!

[honestmango]

This is how Stephen Hawking would look if he could play the piano.

[Discfiend69]

Ooohh,A Wise Guy,NUK-NUK : )

[Gr1Ng00]

common .. that WAS funny !! xD ... "on a perverdet way" ...

first time that i hear peter nero .. (am glad) .. mades me chill :)

[huperill]

playing the piano is better than sex any day.

[margaretregan]

I have to agree with you on this... LOL!

I am currently learning this song by special request from one of my students - it's more challenging than I had originally thought! Should be ready to play it for him tomorrow (keeps fingers crossed)...

[mrgears]

Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[kissolife]

Actually, if people gave the latter the kind of devotion to practice that is expected of the former, if mastering technique was given the credit it deserves, if lovers sought the subtle nuances as well as the grand slam wrastlin' match in a smooch fest, such a declaration would be impossible.

[peeterpoon]

I remember watching him on "The Ed Sullivan Show."

[glennmach]

This a great!! Peter Nero playing Michel Legrands Smash hit Love song Summer of '42.. 5 *****..Marc Jones Pop/Jazz Vocalist..Los Angeles,U.S.A.

[disastertom]

this guy did a community concert series in my town in 1973 - I was in high school at the time, where he performed. I took him out for chili dogs before the show!

[kobishop]

what a love song

[vdtmh]

Beautiful, just beautiful, one of the most memorable tunes of the 20th century...

thankyou thankyou thankyou

[onerom63]

A beautiful song. I remember seeing the movie back when I was in elementary school, and fell in love with its simplicity. I purchased the DVD a couple of weeks ago, and it is as good as I remember. The song is haunting and just beautiful.

[papatus80]

Chapeau! Félicitations

[uchoob00]

great playing

[uchoob00]

nice tune

[jamesbond2006007]

I love it

[bingbueno]

peter is one of the best classical music that i ever heard.its wonderful

[tropicalpancake56]

The best version...beautiful. Thanks so much.

[hasvfidra]

Fabulous. The summer of '72. (This is not a typo).

[gadfly1975]

Peter Nero plays the BEST version of this song ever, I swear.

[stringalongmike1953]

Yep.

[jsbach15]

Peter is my all time favorite. Now, if I could just locate his version of "A Room Without Windows," I'd be very happy. I use to have this song on an old LP of his many, many, years ago. This song seems lost.

[ttraugh]

EXTRAORDINARY.

[ttraugh]

WONDERFUL,JUST WONDERFUL