Windy (2:53)

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“Windy”

Windy by The Association
Single by The Association
from the album Insight Out
B-side “Sometime”
Released 1967
Genre Sunshine Pop
Length 2:53
Label Warner Bros. Records
Writer(s) Ruthann Friedman
The Association singles chronology
No Fair At All
(1967) Windy
(1967) Never My Love
(1967)
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“Windy”

Single by Wes Montgomery
from the album A Day in the Life
B-side “Watch What Happens”
Released 1967
Format 7” single
Genre Jazz instrumental
Length 2:20
Label A&M/CTI
Writer(s) Ruthann Friedman
Wes Montgomery singles chronology
Windy
(1967) Wind Song
(1968)

“Windy” is a pop music song written by Ruthann Friedman and recorded by The Association. Released in 1967, the song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in July of that year. Later in 1967, an instrumental version by jazz guitarist Wes Montgomery became his biggest Hot 100 hit when it peaked at number forty-four. “Windy” was The Association’s second U.S. number-one, following “Cherish” in 1966.

According to rumor, the original lyrics by Ruthann Friedman were about a man, and The Association changed them to be about a woman.[1]

“There are many explanations of who Windy actually was in Ruthann’s life. She would have you know, she being me Ruthann Friedman, that none of them are true. Windy was, indeed, a female and purely a fictitious character who popped into my head one fine day in 1967…