"How Is Julie?" is a song written by Eddy Carroll (

Eddie Carroll Eddie Carroll (September 5, 1933 – April 6, 2010) was a Canadian actor, who is best known as the third performer to provide the voice for Jiminy Cricket, a role he played for over 35 years. Career In Canada, Carroll studied at the Orion theate ...

) and

Barry DeVorzon Barry De Vorzon (born July 31, 1934) is an American composer, singer, songwriter, and record producer. He worked as a pop musician during the 1960s and co-founded Valiant Records, before being known as a composer of film and television scores ...

Background

The song's lyrics describe the singer's anguish as Julie, whom he loved, has left him.

Chart performance

1962 The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War. Events January * January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...

The Lettermen The Lettermen are an American male pop vocal trio whose trademark is close-harmony pop songs with light arrangements. The group started in 1959. They have had two Top 10 singles (both No. 7), 16 Top 10 singles on the Adult Contemporary chart (i ...

released it as a single from their album ''

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''. The song continued their streak of top forty hits on Billboard's easy listening chart and just missed the top forty of the ''Billboard'' Hot 100.

References

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