"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
In
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 ''
Once Upon a Time
"Once upon a time" is a stock phrase used to introduce a narrative of past events, typically in fairy tales and folk tales. It has been used in some form since at least 1380 in storytelling in the English language and has started many narrative ...
''. 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
The Lettermen songs
1962 singles
Songs written by Barry De Vorzon
1962 songs
Capitol Records singles
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