Summer Wine albums. The history of SUMMER WINE starts in the early 60's with TONY RIVERS and The CASTAWAYS then through the second half of that decade with HARMONY GRASS. In 1970 TONY RIVERS and Castaway member JOHN PERRY were working regulary providing harmonies on numerous artists recording sessions. During the course of this work they met up with RAY FENWICK (fresh from TEE SET and SPENCER DAVIS GROUP) and producer extrodanaire MIKE HURST to record a version of "Why Do Fools Fall In Love" which was released under the name SUMMER WINE. The single did nothing in the UK but made the USA Top 100. Between summer 1971 and summer 1972 the band continued to record even though it was never their intention to perform the songs live. Whilst two other singles were released and as was the case in those days, no hit single-no album these tracks have never before been released in the UK as Summer Wine until now. Lay Back and enjoy some of the best UK harmonies ever committed to record from the early 70's. MUsicians: TONY RIVERS, JOHN PERRY, MIKE HURST and RAY FENWICK. Summer Wine includes: Tony Rivers, John Parry, Ray ...

Summer Wine CD discography. The third and weakest volume in RPM's series of Tony Rivers anthologies is devoted to projects that he was involved with in the 1970s. About half of the 24 tracks are credited to the artist himself; the others spotlight groups that he worked with, including Summer Wine, Harmony Grass, Magic Bus, Indiana, Highly Likely, Shine, Hollywood Freeway, and the Brian Bennett Band. There are no recording or release dates given for the songs (half of which were previously unissued), other than that they were done between 1970 and 1977; since RPM is usually pretty good about this stuff, one presumes that the exact information was not available. Rivers' forte was as a high Beach Boys-styled ...