Donna Lewis is a singer-songwriter from Cardiff, Wales, whose only major hit was this love song. The track was released in the US on May 14, 1996 as the lead single from her debut album, Now in a Minute. It peaked at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, staying there for nine weeks during the summer of 1996, and was held off the summit by "Macarena" by Los Del Rio. The tune received 12 million airplays on US radio becoming one of the most played songs of the 1990s.
The song peaked at #5 in Lewis' home country. Outside the United Kingdom, it peaked within the top ten of the charts in many European countries as well as Australia and New Zealand.
The song was inspired by the H. E. Bates romantic novel Love for Lydia, which is set in the 1920s. Lewis explained to Billboard magazine in 1996: "The author wrote it in such a descriptive and beautiful way, set in English countryside, that I wanted to try and create this atmosphere in the song. When I wrote its melody I wanted to write something simple, remembering falling in love for the first time in the summer, that magical wonderful feeling. That was it really, the whole thing just came together."
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