Midnight Sun (instrumental & vocal) - Akiko & Swing Out Sister

Another obscure SOS classic: the bonus tracks from Akiko's 2002 CD Single 'Waters Of March'. Essentially the Swing Out Sister band fronted by Akiko as produced by Paul Staveley O'Duffy. Midnight Sun (1954) was originally an instrumental composed by Lionel Hampton and Sonny Burke in 1947 and is now considered a jazz standard. Subsequently, Johnny Mercer wrote the words to the song. Johnny was driving along the freeway from Palm Springs to Hollywood, California, when he heard the instrumental on his car radio and started to set words to the song as he drove.