July 1, 1967 –
The Association’s song Windy (not to be confused with The Beach Boy’s song, Wendy,) hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 on this date. It was the Association’s second No. 1 hit, following Cherish in 1966.
Although the writer of the song, Ruthann Friedman never revealed the identity of Windy, she said that he was another singer/songwriter, and not “a freewheeling Haight Ashbury Hippy” as often reported. Friedman said about the song: “I have heard so many different permutations of what the song was about. Here is the TRUTH. I was sitting on my bed – the apartment on the first floor of David Crosby’s house in Beverly Glenn – and there was a fellow who came to visit and was sitting there staring at me as if he was going to suck the life out of me. So I started to fantasize about what kind of a guy I would like to be with, and that was Windy – a guy (fantasy). The song took about 20 minutes to write.“
The Haus of Dcaligari 