With their gentle sound and smooth vocal harmonies, the band The Brothers Four was one of the key representatives of the folk revival movement in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The song "The Green Leaves of Summer" is an emotional ballad, one of their most famous works. The song was written by Dimitri Tiomkin (music) and Paul Francis Webster (lyrics). "The Green Leaves of Summer" was composed for the film The Alamo in 1960 and was released as a single in the same year. The song was also include