Summer Go Slow

Before her remarkable story came to light in Finding Mary Smith, Mary Smith was a rising voice in the late 1960s folk music scene. "Summer Go Slow," her first commercial recording, captures the sound that defined an era. This rare recording offers a glimpse into Mary's early musical career— years before her son, Al Isaacs, discovered at age 52 that she was his birth mother. Featured in the award-winning memoir Finding Mary Smith, this song is an important piece of a true story of adoption, family secrets, DNA discovery, and an extraordinary reunion more than five decades in the making.