The Trade Winds was an American pop group formed in Providence, Rhode Island.
The group's members were singer-songwriter and record producer Peter Anders (né Peter Andreoli) (April 28, 1941 – March 24, 2016)[1] and Vini Poncia, who previously had a hit single (with a third member, Norman Marzano) under the name "The Videls" with a song titled "Mr. Lonely", which hit #73 on the U.S.
[3] Recording under the name "The Trade Winds" in 1965, they released several singles and scored two more U.S. hits, "New York's a Lonely Town" (#32, 1965) and the psychedelic-tinged "Mind Excursion" (#51, 1966),[4] along with two other songs that bubbled under the U.S. charts, "The Girl From Greenwich Village" at number 129, and "Catch Me in the Meadow" at number 132.
The group was mentioned in the Mad Men Season 5 episode "Tea Leaves" where Harry accidentally signed them instead of The Rolling Stones for a Heinz commercial.
[8] Anders died at Kent Hospital in Warwick, Rhode Island, on March 24, 2016, at age 74.