What are your 10 Must Know Summer Songs
Ok its been hot for a while now so Summer is really here and the time is right to play those seasonal favorites. Here is my starter set list....what's yours?
1. Summer In The City/Lovin' Spoonfull 2. Summertime/everyone 3. Hot Fun In the Summer Time/Sly & Family Stone 4. The Summer Wind/Frank 5. Summer Song/Chad & Jerrimy or was it Peter and Gordon? Oh, yeah I'll be back in the fall to talk about falling leaves and rain.... |
"All Summer Long" - The Beach Boys
"Keep an Eye on Summer" - The Beach Boys "Summertime Blues" [you pick the artist] (Does The Hollies' "Bus Stop" count? ". . .by August she was mine") ________ Vapezilla Purchase |
In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry
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"The Boys of Summer" -- Don Henley version, not The Ataris (it's a Deadhead sticker, not a Black Flag sticker, hear?)
"Magic" -- The Cars ("Summer turns me upside down, Summer summer summer . . . ") "Sealed with a Kiss" -- Brian Hyland ("Though we gotta say goodbye for the summer . . . ") |
Not all my choices are about summer per se, but to me at least, they evoke the spirit of a summery feeling.
"Summer Breeze" - Seals & Croft "Dock of the Bay" - Otis Redding "Margaritaville" - Jimmy Buffett "Under the Boardwalk" - The Drifters "Listen to the Music" - Doobie Bros. "Ramblin' Man" - Allman Bros. |
I guess some of us are out enjoying the summer and Dancin' In The Street/Martha & Vandella's
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"The First Day of Summer" -- Tony Carey
"I Dreamed a Dream" from Les Miz ("He slept a summer by my side . . . But he was gone when autumn came.") |
"Saturday in the Park"--Chicago
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Stairway?
Freebird? Smoke on the.... |
Come on guys......
"Sunny Afternoon" by the incomparable Kinks! |
Some favorites of mine that haven't been mentioned:
King's X - Summerland Oscar Peterson - When Summer Comes Diana Krall - Summer Samba Dashboard Confessional - Dusk and Summer |
and in a dream. . .
"V-A-C-A-T-I-O-N (in the summertime)" by Connie Francis (what a hook!--the song, not Connie Francis)
"Summer Rain" Johnny Rivers (". . .everybody kept on playin' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Baa-a-a-and") "Suddenly Last Summer" The Motels (I think) "See You in September" (". . .see yoooou when the summer's through") And, of course, anything by Donna Summer ________ Shower Teen |
Summer Days - Bob Dylan
I liker beer - Tom T. Hall |
So far so good.
Hay FL. Johnny River's "Summer Rain" was the first song I recall that mentioned another song......."Everybody kept on playing Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"........ |
"Up On the Roof-" Carole King or the Drifters
"Summer of Drugs"--Victoria Williams or Soul Asylum (note: NOT a pro-drug song). "Old Hayes"--Reilly & Maloney (by Bobby Vee!) |
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