Celebrating Summer: Your Favorite Summer Songs
 

Looking at my calendar, I see that we are almost spack-dab in the middle of summer. How about everyone sharing their thoughts of their favorite summer tunes.

If possible, please post a vid of the song being performed.

I'll start with "Summer in the City" by the Lovin' Spoonful. Here's a real cheesy lip-sync version.

For me, two songs immediately came to mind...Summer Breeze by Seals & Crofts and Boys of Summer by Don Henley.

I'm a New Yorker. John Sebastian lives just over the mountain from me in Woodstock. Of course, I love ''Summer in the City''!

Low, doesn't JS still have a house out here in L.A. too? He was a resident here for many decades. He was part of the circle (same management) as Little Feat and I believe also involved at least tangentially in the Laurel Cyn scene. Seems like a genuinely nice guy.

thanks,
scott memmer

My favorites.

https://youtu.be/JNS_SUmCJm4

https://youtu.be/aSkFygPCTwE

Any number of Beach Boys songs.

A few:

Girls On The Beach

Warmth Of The Sun

Keep An Eye On Summer

All Summer Long

My favorite summer song is A Summer Song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfvL2oLeBYs

"One of the prettiest songs ever written" says Dick Clark, & I agree.

"Under the Boardwalk", of course: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9OgwLZRTmM

He probably does but he's been a neighbor of a friend of mine for years. Woodstock is a cool little, one traffic light town. Much different from LA. My town, Shandaken, doesn't have any traffic lights. Hunter to the north, has a couple and Margaretteville, west, has one. I don't know where there is one to the south.

But we do have lots of good music around here!

At the risk of turning this into a JS appreciation thread, here's John trying out a Kinnaird guitar at last years Woodstock Luthiers Showcase;

https://uniim1.shutterfly.com/ng/ser...131870/enhance

RE: John Sebastian: This weekend here in L.A. is a monthly open mic with a theme. This month is Woodstock. So I'm planning on doing at least one JS tune.

Thanks, everyone, for all your great posts.

Frank, I have taken the liberty of turning your posted song into a screen shot.

For those who don't know how to do that (as I didn't know for years), here's how it works, at least on AGF:

[youtube]vfvL2oLeBYs[/youtube then, at the end just put a closed bracket (]) after the second youtube, no space, and it should work fine. Hope this helps.



Scott Memmer

Sunny Afternoon by the Kinks springs to mind almost immediately.

Summertime

Part of our songlist at every gig.