Hearing Paul Simon's '73 hit in the grocery store made me briefly forget that my favorite season was coming to an end. What song always says "summer" to you? An open thread...
“Summertime” always seemed ponderous and lugubrious to me. “Summer in the City”--edgy and hot. But “Sweet Summer Breeze” always makes me feel fine. But you know there’s no law against playing your summer fave during winter. The other option is O
"Band on the Run" always takes me back to our Chicago neighborhood beach, the hot sand, the very cold lake, "digging for water" with a toy shovel, and getting back into our Buick with its black vinyl, my mom helping me and a friend arrange towels under us to avoid it burning us. I loved that first thirty seconds of baking-hot car interior.
Three Little Birds by Bob Marley is that first really warm day in May at college when everyone dragged their pasty white skin out onto the quad to smoke and try to get "some base color." (and yeah, it was all pasty white kids groovin' to Bob). But it makes my heart happy and light any time I hear it and i might roll the car windows down even if it's cold
Summer is the 80s, and it's always been about Janet (Escapade), Prince (Raspberry Beret), Madonna (Holiday), The Go Gos (Our Lips Are Sealed), Bananarama (Cruel Summer) and a whole bunch of obscure Canadian bands that I grew up with. Gotta say that my traditional "summer opener" movie is "Desperately Seeking Susan", and my summer closer is "Dirty Dancing", and gainsay who dare. HEY: someone should make a playlist of all these songs in the comments!
Every summer I was sent to my Aunt Ricky's house in Pittsburgh. In my mind, she was my "summer mother." In the summer of '75 Uncle Ed, her husband, got an 8-track stuck in his pick-up's deck. The tape was the Average White Band's joint "Cut the Cake," but my favorite song was "School Boy Crush." I was 12 years old when it came out, but every time I hear that track the summer of '75 comes back to me. Aunt Ricky & Uncle Ed are both dead, but somewhere in Pittsburgh I'm sure that 8-track is still stuck in the pick-up truck.
Sly/Family “Hot Fun in the Summertime.”
Love Boys of Summer by Don Henley.
I don’t like those darker days coming either Sari.
Take care.
Beach Boys!!
☀️☀️☀️🌈 🌊🏄♀️
Also Stevie Wonder- almost anything but especially Superstition
“Summertime” always seemed ponderous and lugubrious to me. “Summer in the City”--edgy and hot. But “Sweet Summer Breeze” always makes me feel fine. But you know there’s no law against playing your summer fave during winter. The other option is O
"Band on the Run" always takes me back to our Chicago neighborhood beach, the hot sand, the very cold lake, "digging for water" with a toy shovel, and getting back into our Buick with its black vinyl, my mom helping me and a friend arrange towels under us to avoid it burning us. I loved that first thirty seconds of baking-hot car interior.
Walking on Sunshine, Cruel Summer, Breakfast in America, Borderline, Prince’s Purple Rain album
Boys of Summer by Don Henley,
Like Cece has already added here.
Reminds me of the summer I spent working in Ocean City, MD and then heading back to college, tanned and tired, when Labor Day rolled around.
Three Little Birds by Bob Marley is that first really warm day in May at college when everyone dragged their pasty white skin out onto the quad to smoke and try to get "some base color." (and yeah, it was all pasty white kids groovin' to Bob). But it makes my heart happy and light any time I hear it and i might roll the car windows down even if it's cold
Under the Boardwalk by The Drifters and Surfin' USA by The Beach Boys
Summer is the 80s, and it's always been about Janet (Escapade), Prince (Raspberry Beret), Madonna (Holiday), The Go Gos (Our Lips Are Sealed), Bananarama (Cruel Summer) and a whole bunch of obscure Canadian bands that I grew up with. Gotta say that my traditional "summer opener" movie is "Desperately Seeking Susan", and my summer closer is "Dirty Dancing", and gainsay who dare. HEY: someone should make a playlist of all these songs in the comments!
The Lovin’ Spoonful, “Summer in the City” 1966
Bryan Adam's "Summer of '69"
Up on the Roof- The Drifters or Laura Nyro version
Carolina In My Mind - James Taylor
Brown Eyed Girl- Van Morrison
Good Vibrations- Beach Boys
Sloop John B- Beach Boys
“Sailing, takes me away to where I've always heard it could be…” 🎶🎶
Christopher Cross always takes me away!
Every summer I was sent to my Aunt Ricky's house in Pittsburgh. In my mind, she was my "summer mother." In the summer of '75 Uncle Ed, her husband, got an 8-track stuck in his pick-up's deck. The tape was the Average White Band's joint "Cut the Cake," but my favorite song was "School Boy Crush." I was 12 years old when it came out, but every time I hear that track the summer of '75 comes back to me. Aunt Ricky & Uncle Ed are both dead, but somewhere in Pittsburgh I'm sure that 8-track is still stuck in the pick-up truck.
The Song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q23J0uMomDE
On Aunt Ricky: https://longreads.com/2020/10/14/summer-mother/