I don't know why but songs with summer in the title are always great. I can think of a hundred right off the top of my head. Here's some great ones.
Hot Fun in the Summertime... Sly and the Family Stone
Summer...War
Suddenly Last Summer ...The Motels
Summertime Blues... Eddie Cochran
Summer Breeze... Seals and Crofts
Summer Rain... Johnny Rivers
Summer Cannibals... Patti Smith Group
Summer in the City....Lovin Spoonful
Celebrated Summer... Husker Du
One Summer dream... Electric Light Orchestra
The Summer Knows... Barbra Streisand
A Warm Summer Night... Chic
Summer Fever... Donna Summer
A summer playlist (whether it’s the lyrics, or just the feel of the music, or both):
Stevie Wonder : Summer Soft
Phoenix: Too Young; Tuttifrutty ; Summer Days
The Eagles: Hotel California; Take it Easy
Wings : Mamunia
Joe Cocker : With a Little Help From My Friends (this one is because we see that festival)
Blur : Girls & Boys
Christpher Cross : Sailing; Ride Like the Wind
Michael McDonald : What a Fool Believes
Chic : I Want Your Love
Michael Jackson : PYT
Daft Punk: Get Lucky; High Life
The Thrills : Big Sur
Lionel Richie: All Night Long
The Beach Boys : Pet Sounds (the song), Diamond Head, Busy Doin’ Nothin’, Friends (and all of Friends album)
The Flaming Lips : Sleeping on the Roof
XTC : Grass
The Divine Comedy : The Summerhouse
Lenny Kravitz : It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over
Pink Floyd: Fat Old Sun
The Beatles : Sun King
Loyd Cole: Butterfly
I'm gonna revive this thread now that the world is in the grip of a heatwave:
Here's a few more I like:
The Kinks/Kirsty MacColl - Days
Martha & The Vandellas - Heatwave
Dancing In The Street
Eagles - Peaceful, Easy Feeling
Tequila Sunrise
Gypsy Kings - Hotel California
Bamboleo
Neil Diamond - Brother Love's Travelling Salvation Show
Lovin' Spoonful - Daydream
Mock Turtles - Can You Dig It?
Beatles - Penny Lane
Ticket to Ride
I don't know why but songs with summer in the title are always great. I can think of a hundred right off the top of my head. Here's some great ones.
One Summer dream... Electric Light Orchestra
I could go on and on and on.....
Face The Music is more fine work from the Electric Light Orchestra, which rather quietly has evolved into a most consistent septet. Leader Jeff Lynne remains one of a few Sixties rockers who has developed a new and more adventurous style with a minimum of chaff in the process. In this setting he has successfully integrated a recognizable string trio (an achievement in itself) with his own melodic strings, producing a stately music without being stuffy or saccharine. Nor do the cellos and violin seem a mere afterthought.
All eight compositions are strong and fully realized: "Poker" with its hard rock guitar explosions, the oddly workable C&W flirtation "Down Home Town" and an instrumental with lavish but spirited orchestration. The seven outdo themselves, however, on "One Summer Dream", a beautiful and evocative tune sung touchingly by Lynne. A trifle sentimental perhaps, but lyrically and musically, it displays more emotion (not to mention pure ability) than one ordinarily hears from a rock group. Most importantly the song and the rest of Face The Music as well, reiterates that rock can be complex, ambitious and arty, yet still remain rock. (RS 203)
CHARLEY WALTERS
One Summer Dream - Electric Light Orchestra with background vocal by Ellie Greenwich, Susan Collins, Marge Raymond and Nancy O'Neill AKA SuMagNa
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