This unlikely hit exploded like an over-ripe zit all over John Hughes America in the mid-Eighties.The brass-powered soft-rockers pretty much perfect Seventies mellowness on this radio staple, a shout out to Central Park written while the band was recording in New York. After enough listens, it's impossible not to agree, whether your "herre" is a sweaty club, a hot summer night or, the argument could be made, anywhere on our globally warming earth.
Fun fact: Near the end of the song, Withers holds a single note for 18 seconds, which is purportedly the longest note in a U.S. Top 40 single in history.
This democratic attitude took on civil-rights overtones when “Dancing in the Street” was appropriated as an unofficial anthem of the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles.
: 1: Sweet Caroline (Good Times Never Seemed So Good) Neil Diamond Nathan Williams whines about the sun burning his eyes and his back at the beach in his dreams as a basement-studio mix of fuzzed up guitars and crackling drums shred right through his sunstroke bravado.Combining the wistful essence of alt-country and the gummy groove fun of hip-hop, Jeff Tweedy came up the perfect song about rocking out in the landing in the summer, “playing In the summer of 1988, kids at block parties from Brooklyn to Boise skipped rope and played hopscotch and got down to “It Takes Two,” the quintessential The late-Nineties was full of light hip-hop influenced alt-pop by bands like Sugar Ray and Smash Mouth, and this brother-sister duo from Toronto topped them all with this buoyant shot of We already have this email. The song’s sing-along lyrics and blistering guitar solos (it’s lead guitarist Slash’s favorite song to play live) have been elevating chill summer hangouts to hard-rocking parties since it first appeared on the band’s debut album, What would summer be without summer flings? “I am getti’n so hot, I wanna take my clothes off” Perfect for those days when the mercury hits the 90s and clothing becomes optional.This British bubblegum blues band’s 1970 guide to doing what you please is one of oldies radio’s most recognizable jams thanks to its bouncy banjo plinking. Real street sounds (car horns, a jackhammer) add texture to the midsong musical interlude, which lets the song catch its breath before launching back to its urgent rhythms. Try another?
Hot, it certainly is.Okay, so technically the lyrics reference rain, not sun, but just listen to that wispy guitar, warm, ambling bass and shimmering keys. It was also used rather excellently in Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam-War opus “Heat wave, nothing to do / Woke up in my clothes having dreamt of you,” sings Lindsey Jordan mournfully, before she and the rest of the band kick things up a notch to achieve an enjoyable, ’90s-indie vibe. To listen to a song clip, click on a song title. You can almost feel the sand crunching beneath your toes and the ocean waves in the background as you listen to all of its talk of hot dogs, the sun beating down on a tar-papered roof and getting cozy on a blanket with your beloved.Maybe the most wrenching of all the “Where did we go wrong?” baby-boomer anthems, this 1984 triumph finds the Eagles kit man mourning not just the summer love that got away but the dashed ideals of an entire generation. Singer Al Anderson sings about a summer fling that ended so bad he thinks about his ex-girlfriend every time he gets in his car.A celebration of California living set to some cheerily buzzing guitars: “We’ve got the ocean, got the babes/Got the sun, we’ve got the waves/This is the only place for me,” Bethany Cosentino sings.
This is seriously as happy as this guy gets. 3 on the Billboard soul charts in the autumn of 1969. The best Pop summer songs. But back in 1972, Cooper and his rough-and-tumble band perfectly captured the rowdy spirit of the last day of school—which Cooper rated as second only to Christmas as the most important day on the calendar.The facts might be a little fuzzy—Bryan Adams was only nine years old in the actual summer of ’69—but it’s a safe bet that the Ontario song man was speaking from experience when he looked back on the twin pleasures of rock and romance in this 1985 roots-pop staple.
But Martha Reeves insisted that it was not intended in that spirit. David Corio/Michael Ochs Archive/Getty Images Wistful like the waning days of August before you have to load the car up and head back to the dorm, Soul music’s tortured prince goes disco by figuring out how to make heavy funk light on its feet. According to Chic, the sporting life includes clams on the half shell and roller-skating. Billboard is part of MRC Media and Info, a division of MRC. It’s the greatest surf song of all time and as the soundtrack to the opening credits for This big, sad, skywrite-the-chorus song might be the best thing ever to be named “Heat Wave,” and that’s no light claim. David Corio/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images Over a funky laidback beat, a young Will Smith does a fantastic Rakim impression over a sample of Kool & the Gang’s “Summer Madness” and drops a sweet ode to hanging out and driving around his native Philly: “Honking at the honey in front of you with the light eyes/She turn around to see what you beeping at/It’s like the summers a natural aphrodisiac.” It’s still hip-hop’s finest summer celebration.With a radiant keyboard melody and swirls of surf guitar, Tons of tunes celebrate the summer, but few note how oppressive and gross it can be: John Sebastian sounds seriously annoyed when he spits “back of my neck getting dirt and gritty.” But then the sun goes down and the partying starts – everyone is hooking up on rooftops and twistin’ the night away.
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