OT: your favorite summer song

[Zorro]

 

[CL82]

I had to spend some time with them. They are genuinely very nice people, consummate professionals and very appreciative of their fans and they still absolutely kill this song.

 

[RowdyFan]

NRBQ.....Ridin' in my Car. If I knew how to load a video, I would...

 

[JordyG]

NRBQ.....Ridin' in my Car. If I knew how to load a video, I would...

Copy and paste from youtube.

 

[Kaizen]

NRBQ.....Ridin' in my Car. If I knew how to load a video, I would...

 

[HuskyNan]

How can it not be the Beach Boys?

 

[EasyEd]

Well my favorite will always be:

 

[Kaizen]

How can it not be the Beach Boys?

Yes, how can you separate Beach Boy and summer.

 

[JRRRJ]

Someone already got my #1 -- "A Summer Song".

Here's one of the multifarious #2s:

 

[Scud49]

Of course, can't forget this wonderful summer classic - it even has the correct name.

 

[Fairfield Fan]

Not a single song, but a group of them, and a group.

Everyone's favorite summer songs have to be Beach Boys songs. D-U-U-H-H!!!!!

 

[Conndog]

Here are two songs I really like- 1) Papa Gene's Blues, by the Monkees, and 2) Some Good Years, by the Cowsills

 

[Kaizen]

Here are two songs I really like- 1) Papa Gene's Blues, by the Monkees, and 2) Some Good Years, by the Cowsills

 

[HuskyNan]

Renaissance's gorgeous "Trip to the Fair" reminds me of soft summer days when I used to hear it on the FM dial:

Oooooh, another Renaissance fan. I saw them in concert when I was in college. ABout 50 of us stood outside the theater when they were practicing just to hear Annie Haslam's soaring voice. So glorious.

 

[tomcat]

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Absolutely! A great summer song, as is a similar one, Up on the Roof.

 

[johnnyc]

 

[JordyG]

Oooooh, another Renaissance fan. I saw them in concert when I was in college. ABout 50 of us stood outside the theater when they were practicing just to hear Annie Haslam's soaring voice. So glorious.

Those were the days when the bands you loved understood that the fans were the backbone of their music. It made them humble and accessible. The days when bands would just pop up and play locally, talk to you personally, and play nearly all night. Days long gone.

 

[Sonny44]

 

[Waquoit]

But the winner is....Beach Baby by First Class. Beat-up sneakers and a ponytail (coming out of a baseball cap) does it for me.

 

[Scud49]

Oooooh, another Renaissance fan. I saw them in concert when I was in college. ABout 50 of us stood outside the theater when they were practicing just to hear Annie Haslam's soaring voice. So glorious.

Sweet memory Nan, thanks for sharing

Here's another from that era, maybe I'm stretching things a bit to call it a "summer song", but just had to share it, as to me it's equally haunting as Renaissance's "Trip to the Fair"

 

[wire chief]

Thanks man, but it all now seems just luck and serendipity. I was born in Brooklyn just a short distance from the old Paramount theater where some of the first R & R shows in the world were showcased. Because of R & R's origins I would hear vocal groups practicing on the street corners, in the subways and in the apartment hallways. Alan Freed was the man responsible for the Paramount shows then. I was only 3 or 4, but my sisters were 10 years older than I and would drag me along to babysit (secretly of course). A few years later the shows were taken over by Murray the K and his shows were mainly early Motown Revues with added acts. I saw almost every Motown act at least once, some 4 and 5 times. The Temps, Smokey, Marvin, The Supremes. Also others like Dusty, Tom Jones, Dionne Warwick, The Four Seasons, The Rascals. I could just hop on the bus across from my house which left me off across the street from the theater. Honestly, by the time I was 12 I'd seen 100 live acts. Luck and serendipity. And yes, I was raised on Rock and Roll.

While your toddler self was boogieing to new sounds, this 16 year old and his buddies bused over from Jersey were there, trying not to trip over you.
The Brooklyn Fox and the NYParamount also saw Alan Freed...and us, clapping and shouting to Bo Diddly, Fats Domino, Everlys,
Joann Campbell, Mickey and Sylvia, Cleftones, Drifters, Chuck Berry and (brace yourself) Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
Vivid memories still.

 

[JordyG]

While your toddler self was boogieing to new sounds, this 16 year old and his buddies bused over from Jersey were there, trying not to trip over you.
The Brooklyn Fox and the NYParamount also saw Alan Freed...and us, clapping and shouting to Bo Diddly, Fats Domino, Everlys,
Joann Campbell, Mickey and Sylvia, Cleftones, Drifters, Chuck Berry and (brace yourself) Screamin' Jay Hawkins.
Vivid memories still.

Sweet.
Unfortunately I only remember most vividly the shows once they were taken over by Clay Cole and Murray the K. However living in Brooklyn so close to Fort Greene my young self knew those who knew people like Little Anthony and the Jive Five. Once they played the Fox I of course got to see The Drifters (twice), Ben E. King (once with, once without), Screamin' Jay, Chuck (far later during "My Ding-a-Ling"), and Mickey and Sylvia.

The Cleftones huh? So nice. Some people want to believe that R & R began with Presley. It didn't. Some people want to believe it began with Chuck. It didn't. Some want to believe it began with The Beatles. It didn't. R & R began with vocalist's like Big Joe Turner and groups like The Cleftones and The Moonglows. It began as a dance music for the young, and it began with people like you diggin' it.

 

[Kaizen]

 

[8893]

Was reminded of this one when it popped up on my iPod yesterday:

 

[Scud49]

I believe it was the summer of '62 when this one was on the airwaves a lot - and it was one of those tunes that really made me turn the volume UP...!