# Summertime Music **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 21, 2010, 3:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985 "2010-06-21T15:06:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![SaharaTea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@SaharaTea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SaharaTea)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/21 "2010-06-21T18:12:02Z")
> [@Tethered\_Kite](#): > > For my daughter it’s The Eagle’s “Boys of Summer” and their Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac. I’ve always loved that song. The lyrics have such great imagery. My ultimate summer song is [“Strawberry Letter 23”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbxUtFDKz8k) by The Brothers Johnson. Awesome, laid-back 70s groove. Whenever I hear it I instantly want to be rollerblading in a pair of short shorts down a California boardwalk. ---
**Author:** ![legalsnugs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/45deac/32.png) [@legalsnugs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/legalsnugs)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/22 "2010-06-21T18:15:18Z")
Sitting on the **Dock of the Bay** , Otis Redding. Mmmmm, good smooth summertime. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/23 "2010-06-21T18:20:26Z")
\*Hard Sun \*- Eddie Vedder _Heard the World_ - O.A.R. \*2080 \*- Yeasayer ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/24 "2010-06-21T18:29:31Z")
Here are the contents of a “Midsummer Memories” tape I made way back when: Gary Lewis & The Playboys: Green Grass The Outsiders: Time Won’t Let Me The Castaways: Liar Liar The Dave Clark Five: Catch Us If You Can The Monkees: Saturday’s Child The Blues Magoos: (We Ain’t Got) Nothin’ Yet The Knickerbockers: Lies The Beatles: If I Needed Someone The Kinks: Sunny Afternoon 🆒 The Lovin’ Spoonful: Summer in the City The Beach Boys: All Summer Long The Hollies: On a Carousel The Buckinghams: Kind of a Drag 🆒 The Grass Roots: Let’s Live for Today The Soul Survivors: Expressway to Your Heart The Moody Blues: Tuesday Afternoon Johnny Rivers: Summer Rain The Strawberry Alarm Clock: Incense & Peppermints The Status Quo: Pictures of Matchstick Men Junior Walker & The All-Stars: What Does It Take 🆒 The Mamas & The Papas: Go Where You Wanna Go The ones marked 🆒 are those that particularly send me into thoughts of summer everytime I hear them. (Chad & Jeremy’s “A Summer Song” could also make that list) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/25 "2010-06-21T18:38:52Z")
_Grazing In The Grass_ (is a gas…baby, can you dig it?) _School’s Out_ ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/26 "2010-06-21T18:44:48Z")
> [@SaharaTea](#): > > I’ve always loved that song. The lyrics have such great imagery. > > My ultimate summer song is [“Strawberry Letter 23”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbxUtFDKz8k) by The Brothers Johnson. Awesome, laid-back 70s groove. Whenever I hear it I instantly want to be rollerblading in a pair of short shorts down a California boardwalk. Great song - minor geek: it is a cover; the original is by Shuggie Otis, off of his album [Inspiration Information](http://www.amazon.com/INSPIRATION-INFORMATION-Shuggie-Otis/dp/B0000CC833) (Amazon link) - a great, little known work by a studio musician who had a lot in common with Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye (of the What’s Going On era) and Prince…really great stuff. ---
**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/27 "2010-06-21T18:51:09Z")
+1 blondebear, SCHOOL’S OUT FOR SUMMER… even though i’m no longer in school it gets me in the summer vacation mood. ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/28 "2010-06-21T19:01:26Z")
For some reason, some stuff by Tom Petty and John Mellencamp make me think of Summer. Jack and Diane Small Town I Wont Back Down Into The Great Wide Open American Girl Roll Another Joint Pink Houses I suppose the fact that these songs are just very simple, straightforward songs appeals to me in the mindless days of a hazy Summer. ---
**Author:** ![capybara](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/capybara/32/202_2.png) [@capybara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/capybara)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/29 "2010-06-21T19:12:48Z")
All Jonathan Richman, and the Meat Puppets’ Up On the Sun. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/30 "2010-06-21T19:18:41Z")
Fortuitously, I just today brought in an ipod mix I made to share with some co-workers called “69 Summer Songs”. I’ll spoiler box the track listing so people don’t have to scroll through it all: [spoiler] 1. Cheap Trick - Surrender 2. Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues 3. Elvis Costello - The Other Side of Summer 4. Eumir Deodato - Summer Samba (So Nice) 5. Ratcat - That Ain’t Bad 6. The Pogues - The Sunnyside of the Street 7. Koop - Summer Sun 8. Wild Nothing - Summer Holiday 9. The Divine Comedy - The Pop Singer’s Fear of the Pollen Count 10. The Monkees - The Door Into Summer 11. Prince - Sex in the Summer 12. Husker Du - Celebrated Summer 13. Asobi Seksu - Sunshower 14. Splitsville - Sunshiny Daydream 15. Chris Stamey w/Yo La Tengo - The Summer Sun 16. Billy Bragg - St. Monday 17. The Posies - Flood of Sunshine 18. Gene Vincent - Summertime 19. Sly & The Family Stone - Hot Fun in the Summertime 20. Handsome Boy Modeling School - Sunshine 21. The Walker Brothers - Once Upon A Summertime 22. Ultra Vivid Scene - Staring at the Sun 23. The Box Tops - I See Only Sunshine 24. The Durutti Column - Sketch for Summer 25. The Velvet Underground - Who Loves The Sun 26. Antena - Camino Del Sol 27. Pavement - Summer Baby (7" Version) 28. Martha & The Vandellas - Heat Wave 29. Supergrass - Sun Hits The Sky 30. Gorky’s Zygotic Mynci - How I Long To Feel That Summer in My Heart 31. Happy Mondays - Sunshine and Love 32. Radio Birdman - Aloha Steve and Dann-o 33. The Beach Boys - The Warmth of the Sun 34. Fred Schneider - Summer in Hell 35. Laura Veirs - Summer is the Champion 36. Kris Kross - Warm It Up 37. Ashley Park - Summer End 38. The Cure - Snow in Summer 39. Stevie Wonder - Summer Soft 40. The Crocodiles - Summer of Hate 41. Acid House Kings - Summer’s On Its Way 42. The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon 43. Blonde Redhead - Spring and By Summer Fall 44. The Last - Every Summer Day 45. The Appleseed Cast - The Summer Before 46. Los Campesinos! - A Heat Rash in the Shape of the Show Me State; Or, Letters From Me To Charlotte 47. Marshall Crenshaw - Starless Summer Sky 48. Dead Prez & The Evil Genius DJ Green Lantern - Summer Time 49. Lucky Soul - One Kiss Don’t Make A Summer 50. Animal Collective - Summertime Clothes 51. Chixdiggit! - Brunette Summer 52. Shoes - The Summer Rain 53. The Radiants - My Sunshine Girl 54. Saturday Looks Good To Me - Summer Doesn’t Count (Unless You’re Here With Me) 55. Working For A Nuclear Free City - Sarah Dreams of Summer 56. Loney, Dear - Summers 57. Lovage - Everyone Has A Summer 58. The Postmarks - Summer Never Seems To Last 59. Art Brut - Sound of Summer 60. The Lucksmiths - Friendless Summer 61. Adventures in Stereo - Summer High 62. Starflower - Moment in the Sun 63. The Flaming Lips - It’s Summertime 64. The Undertones - Here Comes The Summer 65. Pelle Carlberg - Summer of '69 (NOT the Bryan Adams song!) 66. The Church - Summer 67. Spent - Corvette Summer 68. Belle & Sebastian - I Know Where the Summer Goes 69. R.E.M. - Beachball[/spoiler] A few are songs I personally associate with summer, but most are summer-themed. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 7:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/31 "2010-06-21T19:22:48Z")
> [@Czarcasm](#): > > Try it with just a dollop of clover honey. Trust me. Are you familiar with Mississippi comedian Jerry Clower? Cuz you just “flung a craving on me”. 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/32 "2010-06-21T19:27:56Z")
\*It Must Be Summer \*(Fountains of Wayne) ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/33 "2010-06-21T19:32:03Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Are you familiar with Mississippi comedian Jerry Clower? Cuz you just “flung a craving on me”. > 🆒 That ol’ racoonteur? ---
**Author:** ![banjoDavid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3d9bf3/32.png) [@banjoDavid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/banjoDavid)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/34 "2010-06-21T19:32:06Z")
Under the Boardwalk by the Drifters ---
**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/35 "2010-06-21T19:34:02Z")
_Island in the Sun_ - Weezer _Clint Eastwood_ - Gorrilaz ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/36 "2010-06-21T20:07:30Z")
Then of course there’s “Summer” by The Cars. ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/37 "2010-06-21T22:05:29Z")
Summerfly - Cheryl Wheeler, Maura O’Connell Lazy Days - Spanky & Our Gang 59th Street Bridge Song - Simon & Garfunkel Ventura Highway - America ---
**Author:** ![Superhal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Superhal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superhal)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/38 "2010-06-21T22:19:54Z")
I like the songs that refer to girls wearing bikinis or shorts, like LFO’s Summergirls. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/39 "2010-06-21T22:35:27Z")
Anything played by an ice cream truck. In my neighborhood growing up, that was usually either “The Entertainer” or “Turkey in the Straw”. I hardly ever actually bought anything from the ice cream truck, but it was still a symbol of frozen happiness. You’d hear it several blocks away, and getting closer and closer, until there it was! Coming right down your street! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2010, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/40 "2010-06-21T23:25:54Z")
[Lighthouse - Sunny Days](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pavFjCdIW0) Ain’t nothing better in the world than lying in the sun with your radio. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985.md?page=3)