# 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:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![twopiecesofeight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5e9695/32.png) [@twopiecesofeight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twopiecesofeight)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/61 "2010-06-25T17:27:51Z")
From when MTV still showed music videos: Summertime (1991)…DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince [Will Smith] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X\_PDns23RWY](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_PDns23RWY) The music starts a few seconds after the Nintendo’ish splash screen. ---
**Author:** ![Gordon\_Urquhart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/db5fbb/32.png) [@Gordon\_Urquhart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gordon_Urquhart)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/62 "2010-06-25T21:56:08Z")
I had a hankering to listen to Springsteen’s \*Magic \*album from 2007 on the way to work – [Girls in Their Summer Clothes](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8PB1a1c9zA) is a song that takes The Boss’ penchant for the Wall of Sound up a couple of notches. It’s a great, wonderfully evocative summer song that didn’t get nearly enough radio airplay because of \*Magic’s \*opening track that railed against corporate radio, so corporate radio didn’t play much from the album. ---
**Author:** ![Ignatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/3be4f8/32.png) [@Ignatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ignatz)\ **Post date:** [June 25, 2010, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/63 "2010-06-25T23:02:44Z")
I’ll vote for \*\*Lazy, Hazy, Crazy Days of Summer \*\*by Nat King Cole, c. 1964 and **In the Good Old Summertime** by I fergit. ---
**Author:** ![Nicest\_of\_the\_Damned](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/8baadc/32.png) [@Nicest\_of\_the\_Damned](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nicest_of_the_Damned)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/64 "2010-06-26T04:38:35Z")
> [@FoieGrasIsEvil](#): > > Then of course there’s “Summer” by The Cars. I think you might be thinking of the song called “Magic”? That’s the one I first thought of when I read the OP. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/6bEu9wLDjKY/hqdefault.jpg "The Cars - "Magic" video (full version)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bEu9wLDjKY) Also, Elvis Costello, “The Other Side of Summer” and Joe Jackson, “Friday” even though I think it only mentions summer in the first line. ---
**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 26, 2010, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/65 "2010-06-26T04:57:11Z")
[Duran Duran - Can You Taste The Summer?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SjmghQ-KJcg) [Joe Satriani - Summer Song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Vp7TmTfVZI) And, of course, Rio by Duran Duran. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![BigBertha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d78d45/32.png) [@BigBertha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigBertha)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/66 "2010-06-26T06:32:19Z")
I am the first to say Rockaway beach-Ramones. As far as personal memories, Lonely Girl-forget by who Groovin on a Sunday Afternoon Vacation by the Go Gos ---
**Author:** ![Sir\_Prize](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d2c977/32.png) [@Sir\_Prize](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sir_Prize)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/67 "2010-06-26T11:02:41Z")
[I wanna be a lifeguard](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBRJ6jQfap0) - Blotto ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/68 "2010-06-26T15:54:58Z")
Steve Miller Band says “summer” to me. Also, Lynyrd Skynyrd, for some reason. And **The Hissing of Summer Lawns** from Joni Mitchell. ---
**Author:** ![Rrose\_Selavy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bcef8e/32.png) [@Rrose\_Selavy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rrose_Selavy)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2010, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/69 "2010-06-26T16:18:26Z")
[Lazy Bones](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qROwjULKVj0) ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2010, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/70 "2010-06-27T00:40:26Z")
[Wild Thing](http://s0.ilike.com/play#The+Troggs:Wild+Thing:50830:s44362.17297.16768.1.1.15%2Cstd_ae8addfbf80392f90c3033823cc14034) by the Troggs. Just reminds me of hanging out by the beach back in those days and listening to that flute solo echo across the boardwalk… ---
**Author:** ![ProfessorX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@ProfessorX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ProfessorX)\ **Post date:** [July 1, 2010, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985/71 "2010-07-01T00:12:53Z")
Country is great summer music for me, just about any upbeat country music works for me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/summertime-music/543985.md?page=3)