Summer Songs.
 

Might be a bit early but, why not?

This was one of those obscure 60's group.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiHl73fP_wA]

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Don't know how they came up with perforing this in the cold snowy winter time.

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Great song! But you wouldn't catch me standing out in the snow with my precious Martins.

Cathy

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An old Sesame Street film about Summer and should of been a hit.


Wonder who's the lady singing?

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Maybe they were going for irony? One of my all time favorite songs!

Bill :)

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I can't post from You Tube but .........

California Sun - The Rivieras (Always reminds me of summer)

Summer Breeze - Seals & Crofts

Summer Nights - ONJ & Travolta and cast of "Grease"

Surely just about any Beach Boys song but "Warmth Of The Sun" reminds me of laid back summers in California when I was younger.

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Summer Breeze... I'd forgotten about that song. It's one of those that took forever to learn to play. I finally gave up and bought a Seal & Crofts song book with guitar chords, which came in handy during graduation, when I played We May Never Pass This Way Again for the class song.

I saw Seals & Crofts in concert in Bangor, ME, in 1975. No many people showed up, so we moved down to the third row. They put on a great show!

Cathy

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Here's 2 more.

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Well I might as well put up their summer song.





And as a bounus, here's the remake done some years back by Jason Mraz.

Only objection I have is he left out the 2nd verse.

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My personal favourites for summer songs would have to be Spanish Moss & Summertime Dream.

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Thanks for Summer Breeze, Touhy Ave. I haven't heard that song for such a long time. I remember I used to have a Seals & Crofts 8-track tape in the '70. I think it was their Greatest Hits, and I played it until it quit playing. I guess I should look for it on CD. I won't be buying Jason Mraz's version anytime soon, though!

Cathy

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Here's another.

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How about this? -
Here's a real age shower.... -

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Doh! How could I forget.....

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don't forget this one:

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Summer has come early here in the midwest so I might as well post another song.


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A more recent interpretation of SS.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nh91oz_CKmA

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record breaking temps here in TO - 70F. this has been almost a week of these temps! even next week when things 'cool off' the temps will still be more than double the norm at 5/6C. i have laundry hanging outside again!

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It's the same way here in northern Maine. It's 75 right now, and is supposed to be warm again tomorrow. Our snow is melting quickly, and after tomorrow, all that will be left is a few snow banks. The ice is even breaking up in the river. I've never seen that happen before April 5th!
I love it!

Cathy

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How about a nice happy feel good song from someone who is as much a Brazilian national treasure as Gordon is to Canada. Sergio Mendes and Brasil 66's Pretty World

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I thought I'd post this other Kina Grannis video which also has a summer theme to it.

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Though she was a songwriter for most of the 60's, Carole King did make some recordings durring that time.

The following was recorded as a demo but ended up getting released as a single in 1962.

Sort of a rather gloomy summer song as it deals with someone who has either broken up with someor their partner is gome for the time beinf and can't seem to enjoy the season.

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Here's 2 from an artists which I posted sometime ago.


First one was an original, 2nd one is a cover we all should know.

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I wonder what was the need for Bobby who even tell this story to the world?

Also if you read some of the YT comments, it's believe that though released in 1973, he apparently wrote it 5 years earlier because he's 71 now which mean's he had to have been 32 in 73.

Guess he hesitated recording it for obvious reasons.

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If you click on the link it says at the bottom this song was released late in 63, which is interesting to have a summer song released in winter.

I even heard once that S&C's Summer Breeze was also released in late 72.

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This song didn't make the charts nationally but did here in Chicago on the local charts.

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Don't believe I've heard of this man before.

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I'm suprised I totaly neglected this one.

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Here's another Summer song. by Bananarama

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Not quite Summer yet but couldn't wait to put up one from the best time of the year.

This Roger Miller classic certainly does have a Summery sound.



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If we're talking Roger Miller.. here he is with Andy Williams who had a hit with Roger's "In the Summertime"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRuzBp7eIP8

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Jamestown Massacre's "Summer Sun" sounds a LOT like the group "Chicago", in the 70's. Geographic coincidence, I guess. They share some of the same sound, with voice and horn section. Likeable stuff,but not quite the polish of Chicago, the band.

I once read Chicago was one of the top 40's most professionally-trained and classically educated in music and/or their specific instruments. I believe it. Terry Winter is very listenable, but tries a little to hard on rapid vibrato in his voice. Sounds a bit like Johnny Rivers mixed with Bobby Goldsboro's rapid vibrato and tenor voice (?) - I think... I'm no pro on singing terminology, only an amateur opinion.

Summer music definately had a distinctive quality about it. You can almost hear/feel (?)- the heat waves in songs like "Sunset Grill" by Don Henley. I can also still smell the backseat area of the station-wagon (remember those?LOL) on summer family vacations when I was a kid. Socks needing laundered, orange peels and chocolate candy-wrappers on the floor, with my brother and I fighting over the EXACT center of the transmission-hump with our feet, as though we were holding the Prime Meridian down at 0 degrees in Greenwich, LOL.

The smell of Dad's coffee thermos to keep driving for 11 hours at 80 MPH, PULLING A POP-TOP TENT TRAILER, with more than 12 stops, at least one every hour to let the dogs and us rest-stop in 3 minutes max. Gotta get those miles in, and stop at a Holiday Inn every other night for real sleep and shower, unlike the KOA's and oval "stump with electrical outlet, and tent-pad and picnic table "campgrounds",LOL.

From Ohio up through Sault Saint Marie to Canada, West all the way to Alberta and the Rockies, Moraine Lake and The Valley of the Ten Peaks" - THAT was camping, in National Forest grounds. Banff, Lake Louis (beautiful) - and the tea-house gift-shop up a day-hike from the lake, at about 11,000 feet, amazing.Right at timberline. Then shoot down to Colorado, for two weeks of base-camping near Estes Park,and 3-5 day backpack trips from the trailer up to the St. Vrain Glaciers. Magnificent. Smell the pines, ahhhh.

Then back in the car, 4 people, 4 dogs, the backseat "am I going to have to STOP this car and TAN YOUR HIDES?" with my brother and I arguing over the tranny hump again, LOL. Me 12, him 16. 10,000 miles on the Chevy Brookwood wagon that trip, in one month. That was a complex set of summer smells, LOL. oH - And the Stuckey's pecan logs at their tourist stops on the HWY, mom had to get the nut roll logs, and a fresh 2 quarts of coffee for dad to stay awake driving. Gotta get those miles.

Carbon Monoxide and exhaust in the old crank-down wagon rear windows, and the fumes rolling back in, because dad wanted to save the $50 on the air deflector, I'd lay in the back cargo area on the rugs with the dogs to get away from my brother punching me in the arm, LOL, and his, well, methane. But I smelled worse after a few hours in the back with the dogs.

Ahhh but the crisp cool pine-scented air off of the glaciers at backpack camp-sites. Summer smells. Summer songs made me remember all that, LOL.

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Gotta listen to the rest of them. :)

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Sly and The Family Stone..wow - I'm 14 again! Saw them a couple of years later at Maple Leaf Gardens if I remember correctly...

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Of course the same group that did "Time Won't Let Me", which might of been their only charted single. Anyway here's a good summer song which probably didn't see the light of day.

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Can't get enough of songs for the best time of the year.



Some may already know this but Dino was Dean Martin Jr. and Desi was Desi Arez Jr.

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One from Donovan.

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Summer's ending but might as well type up another if not more.

This is not the Gershwin song but a different song.


Also this group does a wonderful version of The Eagles 7 Bridges.