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General Topics => Music => Topic started by: Colwyn on September 25, 2011, 17:26:24 PM

Title: Your Summer Songs
Post by: Colwyn on September 25, 2011, 17:26:24 PM

A couple of days ago I called into a pub at lunchtime to sit out in the garden and enjoy the dregs of the summer sun. On the jukebox was a song that, for me, encaptulates the essence of summer. I'm not sure why; the lyrics aren't really that good - perhaps not even PC ("Have a drink, have a drive" and stuff like that).  I can't recall any other record the group made; it was probably a one-hit wonder. But for some reason - perhaps a certain time and place in my life that has now been swallowed up in the sepia mists of the past - it remains my most evocative sound of the British summer.

Then I started thinking about what others would get into my Top 5. I get stuck when I couldn't get the list lower than six. Then I decided so rule out Sunny Afternoon by The Kinks only because it didn't have "summer" in its title. So. in ascending order, here are the five:

5. Those Lazy Hazy Crazy of Summer - Nat King Cole
4. Summertime - Paul Robeson
3. Summertime Blues - Eddy Cochran
2. Summer in the City - Lovin' Spoonful

And at the top of the list

1. In the Summertime - Mungo Jerry

OK, what about your list - for Britain, Turkey or anywhere else.

Title: Your Summer Songs
Post by: GordonA on September 25, 2011, 17:50:20 PM

Ah, Mungo Jerry, Definitely NOT "one hit wonders", Colwyn.

UK singles chart discography

    "In the Summertime" - 1970 - No. 1
    "Baby Jump" - 1971 - No. 1
    "Lady Rose" - 1971 - No. 5
    "You Don't Have to Be in the Army to Fight in the War" - 1971 - No. 13
    "Open Up" - 1972 - No. 21
    "Alright Alright Alright" - 1973 - No. 3
    "Wild Love" - 1973 - No. 32
    "Long Legged Woman Dressed in Black" - 1974 - No. 13
    "Prospects" - 1985 - No. 35 (as 'Made in England')
    "In the Summertime '87" - 1987 - Number 1 (Indie Charts/ as 'Mungo Jerry & Brothers Grimm')
    "Support the Toon - It's Your Duty" (EP incl. 'Toon Army') - 1999 - No. 57
    "In the Summertime" - 2010 - No. 16 (Dance Charts/ as Mungo Jerry & Bluestone feat. Skibadee)

They also released 20 albums in U.K. & abroad.

Title: Your Summer Songs
Post by: Colwyn on September 25, 2011, 18:02:16 PM

Ah. Gordon, either I wasn't paying attention properly at the time or my memory is getting even worse.

Title: Your Summer Songs
Post by: marina on September 25, 2011, 20:54:16 PM

Colwyn, I couldn't agree more about 'In the Summertime'  Certainly not PC as you say but always takes me back to the summer of being a carefree 18 year old and a holiday in Newquay, Cornwall!!  :D ;)

Classic summer song!

Title: Your Summer Songs
Post by: Toky on September 25, 2011, 22:29:13 PM

Top of my list is Bryan Adam's Summer of '69.
:D

Title: Your Summer Songs
Post by: farmer on September 26, 2011, 20:54:19 PM

February 1963.
Summer Holiday.

Title: Your Summer Songs
Post by: Julesp on September 26, 2011, 23:25:29 PM

It might as well rain until september

Title: Your Summer Songs
Post by: Colwyn on September 27, 2011, 10:16:54 AM

That's more of an anti-summer song!

Title: Your Summer Songs
Post by: Steve B on September 27, 2011, 10:28:36 AM

If I was to compile a 'Now that's what I call Summer' these 5 would make it onto it.

1. Summer Madness - Kool & the Gang
2. Summertime - Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince
3. Summertime - George Benson
4. Summer Breeze - The Isly Brothers
5. Summer in the City - Lovin' Spoonful