Summer Songs

[Scheherazade]

http://www.3featheredfriends.net/forums/images/smilies/happy_sun.gif Happy Summer Solstice to one and all! http://www.3featheredfriends.net/forums/images/smilies/happy_sun.gif

Please list our favorite summer songs (a link to youtube would be nice)

and

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[EricP]

"Summertime" - Miles Davis

[papayahed]

Summertime - DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_PDns23RWY


Dancin' in the Streets - Martha and the Vandellas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-EKd2n0urs&feature=related

[Lily Adams]

Any DEVO music because anytime is Dev-O time because we're all Dev-O, potatoes and tomatoes.

Plus I discovered them in the summer.


Hahahahaha.

[Weisinheimer]

Summer in the City ~ The Lovin' Spoonful (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4mD4nh21q0&feature=related)

Summersong ~ The Decemberists (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xw0hbImm2IM)

[Sweets America]

Summertime, by Janis Joplin, that is just GRAND:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzNEgcqWDG4&feature=related

and Dice, by Finley Quaye, just because this one reminds me of summer, and I LOVE this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQ_y97nouX4

[Scheherazade]

"Summertime" - Miles DavisLove that one, especially sung by Ella Fitzgerald... That and "It's Only A Paper Moon. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-omy7KrfJA).


Summer in the City ~ The Lovin' Spoonful (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4mD4nh21q0&feature=related)Yay! :D I first heard this song when I was 7-8 (it was the tune for a deodorant commercial on TV and I loved it)

Also, this. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UF3Y1k2Q6g)

How about some Grease? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIB44syYjmo)

[barbara0207]

In the Summertime by Mungo Jerry:

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=zc9wIzi96_E

and Warm San Franciscan Nights by The Animals

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=vxiGZ1csCAg

They're very old (about 40 years, I think), but they're still very good. :)

[Scheherazade]

In the Summertime by Mungo Jerry:

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=zc9wIzi96_E

and Warm San Franciscan Nights by The Animals

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=vxiGZ1csCAg

They're very old (about 40 years, I think), but they're still very good. :)Oh, thanks for reminding me of those as well! Especially Mungo Jerry's song! :thumbs_up

And very old you say??? Like yesterday to me! ;)

[Virgil]

In the Summertime by Mungo Jerry:

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=zc9wIzi96_E



Barbara, I was just about to post the Mungo Jerry song. In The Summertime is the quitessential summer song and how I know summer is really here. :)

Ok, my next choice is "Sunny Afternoon" by The Kinks. I include youtube video and lyrics.


Sunny Afternoon
by the Kinks

The taxman's taken all my dough
and left me in my stately home
lazin' on a sunny afternoon.
And I can't sail my yacht
he's taken ev'rything I've got;
all I've got's this sunny afternoon.
Save me
save me
save me from this squeeze
I've got a big fat mama
tryin' to break me.
And I love to live so pleasantly
live this life of luxury:
lazin' on a sunny afternoon
in the Summertime
in the summertime
in the summertime.
My girlfriend's run off with my car
and gone back to her ma and pa
tellin' tales of
drunkenness and cruelty.
Now I'm sittin' here
sipping at my ice-cooled beer
lazin' on a sunny afternoon.
Help me
help me
help me sail away
or give me two good
reasons why I oughta stay.
'Cause I love to live so pleasantly
live this life of luxury:
lazin' on a sunny afternoon
in the Summertime
in the summertime
in the summertime.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h1oRP7FfBw

[Pensive]

Heh sound like interesting songs. But maybe too much joyous when thinking about the weather in summer we have here. :p

Are there any summer songs with the mention of people being cooked/roasted due to hot since well there is often exaggeration in many of the songs and a little bit of exaggeration in words like this can be needed to describe the mood of a hot summer? Now that would be more like a thingy of my interest. :p

[Scheherazade]

Heh sound like interesting songs. But maybe too much joyous when thinking about the weather in summer we have here. :p

Are there any summer songs with the mention of people being cooked/roasted due to hot since well there is often exaggeration in many of the songs? Now that would be more like a thingy of my interest. :pSummer is a state of mind, young Pensive!

:p

[papayahed]

Ok, my next choice is "Sunny Afternoon" by The Kinks. I include youtube video and lyrics.


Good Choice Virgie! Even though I love it I always forget about that song. Jimmy Buffett even did a pretty good cover.

[Weisinheimer]

Ok, my next choice is "Sunny Afternoon" by The Kinks. I include youtube video and lyrics.



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h1oRP7FfBw

I don't think I'd heard this song before, but I love it :). I think I like The Kinks (really like A Well Respected Man, and Lola)

[Virgil]

I don't think I'd heard this song before, but I love it :). I think I like The Kinks (really like A Well Respected Man, and Lola)

They are great. Don't forgt "All Day and All of the Night" and "You Really Got Me" and my favorite Kinks song "Catch Me Now I'm Falling" :) I can mention more if you're interested. :D

[papayahed]

Speaking of Jimmy buffett:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_NzR5yZ1Z8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wI6ii4Lld_s&feature=related


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNrM7DnYz4Y&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oq69l32DCKs&feature=related

[Virgil]

Of course, Jimmy Buffet. :)


Here's another: "The Summer of Love" by The B52s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKPl7IYLCjg&mode=related&search

[Shalot]

School's Out ~ Alice Cooper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5h-ZN9GgHw


School's out for summer
School's out forever
School's been blown to pieces
No more pencils
No more books
No more teachers' dirty looks

:thumbs_up :)

[EricP]

Here's one of my favorites: "Sun Is Shining" by Bob Marley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrzjv121t4c&feature=related

And here's the link to the Miles Davis song I mentioned earlier in the thread:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKiOyqRK3is

[djy78usa]

I know many people have already mentioned "Summertime," but my favorite version is by Me First and The Gimme Gimmes. The beginning always reminds me of the Pulp Fiction soundtrack

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3ON7ENCgIM

My absolute favorite, though, is "Cruisin'" by Smokey Robinson. I used to love waking up early summer mornings and driving out to the beach with this song playing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HB3LO9ud5gE

[Virgil]

How about the orignal summer music. Antonio Vivaldi's "Summer" from The Four Seasons.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yY2Ugpst9VY

[EricP]

One more song that always reminds me of summer: "I've Seen It All" by Björk ft. Thom Yorke

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9zFt6M_GLo

[Weisinheimer]

They are great. Don't forgt "All Day and All of the Night" and "You Really Got Me" and my favorite Kinks song "Catch Me Now I'm Falling" :) I can mention more if you're interested. :D
Ok, so now I've spent the last 45 minutes listening to different The Kinks songs. :p Right now I'm loving: Waterloo Sunset, Dead End Street, God's Children. And I really like the first minute of Catch Me Now. ;)



School's Out ~ Alice Cooper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5h-ZN9GgHw



:thumbs_up :)
I was going to post that one. You beat me to it.



Here's one of my favorites: "Sun Is Shining" by Bob Marley
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrzjv121t4c&feature=related

:thumbs_up :thumbs_up :thumbs_up



Another song I really like that is kinda summerish is Talk of the Town by Jack Johnson
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTANCRLN6Vg)

[djy78usa]

Two more, in addition to the ones I mentioned earlier. When I was younger, my family would spend our summers down in the Florida Keys. During one of my favorite stays, I was listening to The Greatful Dead's Skeleton in the Closet and Bob Marley's Natural Mystic. So any song from either of those albums make me think of summer, but I'll just give you my favorite from each:

Friend of the Devil - Grateful Dead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7I0d-PJO-0

and Time Will Tell - Bob Marley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7kSjZ9LoIs

[Nightshade]

hummm

summer holiday -- cliff richard

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdJCtqegd8A

sunshine on my shoulders-- john denver

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFXpnirugX4

there are others that arent summery but always make me think of summer mostly because they were the background noise to 7 hour drives to the beach like

dancing in the moonlight-- ( the top loader version)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB8eip3bgBs
Long tall galsses ( i can dance) -- leo sayer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9lbOcuTGHY&feature=related

yellow elephant-- only referance Ive ever found to it on the internet ( anyone who knows who sang this I want to know!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8oJqUg4Jqo&feature=related

the full house opening credits
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJJWJZTebrE&feature=related

the laughing policeman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI1nPd7hezM

football crazy ( possible terrible football club?)-- by Robin Hall and Jimmie McGregor

nothing on youtube but that was a fun song... ill have to dog out the cd when I get home

[SleepyWitch]

They are great. Don't forgt "All Day and All of the Night" and "You Really Got Me" and my favorite Kinks song "Catch Me Now I'm Falling" :) I can mention more if you're interested. :D

aaaww :) I'm so glad there's an old geezer like Virge and a weird chick like Sweets around here :)
I love the Kinks and Janis Joplin, too :) I think I was born 30 years late :)


A Summer Song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K39ElsNB84s) by Chad and Jeremy

[Virgil]

aaaww :) I'm so glad there's an old geezer like Virge and a weird chick like Sweets around here :)
I love the Kinks and Janis Joplin, too :) I think I was born 30 years late :)


:eek2: Old geezer?:bawling: :p

[papayahed]

:eek2: Old geezer?:bawling: :p


:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:



Connie francis:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUp4ws64_DA


And ya know I have to stick a hair band in here:

Y&T - Summertime Girls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8b2SVxOPwww

[Scheherazade]

If you haven't already fallen in love with this guy, you surely will after listening to (and watching) his rendition of this song. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qReKppA71DE)

*smiles dreamily*

[Weisinheimer]

If you haven't already fallen in love with this guy, you surely will after listening to (and watching) his rendition of this song. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qReKppA71DE)

*smiles dreamily*

oooooooh, I LOVE him. *swoons*

[Sweets America]

aaaww :) I'm so glad there's an old geezer like Virge and a weird chick like Sweets around here :)
I love the Kinks and Janis Joplin, too :) I think I was born 30 years late :)


A Summer Song (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K39ElsNB84s) by Chad and Jeremy

Weird chick? :D

Oh, and Virgil, I like Sunny Afternoon too!!

[papayahed]

If you haven't already fallen in love with this guy, you surely will after listening to (and watching) his rendition of this song. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qReKppA71DE)

*smiles dreamily*

Nice One!!!

[Virgil]

Has anyone mentioned The Beach Boys? You can't have summer in the USA without Beach Boys music.

Surfin USA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbRKfieMsdQ&feature=related

Good Vibrations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC2gZMNkyJo&feature=related

California Girls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LmxtcVklQc

I Get Around
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN7Xs9WVNBU&feature=related


Scher - I was looking for Kokomo, but I couldn't find a version. Good thing you found one. Summer wouldn't be the same with it. :D

[Scheherazade]

Virgil> "Kokomo" by The Beach Boys (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=rbcHRLEYTl8) (though it doesn't compare to Kermit's cover).

And to end our Welcome Summer weekend: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=RTf52IsksKI



I would like to thank everyone who has taken part in our "Welcome Summer Celebration"!

Hope your summer is filled with many, many sunny days!

(I know mine won't be! :p)

[kilted exile]

Some songs that to me make it feel like summer whenever I hear them, though for many not specifically referencing summer in the lyrics:

You Stole the Sun From My Heart ~ Manic Street Preachers (http://youtube.com/watch?v=jwZ6MzvDVf0) (I was at this performance - 17y.o. just graduated high school & pissing around at festivals befroe starting & dropping out of Glasgow Uni)

Red Red Wine - UB40
(http://youtube.com/watch?v=Rg1iEBWxVeQ) (memories of being in the cadets at camp in the summer)

Breakfast at Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something (http://youtube.com/watch?v=sDwmCFgoiE8) (more just memories of a summer)


Scooby Snacks - Fun Lovin' Criminals (http://youtube.com/watch?v=JVSrPEL_zmk) (another of the festivals I enjoyed that year - warning lyrics)

Margaritaville ~ Jimmy Buffet (http://youtube.com/watch?v=T1GVIcKvZSM)

Summer of '69 ~ Bryan Adams (http://youtube.com/watch?v=vOuuszturW8)




football crazy ( possible terrible football club?)-- by Robin Hall and Jimmie McGregor

nothing on youtube but that was a fun song... ill have to dog out the cd when I get home

I know that:


FOOTBALL CRAZY

1. I have a favourite brother
And his Christian name is Paul.
He's lately joined a football club
For he's mad about football.
He's two black eyes already
And teeth lost from his gob,
Since Paul became a member of
That terrible football club.

CHORUS: For he's football crazy. he's football mad.
The football it has taken away
The little bit o' sense he had.
And it would take a dozen servants
To wash his clothes and scrub
Since Paul became a member of that
Terrible football club.

2. In the middle of the field one afternoon
The captain says, 'Now Paul,
Would you kindly take this place-kick
Since you're mad about football?
So he took forty paces backwards,
Shot off from the mark.
The ball went sailing over the bar
And landed in New Yark.

3. His wife she says she'll leave him
If Paulie doesn't keep
Away from football kicking
At night-time in his sleep.
He calls out 'Pass, McGinty!'
And other things so droll
Last night he kicked her out of bed
And swore it was a goal!

[papayahed]

Some songs that to me make it feel like summer whenever I hear them, though for many not specifically referencing summer in the lyrics:

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Breakfast at Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something (http://youtube.com/watch?v=sDwmCFgoiE8) (more just memories of a summer)


Scooby Snacks - Fun Lovin' Criminals (http://youtube.com/watch?v=JVSrPEL_zmk) (another of the festivals I enjoyed that year - warning lyrics)

Margaritaville ~ Jimmy Buffet (http://youtube.com/watch?v=T1GVIcKvZSM)

Summer of '69 ~ Bryan Adams (http://youtube.com/watch?v=vOuuszturW8)



Fun Lovin' Criminals???? How could I forget about Scooby snacks!!!:yawnb:

[Scheherazade]

Breakfast at Tiffany's - Deep Blue Something (http://youtube.com/watch?v=sDwmCFgoiE8) (more just memories of a summer)This is one of my favorite songs of all times... Love the movie, love the song (though this song has nothing to do with the movie.)

[barbara0207]

Has anyone mentioned The Beach Boys? You can't have summer in the USA without Beach Boys music.



That's right, Virgil. I was just going to post the Beach Boys when I saw you had already done so. But there's one more BB song that I associate with summer: Fun Fun Fun. :)

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=iz9c5b72KJ4

And of course you're right about the Kinks - great songs.

[novelsryou]

I don't think anyone mentioned this one - All Day Music by War. Probably my all time Summer favorite.

[Nightshade]

I thought of another one as I was treking through the glorious ( well maybe slightly too hot ) day.

Walking on sunshine (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eONhto0x_nI)

Although I only know the chorus....


I'm walking on sunshine , wooah
I'm walking on sunshine, woooah
I'm walking on sunshine, woooah
and don't it feel good!!

[kasie]

Has anyone mentioned The Beach Boys? You can't have summer in the USA without Beach Boys music. :D

Oh, the Beach Boys - my Lost Youth - thank you, Virgil, I've just spent a nostalgic few minutes watching these - those were the days......:)

[EricP]

"(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" -- Otis Redding

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzrXc68gNjQ

[sprinks]

Well to me, summer always means kinda mellow music. I love summer days in Australia. (although it is still winter here! :p)

Here's one of my favourite mellow summer songs: New Shoes by Paolo Nutini:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hmbUNF1Q4R8

Also this is a newish one, Daylight by Kelly Rowland ft. Travis McCoy of Gym Class Heroes, but I like it and it'll be something I listen to this summer, and it makes me think of summer :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yd6kSXKo-4

And this one - they made this before they got big, hence the not so good quality! :p (I always listen to this in summer, fond memories with it :)) Taxi Driver by Gym Class Heroes http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGYCY48Tugw (some of you might find all the references to bands - there's over 30 band names mentioned!)

I know there's heaps of songs that I listen to in summer, but since it's the middle of winter I can't think of what most of them are! (And I never noticed before that I listen to different music in different seasons! :p)

[Scheherazade]

Eric> I love "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay"! :thumbs_up


I don't know how but I forgot to mention this one, which is one of my favorite summer songs (which is known by very few, interestingly enough - of course, there is always the possibility that those who have heard it are trying desperately to sweep it under their conscious :p):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YCFN2PID1B4&feature=related

[LadyWentworth]

Well, there are MANY songs that remind me of summer. Especially of summertime during my childhood. This song in particular :D :

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

But if we are talking about just summer themed songs, I immediately thought of "A Summer Song" (Chad & Jeremy) and "Summer in the City" (The Lovin' Spoonful). Those have already been mentioned. I don't believe this one has been yet, though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRTbugyDq-E
LOVE this song!!!

Nor has this one been mentioned:

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

Great piece of music right there! :D Bad movie, though. :sick: Anyway, I have always liked the instrumental version so much more than the vocal version. One of my all-time favorites. :)

[Nightshade]

Well, there are MANY songs that remind me of summer. Especially of summertime during my childhood. This song in particular :D :

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


I cant see it :bawling: what is it Lady W
( also isnt i winter now for you ? How can it be too hot? :confused: )

[LadyWentworth]

I cant see it :bawling: what is it Lady W
( also isnt i winter now for you ? How can it be too hot? :confused: )

Oh, it is just Kool and the Gang's "Celebration". :D Can you see it yet? I wonder why it doesn't work. :confused:

No, it is most definitely summer where I live! :sick: At least the humidity is down. So it doesn't feel as bad today. :) I'm in America, by the way. :) Isn't it Australia that has winter now? Or am I wrong? I can never get that right. :p

[EricP]

Here's a couple of my other favorites:

"Everybody Loves the Sunshine" -- Roy Ayers (Check out the cool instrument Ayers is using called the kat!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJUHaZ69igA

"My Favorite Things" -- John Coltrane
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_n-gRS_wdI

[sprinks]

Isn't it Australia that has winter now? Or am I wrong? I can never get that right. :p

Yep thats right!! :) 'tis winter here. Not that the weather really shows it... The past 2 days have been really hot for a few hours, then it rains for a few hours, then it's hot for a few hours, then it rains for a few hours...
Spring starts in September, so theres only one more winter month :)

[kelby_lake]

'Rio' by Duran Duran
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=q7VjrW5zgqQ

Ultimate summer song! Gorgeous yacht, gorgeous beaches, and funny suits :)