Did you all catch it last night??
On the finale of The Voice, Sawyer and Farrell did a duet of "Summer Breeze."
I was so happy to hear it again in a modern venue with contemporary artists performing it. It keeps this classic masterpiece alive and relevant and makes me long for my boat and Meredith Bay sunshine. Very Nice!! The Breeze Wave 'cuz i'll be wavin' back |
I heard it. They did a fabulous job. Fortunately I was out on our pontoon boat this past Sunday and I was enjoying the summer (spring???) breeze.
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I'm assuming it's Summer Breeze by Seals and Crofts?
Fantastic song by a fantastic duo. So many great songs from them during the 70's that remind me of vacations on Cape Cod when I was a kid, playing softball on the sand bars and hearing those songs come from my Mom's A.M. radio. Sorry 'bout that...I'm back now! |
What are your favorite summer songs
The previous post by Sum-r breeze made me want to start this thread.
With boats going in the water, the great stretch of weather we've had and summer fast approaching, it would be great to hear what a few of your favorite summer time songs are. I Love hearing the music I grew up with when my family vacationed on Cape Cod. I know, I know...there are so many but there's always a few that put you in that special place or remind you of summers past. Here's a few some new some old...... Seals and Crofts "Get Closer" "Hummingbird" America "Ventura Highway" Alive and Kicking "Tighter Tighter" Bee Gee's "Fanny Be Tender" (Actually anything by the Bee Gee's) Percy Faith "Theme from A Summer Place" (Mom's favorite) Spiral Staircase "I Love You More Today Than Yesterday" Michael Murphy "Wildfire" Gorillaz "Empire Ants" The Sundays "Summertime" I could go on all day............ |
Stairway to Heaven
Stairway to Heaven--not necessarily a favorite, but they always seemed to play that at the summer camp dances. I remember sweaty palms and major awkwardness when it went from a slow dance to a faster dance.
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The Boss
Thunder Road
Glory Days Born in the U.S.A |
Anything by Jimmy Buffet.
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My Bruce favs would have to be Jungleland, Darkness on The Edge of Town and Human Touch. Thanks |
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Another One
I've always considered "Born to be Wild" by Steppenwolf to be one of my favorite summer songs, going (way!) to back to my 20s:
Get your motor runnin' Head out on the highway Looking for adventure In whatever comes our way Yeah, darlin' Gonna make it happen Take the world in a love embrace Fire all of your guns at once And explode into space |
This is going to date me. THAT SUNDAY THAT SUMMER by NAT KING COLE
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Reagge tunes
Love that Bob Marley and Ziggy, and Jimmy Cliff while out on the boat, mon.
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Rag Doll ... The Four Seasons.
First heard it while cruising the CT shoreline in my AH Sprite with the top down on a warm summer evening. |
I gotta agree with CateP ..... "Stairway to Heaven" has got to be at the top of my list ..... but ..... followed closely by:
2) "Communication Breakdown" <--- playing this repetitively at (or above) the threshold of pain got me kicked out of my grandmother's home in Melvin during the summer of 1970 3) "Lay Lady Lay" <--- fortunately I found alternative room accommodations sleeping in the attic of Wawbeek Cottage Colony's office (thank you, Chet Fernald!). This song helped me to feel sorry for myself and always kinda put me in the zone 4) "Hey Joe" 5) "Love is Blue" <--- I'll bet no one remembers this one (I won't bore you ..... it's a long story!) |
Well......"Summertime"....is my favorite summer time song!!
either Janis Joplin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guKoNCQFAFk or.....Billie Holiday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guKoNCQFAFk depending on the mood. "Summer time....and the living is easy....the fish are jumpin'........." |
Going way back
I guess these 2 really date me, but the songs that bring me back to past summers are:
Pat Boone's "Love Letters in the Sand" & Bobby Vinton's "Roses are Red" |
Wayward Wind -Dodie Grant
It played all summer when I was a kid on Lake Matawanakee.
Anything Roy Orbison |
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Love all the responses. Great songs |
I was...
let's just say "younger"... and standing in front of the TV late one summer night watching Midnight Special or maybe In Concert or maybe it was Rock Concert, and these two unusual dudes were getting ready to perform. One was wearing an unusual hat. Just as I was about to utter "WTF?" They started to play. I sat down and listened. WOW! |
Beach Boys
Too many to list them all ... the song list on their Endless Summer album is a good start.
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Love and Happiness - Marc Broussard and anything Joe Bonamassa
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Little Big Town's "Pontoon," Chuck Wick's "Old School," and Jack Johnson's "Escape (Pina Colada Song)."
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I fear I remember it...
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Oh, and mine" Cuz there ain't no cure for the Summertime Blues." Eddie Cochran, and then Alan Jackson years later. |
"And When She Smiles" by the Wild Weeds
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"Boys of Summer" by Don Henly.
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"Save Your Heart For Me" (walk along the lake with someone new) by Gary Lewis and the Playboys (1965). Oh yes- summer love!
Another song with good lake memories is: "little Red Rented Row Boat" ( 1962) by Joe Dowell. This song brings back memories because when I was young summer tourists rented cabins in Green's Basin. Each cabin came with a red row boat. I use to see everyone rowing around. |
Anything Eagles
Love Hotel California!
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my Favorite
Sting "Brand New Day"
Everyday is a new day on the lake |
If you like instrumentals from the 70's check out these two great ones.
Mantovani "Theme From Midnight Cowboy" Tony Hatch "Soal Coaxing" Another great summer song is "Suavecito" by Malo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=epu7j6VDSTE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zuxuV1C8Ws https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qmTNKNcGOQU |
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I love "Mountain Time" If you like Joe you should check out a band he was in recently called "Black Country Communion" with Glenn Hughes from Deep Purple on lead vocals and and Jason Bonham on drums. Great stuff! Check out Glenn Hughes at 7:08. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iz0FV9QS5tA |
Always liked this Otis Redding song.
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summer songs
Old Cape Cod
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVEflapTrOM Dan |
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I remember that song "Wayward Wind". It was playing the morning I woke up knowing we were leaving Lake Winni that day to go back home to NJ. Have mixed emotions when I hear that song now. |
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This link isn't Midnight Special but a great performance of "Get Closer" none the less www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlD3zN_vzrs |
Not your typical summer song, but - - -
Whte Christmas! Yeah, I know. But here's 'the rest of the story' as they say:
I was in a carload of campers returning to Camp Treasure Island from a hootenanny (you all remember those, right??) in the early 60s, and of course we were singing our favorite folk songs. At several points we briefly ran out of songs to sing. I do Not remember how White Christmas came into the picture, but it did, and we kept repeating "and may all your Christmases be white" until we could come up with the next song to sing. And yeah, we gave that refrain quite a workout, over and over. And so every time I hear the song, I think back to that wonderful car trip in NH. Ah, the memories - Thanks for the excuse to bring them back. |
1966 Rock
All round people lookin half dead
walkin up a sidewalk hotter than a match head John Sebastian's hit Summer in the City! |
Sailing
by Christopher Cross, and Smooth Jazz always enhanced the Beauty of The Lake for me...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQeqmNbA2Hs#t=133 Norman Brown, Up 'N' At 'EM... http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=...265BAFC03B55F8 Terry ___________________________________ |
What a great thread expansion!!
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Chicago Carly Simon Doobies Beatles Bread Fleetwood Mac John Denver (A fav) Here's 2 really good newer songs for you to check out https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yv4YL2-4mBM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=If7d4dHigYY |
Summer iPod playlist
Some of my faves for summertime cruising include:
Danger - JJ Cale & Eric Clapton Freeway of Love - Aretha Love Shack - B52s Roam - B52s Say Hey (I Love You) - Michael Franti & Spearhead The Sound of Sunshine - M Franti/Spearhead Soak Up the Sun - Sheryl Crow Get Out the Map - Indigo Girls In These Shoes - Kirsty MacColl One Big Love - Patty Griffin |
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If you like Love is Blue then hopefully you'll know this one https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7kjH0PcE5A |
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My son did a GoPro video featuring that Song. |
Hello Stranger -- Barbara Lewis
The definition of "wistful." A work of genius. Brings back all past summers. |
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No one mentioned Summer in the City by Lovin Spoonful?
But Summertime by Janis Joplin is great; no disrespect to the WHO List could go on, but as Steve says this is fun |
On our first outing of the year, as we leave the marina and go under the covered bridge to Little Squam I put on Frank Sinatras Summer Wind....It's timeless.
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"Sunny Afternoon" by The Kinks. Good song to play on the guitar at barbecues.
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Boys of summer...yes, yes....
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Oh, and by the way guys.....ill be up tomorrow night!!! First week of summer for my family!!! |
See you in September and Red rubber ball always bring me back to childhood summers in Milton NH at the Pines and the Pond camps and Lakehurst cottages.:)
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And if you like Ray Davies and the Kinks please check out this song called "Days" that he does live in Glastonbury England. It's about one of the founding members of the Kinks and though he wrote in 1968 he gets choked up in the beginning. I think of my mentor "Ketch" every time I hear it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcZNOdXcUSY |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEUJBQ1uI4M Also, for the record, I think my favriote summer song is Nat King Cole, "Lazy, Crazy, Hazy Days of Summer". Just hearing it makes me want to go to the beach or out in the boat. |
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Sorry, I confused the songs. The Who did a version of Sumertime Blues, not bad, but hard to beat the original.
This thread is going to develop into a playlist on my iPod! |
Not sure of the time frame but one of our [my wife and I] favorite summer songs was STARLAND VOCAL BAND, AFTERNOON DELIGHT. My kids could never understand why we liked it so much. And we never told them either.
Wayward Wind by Gogie Grant is one of my all time favorites but long before the 70's. So many good memories on this thread and many from our days of camping at Gunstock every summer for many years. |
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I'm surprised nobody mentioned listening to a baseball game on the radio. I mean really does it get any better?
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Mungo Jerry!
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Only 24 million views on You Tube |
This is always good in the summer
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A Couple:
- Walking on the Sun (Smash Mouth)
- Sunny Afternoon (The Kinks) |
from my summers in nh on sandy point beach in the late 50's and 60's:
surf city- jan & dean A summer place - Percy faith Blame it on the bossa nova - Edie gormet Dawn - the four seasons Stranger on the shore - Acker bilk Time for livin' - the association Elenore Rigby - the Beatles Wishin' and hoping - dusty Springfield really anything from the beach boys Summer samba- Walter wanderley Sealed with a kiss - Bryan hyland So much more..we used to save up all year to spend a week at sandy point beach in Alton bay..unforgettable memories retired up here now |
Come On Down To My Boat Baby by Every Mother's Son. A one hit wonder, but a great summer song!
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Chad & Jeremy "A Summer Song"
Hi, new here, but a lurker for years. Have not seen any one come up with one of my favorites from 1964, I was 13.
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Neil Young's "Mid-night on the Bay"
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Summertime by New Kids on the Block,
Low by FloRida Hott in Herre by Nelly Dilemma by Nelly Fever by Kylie Minogue Rendezvous at Sunset by Kylie Minogue I Really Like You by Carly Rae Jepsen Summertime Sadness Lana Del Rey I like the newer stuff lol |
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Little Big Town - Pontoon - and Day drinkin'
Sunny Ledfurd - Pontoon Boat Zac Brown - Toes, and Knee deep Craig Morgan - Redneck Yacht club David Lee Murphy - Dust On The Bottle Aaron Lewis - Country Boy Alan Jackson - Chatahoochie, and It's five o'clock somewhere Blake Shelton - Some Beach, and Kiss my country --- Brad Paisley - Mud on the tires Dierks Bentley - Am I the only one Eric Church - Drink in my hand Gretchen Wilson - Here for the party, and Redneck woman Jason Aldean - 1994, Hicktown, and Dirt road anthem Jim Croce - Rapid Roy, Bad, Bad Leroy Brown, and You don't mess around with Jim Josh Thompson - Way out here, and Beer on the table Luke Bryan - Country Girl, and Drunk on You Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme three steps Marty Stuart - Hillbilly rock Montgomery Gentry - Something to be proud of, He-- Yeah, and One in every crowd Kid Rock - All summer long Trace Adkins - Just fishin Tracy Byrd - I'm from the country, Watermelon Crawl, and Saltwater cowboy Waylon Jennings - I've always been crazy ZZ top Greatest hits album |
Summer Song
Although I was only 5 when this song came out,my older sisters were teenagers. The AM radio was always on or they were playing their 45 records (I remember the case they carried them around in). Chad and Jeremy will always get my vote! :)
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"Summer" by War
My two favorites are "Summer Breeze" by Seals and Krofts and "Summer" by War. These are in my "Summer Mix" on my MP-3 Player..
Ridin' 'round town with all the windows down Eight track playin' all your fav'right sounds The rhythm of the bongos fill the park The street musicians tryin' to get a start 'Cause it's summer Summer time is here Yes it's summer My time of year Yes it's summer My time of year Stretched out on a blanket in the sand Kids of all ages diggin' Disneyland Rappin' on the C.B. radio in your van We'll give a big "ten four" to the truckin' man 'Cause it's summer Summer time is here Yes it's summer My time of year Yes it's summer My time of year Young boys playin' stick ball in the street Fire hydrants help to beat the heat Old man feeding pigeons in the square Nighttime finds young lovers walking there 'Cause it's summer Summer time is here Yes it's summer My time of year Yes it's summer My time of year In Atlantic City or out in Malibu Or any where between, I'm telling you When you feel those balmy breezes on your face Summer time is the best time any place 'Cause it's summer Summer time is here Yes it's summer My time of year Yes it's summer My time of year :) |
It honestly depends on what I'm doing.
On the lake or in the truck? Frank Foster Eric Church Whiskey Myers Ryan Bingham In the shop or yard work? Slayer MetallicA (old stuff) Slipknot (old school) Godsmack Soil |
Soft Summer Breeze
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Youngbloods
A timeless classic from 1970 that this world should listen more to...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRAhTY3Dwl0 Dan |
Great song
It was Aug. 1969, we were on our way to climbing Mt Washington. I was 18. We head this several times. Great times. Real groovy
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So many songs instantly trigger a memory. That first guitar note or piano chord and it's like its yesterday. What's any better than that. Fantastic! Thanks for posting it. |
Julio Iglesis & Frank Sinatra..."Summerwind"
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No more pencils, No more books, no more teacher's dirty looks!
The Best Summer songs of all time according to Rolling Stone
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/li...chran-19691231 Working for a school system for the last 40 years how could I have possibly forgotten "School's Out for the Summer"????? (Alice Cooper) :confused: <!-- / message --><!-- sig --> __________________ |
Resurrecting this thread. It's just too good
How 'bout these
"Sunday Morning Coming Down" by Johnny Cash"? "The Weight" by The Band "Summer" by John Denver (Anything by him actually) Here's a couple of recent tunes that I think are excellent Summer tunes. "Windows are Rolled Down" by Amos Lee "Stay a Little Longer" by Brothers Osborne |
More summer songs
Little Red Riding Hood - Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs
Sgt Pepper Album - Beatles Light my Fire - The Doors Time has Come today - The Chambers Bros. Wipe Out - Surfaris We used to sing Peter, Paul, and Mary, and Kingston Trio songs when cruising around Alton Bay at night. |
Pontoon
By Little Big Town
On the pontoon Makin' waves and catchin' rays up on the roof Jumpin' out the back, don't act like you don't want to Party in slow motion Out here in the open Mm, motorboatin' Reach your hand down into the cooler Don't drink it if the mountains aren't blue Try to keep it steady as you recline on your black inner tube |
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