What are your favorite summer songs

rander7823 · 05-19-2015, 03:46 PM

Thunder Road
Glory Days
Born in the U.S.A

MAXUM · 05-19-2015, 03:48 PM

Anything by Jimmy Buffet.

dippasan · 05-19-2015, 04:03 PM

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Originally Posted by MAXUM

Anything by Jimmy Buffet.

I had heard that the song Margaritaville is a true story and he wrote it in 5 minutes in the doctors waiting area after he "cut his heal and had to cruise on back home"

dippasan · 05-19-2015, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by rander7823

Thunder Road
Glory Days
Born in the U.S.A

Gotta love Bruce
My Bruce favs would have to be Jungleland, Darkness on The Edge of Town and Human Touch.

Thanks

DRH · 05-19-2015, 04:09 PM

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

barefootbay · 05-19-2015, 04:15 PM

This is going to date me. THAT SUNDAY THAT SUMMER by NAT KING COLE

Nagigator · 05-19-2015, 04:39 PM

Love that Bob Marley and Ziggy, and Jimmy Cliff while out on the boat, mon.

JTA · 05-19-2015, 04:42 PM

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.

rgilfert · 05-19-2015, 04:54 PM

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!)

upthesaukee · 05-19-2015, 10:39 PM

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Originally Posted by rgilfert

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!)

"Blue, Blue, my love is blue..."

Oh, and mine" Cuz there ain't no cure for the Summertime Blues." Eddie Cochran, and then Alan Jackson years later.

dippasan · 05-20-2015, 06:26 AM

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Originally Posted by rgilfert

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!)

Love is Blue is fantastic. I forgot about that one. I think there's an instrumental version and vocal version. I have to download that one.

Thanks

dippasan · 05-20-2015, 06:35 AM

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

Bear Islander · 05-20-2015, 06:41 AM

Indian Lake - summer 1968 - The Cowsills

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qw7ubMgByYQ

rgilfert · 05-20-2015, 01:23 PM

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Originally Posted by dippasan

Love is Blue is fantastic. I forgot about that one. I think there's an instrumental version and vocal version. I have to download that one.

Great memory, Dippasan! You're right but it was the instrumental version that had special meaning to me.

dippasan · 05-20-2015, 01:44 PM

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Originally Posted by dippasan

Love is Blue is fantastic. I forgot about that one. I think there's an instrumental version and vocal version. I have to download that one.

Great memory, Dippasan! You're right but it was the instrumental version that had special meaning to me.

I downloaded it this morning. So good!

If you like Love is Blue then hopefully you'll know this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7kjH0PcE5A

rgilfert · 05-20-2015, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by rgilfert

I downloaded it this morning. So good!

If you like Love is Blue then hopefully you'll know this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7kjH0PcE5A

Another "keeper" .... but dial it back to 1960 .... howz abouts this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAEciccQlF0

dippasan · 05-20-2015, 02:01 PM

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Originally Posted by dippasan

Another "keeper" .... but dial it back to 1960 .... howz abouts this one? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAEciccQlF0

OUtstanding! Thanks for that!

Geez am I having fun with this thread.

salty dog · 05-21-2015, 09:54 AM

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Originally Posted by dippasan

Love is Blue is fantastic. I forgot about that one. I think there's an instrumental version and vocal version. I have to download that one.

Thanks

It is a great song. Was 16, I think when it came out. I loved so much I learned it on the piano and can still play it. (Paul Mauriat). Try this live version...

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.

JMR · 05-21-2015, 11:03 AM

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!

Jersey Ed · 05-21-2015, 12:26 PM

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.

dippasan · 05-21-2015, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Jersey Ed

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.

Ha Ha!! Good one, re-invented by Matt Damon in the movie Good Will Hunting.

Thanks

MAXUM · 05-21-2015, 01:51 PM

I'm surprised nobody mentioned listening to a baseball game on the radio. I mean really does it get any better?

ishoot308 · 05-21-2015, 01:52 PM

Can't believe no one said this one yet...

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

MAXUM · 05-21-2015, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by ishoot308

Can't believe no one said this one yet...

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

Little too cheesy for my musical palate, for those that do like it - may rate as an unspoken guilty pleasure.

rander7823 · 05-21-2015, 03:11 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BX3bN5YeiQs

dippasan · 05-21-2015, 03:08 PM

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Originally Posted by ishoot308

Can't believe no one said this one yet...

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

Yup...add it to the play list.
Only 24 million views on You Tube

dickiej · 05-21-2015, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by MAXUM

I'm surprised nobody mentioned listening to a baseball game on the radio. I mean really does it get any better?

Spent summers in Maine......used to listen to Yankee games on an old transistor radio sleeping on the porch.....Mantle, DiMaggio, Yogi,......the happiest time of my youth!

Pricestavern · 05-21-2015, 09:29 PM

- Walking on the Sun (Smash Mouth)
- Sunny Afternoon (The Kinks)

mcdude · 05-19-2015, 04:59 PM

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'........."

ghfromaltonbay · 05-19-2015, 05:18 PM

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"

Island Girl · 05-19-2015, 05:44 PM

It played all summer when I was a kid on Lake Matawanakee.

Anything Roy Orbison

dippasan · 05-19-2015, 06:05 PM

Wow
Love all the responses. Great songs

LongBay · 05-19-2015, 07:48 PM

Too many to list them all ... the song list on their Endless Summer album is a good start.

Misha888 · 05-19-2015, 07:51 PM

Love and Happiness - Marc Broussard and anything Joe Bonamassa

dippasan · 05-20-2015, 06:56 AM

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Love and Happiness - Marc Broussard and anything Joe Bonamassa

You're right about Joe Bonnamassa. He's unreal. Saw him in concert in Boston.
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

SIKSUKR · 05-20-2015, 07:30 AM

Always liked this Otis Redding song.

ishoot308 · 05-20-2015, 07:47 AM

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Originally Posted by dippasan

You're right about Joe Bonnamassa. He's unreal. Saw him in concert in Boston.
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

Joe is an incredible guitar player! I also saw him in Boston a few years ago. Glenn Hughes is my absolute favorite singer, songwriter, by far. Seen him a few times in different locations over the years. The most memorable was at BB Kings Blues Club in NYC. He is truly one of a kind! Here's one of his ballads and one of my favorites...

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

Dan

Janet · 05-20-2015, 08:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Island Girl

It played all summer when I was a kid on Lake Matawanakee.

Anything Roy Orbison

Island Girl,

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.

bclaker · 05-19-2015, 10:07 PM

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Originally Posted by mcdude

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'........."

I'll go for that one, but with Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitsgerald.

8gv · 05-19-2015, 10:40 PM

"And When She Smiles" by the Wild Weeds

8gv · 05-19-2015, 10:42 PM

"Boys of Summer" by Don Henly.

Greene's Basin Girl · 05-20-2015, 12:04 AM

"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.

Lakewinn1 · 05-20-2015, 05:17 AM

Love Hotel California!

smith point boater · 05-20-2015, 06:29 AM

Sting "Brand New Day"

Everyday is a new day on the lake

glennsteely · 05-21-2015, 03:07 AM

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Originally Posted by 8gv

"boys of summer" by don henly.

cuts like a knife, summer of 69 by brian adams......that is summer music!!!

Oh, and by the way guys.....ill be up tomorrow night!!! First week of summer for my family!!!

minni on winni · 05-21-2015, 06:40 AM

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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rander7823 Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 303 Thanks: 550 Thanked 40 Times in 24 Posts	The Boss Thunder Road Glory Days Born in the U.S.A

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DRH Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Meredith, NH Posts: 1,687 Thanks: 1,203 Thanked 677 Times in 179 Posts	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 __________________ DRH

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dippasan Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Hooksett NH and Sleepers Isl Posts: 392 Thanks: 288 Thanked 190 Times in 83 Posts	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 __________________ Luck is when preparedness meets opportunity Last edited by dippasan; 05-20-2015 at 07:13 AM.

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JMR Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Hampton & Rattlesnake Island Posts: 175 Thanks: 33 Thanked 70 Times in 32 Posts	Oops 2 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!

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MAXUM Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Kuna ID Posts: 2,755 Thanks: 246 Thanked 1,942 Times in 802 Posts	Anything by Jimmy Buffet.

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rgilfert Senior Member Join Date: Mar 2012 Location: Bedford, NH / Rattlesnake Island Posts: 299 Thanks: 152 Thanked 227 Times in 57 Posts	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!)

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Jersey Ed Member Join Date: Oct 2014 Posts: 24 Thanks: 231 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post	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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mcdude Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Rock Haven Lake - West Newfield, ME Posts: 5,367 Thanks: 374 Thanked 1,057 Times in 495 Posts	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'........." __________________

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