Songs!
This week’s prompt: “A song that reminds you of summertime”
This one was pretty straightforward, what with the song’s title being right there. It’s also one of the greatest songs I know. I’l let it speak for itself.
Summertime, and the livin’ is easy
Fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high
Oh, your daddy’s rich and your ma is good-lookin’
So hush, little baby, don’t you cry
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This is the classic summer song.
Also, epic Lamb Chops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUMReport
Also the classic one-hit wonder (in the US; they’ve had more hits in the UK and other countries.)Report
Periodically, fights break out on the youtubes over this particular couplet:
The argument is over whether this sexist sentiment paints the rich girl in a worse light than the poor girl, or the poor girl in a worse light than the rich girl.
“What, so you’re saying the rich girl is a hooker paid with food?”
“What, so you’re saying the poor girl doesn’t deserve to be courted?”
“There is an authenticity in being allowed to just do what one feels that is not being extended to the rich girl!”
“Authenticity, smauthenticity! If you’d be willing to spend a little money on a girl from this side of the tracks, you should be willing to spend a little money on a girl from that side of them!”
I suppose that this is why you should never read youtube comments…Report
Look at the comments about a Bach concerto sometime and see how willing ;people are to go to the mattresses over period instruments.Report
July in London, 1717… humid, buggy, and stinks to high heaven. So we’ll go floating up the Thames above the worst of the sewage on the incoming tide and listen to music.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kuw8YjSbKd4Report
If we’re going to go baroque.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g65oWFMSoK0Report
The “Song of the Summer” phenomenon where there is one song that just chases everyone around from a particular year’s Memorial Day to that same year’s Labor Day and then it disappears.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHozn0YXAeEReport
Really? MMMBop? Why don’t you just drop in The Macarena?Report
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oai1V7kaFBkReport
To answer your question, the Macarena chased me around for more than a year.
I’m specifically talking about the phenomenon of “The Song Of The Summer”.Report
I will admit to liking MMMBop. It’s catchy. It’s fun. Good choice.Report
I’m a bit puzzled as to how a 50s pastiche hit #1 on the Billboard chart after two months of Puff Daddy and Notorious B.I.G., and followed by another two months of Puff Daddy and Notorious B.I.G., but it was nice to get out of that cesspit for a couple of weeks.Report
One hit wonder from the summer of 1985. Plus “sunshine” in the title. Turns out that the band kept the royalty rights and has pulled in something like a million dollars per year from commercials and such ever since.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPUmE-tne5UReport
The radio plays an ad for paper towels with the song “Red, Red Wine”.
There was a commercial a few years back for PMS/PMDD relief products that uses “We’re Not Gonna Take It”.
A cruise ship company used Iggy Pop’s “Lust for Life” in a commercial in the 90’s. “THAT’S ABOUT HEROIN!”, I remember us joking.
Someday, “Reign In Blood” will be used in a commercial. For detergent, probably. “This can handle grass stains, food stains, even…” and then the song will play.Report
This song makes me think of the beach, so I would consider it my summertime song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OLa1uYqt9o
This would be my second choice, for essentially the same reason.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8295rOMvtQIReport
For every day I’m workin on the Illinois River
Get a half a day off with pay
Oh tow boat pickin up barges
On a long hot summer day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ahmn02Urc0cReport
A different cover version by Sara Watkins, backed by Gillian Welch and David Rawlings:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18LMMt58yowReport
Logically, I knew this couldn’t be true, but until now I was under the impression that I was the only person who listened to Sara Watkin’s solo work.Report
I’m not a huge fan of Watkin’s solo work, but I am a huge fan of her as a musician. She is a world-class fiddle player and amazing vocalist.Report
I will submit that no genre does summertime better than bro country. I’m not even a summer kind of guy, but time of year I find myself wanting to roll down the windows, blast certain songs and head for water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qg1nZe_2tRYReport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKFcPnxeyWIReport
I’m going old school and new scho-well, whatever the 90’s are considered these days:
Eddie Cochran – Summertime Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=In7z7B87Puc
Sublime, with their riff off the Summertime standard you mention:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxGh6VGxuw0Report
I got nothin’ — probably because the local weather forecast is for 1-4 inches of snow overnight. Perhaps as much as 8 inches if the European computer model is right…Report
Turn it up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIU0RMV_II8Report
Also, summertime nights are some of the best
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hi4pzKvuEQMReport
The cue is “something that reminds you of summer” and this song does that. It came out in 1973. It was the summer before my senior year in high school. I just had my first car. It was a 1964 Chevy Nova of nondescript color which prompted the remark “It’s so clean” from everyone who ever looked at it. I had two part time jobs working at Birch Bay (go ahead and google it, there’s only one) in the summer resort industry. Most summer days Birch Bay Drive would be full of people in swimsuits or shorts carrying towels or buckets and shovels (for clam digging). And I’d cruise down it going to work, or going to visit a friend at 10 mph which was the speed limit. And this song would be on the radio, because it was ubiquitous. Yes, I was sixteen that summer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkR7u_sOtHIReport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIYiGA_rIlsReport
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXpJDePIs4s
Only this cover has this power over me, but it reminds me not only of summer, but of one summer in particular…Report
Only this cover has this power over me, but it reminds me not only of summer, but of one summer in particular… (experimenting for the power of embed)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXpJDePIs4sReport
This is one that is more about “weather” than “season” but it fits. I can’t believe it’s 1989. It feels like it should be older.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T1tVvQUAcf4Report
Another classic complete with muttonchops.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5bUmx-hk-cReport
Because who doesn’t go punting down the Cam with his boombox? From the late, lamented Style Council.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CAzwewVjZ0Report
Summer of ’84 for me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTn4o2Z-vZUReport
Man, I *LOVED* that album. It was more this song, though:
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(And if I had to pick a second)
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This isn’t intended to be in the same vein as mmmmbop, but we don’t live in a deontological society do we?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1fzJ_AYajAReport
I do love this song, even if it is Bubblegum Pop.Report