June 20, 2024 – Summer

“In summer, the song sings itself.” — William Carlos Williams

“Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.” — C. Day Lewis

“Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.”  — Sam Keen

“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.”  — Wallace Stevens

“And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” 

— F. Scott Fitzgerald “The Great Gatsby”

PLAYLIST:

00:00:00 Sly & The Family Stone – Hot Fun in the Summertime 

00:05:00 The Jamies – Summertime

00:07:00 Chad & Jeremy – A Summer Song 

00:09:35 Les Paul & Mary Ford – In The Good Old Summertime 

00:11:42 Eddie Cochran – Summertime Blues 

00:13:18 Donovan –  Summer Day Reflection Song 

00:15:47 Nat King Cole – Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days Of Summer 

00:18:09 HAIM – Summer Girl – Bonus Track 

00:21:38 The Lovin’ Spoonful – Summer in the City

00:24:11 Phil Ochs – In the Heat of the Summer 

00:27:10 John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John –  Summer Nights – From “Grease” 

00:30:42 Jerry Keller – Here Comes Summer

00:32:51 Janis Joplin – Summertime – Live at The Woodstock Music & Art Fair August 17, 1969

00:37:55 Frank Sinatra – Summer Wind 

00:40:48 The Doors – Indian Summer 

00:43:20 The Beach Boys – All Summer Long

00:45:24 Seals and Crofts – Summer Breeze 

00:48:43 Childish Gambino – Summertime Magic 

00:52:15 Bob Dylan – Summer Days 

00:57:04 Mungo Jerry – In the Summertime 

01:00:31 Bruce Springsteen – Girls In Their Summer Clothes 

01:04:42 Johnny Rivers – Summer Rain 

01:08:30 Joni Mitchell – The Hissing of Summer Lawns 

01:11:26 Jimi Hendrix – Long Hot Summer Night 

01:14:51 Don Henley – The Boys Of Summer 

01:19:35 Van Morrison – High Summer

01:24:43 Bryan Adams -Summer of 69 (Classic Version)

01:28:50 The Doors – Summer’s Almost Gone 

01:32:41 Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong – Summertime