Gimme Sum Summer Songs
As Memorial Weekend is upon us, I’m planning my Thursday night radio show (Roundtrip 7-9 pm, WNRB-LP, 93.3 FM, Wausau) to have a Summer theme. I’ve been rummaging through my collection at home to find appropriate cuts, but would welcome your input / comments / suggestions. Everyone has some song or other that just says, “summer” to them. Since, to me, ruminating on summer is a nostalgic thing, my choices will tend to be rooted deep in my past, recalling days long gone when I was a young’un. Many of these tunes will take me back to Bradford Beach in Milwaukee, my old neighborhood on the east side, bike rides and hikes, smells and sights. Below is a list of possibles for the show, but nothing’s cast in stone yet (well, some of these are dead certain to be on the show). Let me know what you think.
Happy Together - Turtles
Summer in the City - Loving Spoonful
School’s Out - Alice Cooper
Surfin USA - Beach Boys
Hot Fun In The Summertime - Sly and the Family Stone
Summertime Blues - Eddie Cochran, The Who, Blue Cheer
Up On The Roof - Drifters
Sunshine Superman - Donovan
Kokomo - Beach Boys
Do It Again – Beach Boys
California Girls – Beach Boys
Spill The Wine - Eric Burden and War
Summer – The Cars
Magic - The Cars
Summer’s Almost Gone – Doors
Street Fighting Man – Rolling Stones, Rod Stewart
In the Summertime – Mungo Jerry
Summertime, Summertime – Jamies
Hot Hot Hot - Buster Poindexter
Good Day Sunshine – Beatles
No Particular Place to Go – Chuck Berry
Goin’ Up the Country, Canned Heat
Blister in the Sun, Violent Femmes
Under the Boardwalk, Drifters
Sunny Afternoon, Kinks
Holiday, Kinks
Postcard, Bonzo Dog Band
Quiet Talks & Summer Walks, Bonzo Dog Band
Brown-Eyed Girl, Van Morrison
Dancing in the Street, Vandellas
Groovin’, Rascals
It’s a Beautiful Morning, Rascals
Rock Lobster, B-52s
Itchycoo Park, Small Faces
milwgal said:
“Boys of Summer” by Don Henley. Brings me back to my teenage/high school years in Milwaukee. I had just gotten my drivers license and everything was right with the world…
May 20th, 2008 at 8:10 am #
Tom Neal said:
When it’s summer in Milw, everything IS right with the world.
May 20th, 2008 at 10:13 am #