Good evening, and welcome to your selection of songs about Summer. OK, technically it’s not Summer yet, but it’s on the way. Hope you’re all enjoying the Bank Holiday, if you have one.
If you have an Earworm you’d like to share, please send an .mp3, .m4a or a link to adempster73@gmail.com, together with a few words about why you’ve chosen it. Next week’s theme will be colour – any colour you like – and worms should reach me by close of play on Sunday 4 June.
Many thanks to all contributors – stay sane!
Daughters of Reykjavik – Hot MILF Summer – DebbyM: There’s nothing like some feminist Icelandic rap when the sun is shining.
Les Negresses Vertes – Voilà l’été – DebbyM: A song from my distant youth.
Uche Yara – Honey Come Find Me – DebbyM: A new discovery from a recent music festival; I believe a summer breeze gets mentioned in this song.
The Full English – Brigg Fair – Suzi: ‘It was on the fifth of August, the weather hot and fair/ Unto Brigg Fair I did repair, for love I was inclined.’ The voice of Joseph Taylor, recorded in the early 20th century, begins and ends this instrumental version. A lot briefer than Delius’s orchestral piece, but very lovely and evocative of the countryside in summer.
The Kinks – Sunny Afternoon – Suzi: Feel fairly sure that someone else will nominate this classic, but just in case, here it is.
Bert Jansch – Summer Heat – Suzi: I know I sent this in fairly recently, for songs about heat, but hopefully it bears listening to again.
Oscar Peterson – Summertime – tincanman: … and the living’s easy. If not, this will help ease all your troubles. Oscar never fails to soothe me.
Kinks – Drivin’ – tincanman: World getting you down? Ray suggests a leisurely summer drive.
Lost T Shirts of Atlantis – Last Summer – severin: I used to love seeing this band live in the 1990s. But I don’t think they released any of their songs until much later. This one is suitably lazy and hazy.
Kuricorder Quartet – The Sun and Straw Hat (Summer) – severin: I’ve run out of things to say about them. They’re quirky and I love them.
Pink Floyd – Summer ’68 – severin: The song hardly exists but what they make of it is rather epic.
Chet Baker – Summer Sketch – severin: Another instrumental evoking the feeling of lazing in the sunshine or the shade.
Janis Joplin – Summertime – glassarfemptee: Janis at the top of her game. What a loss.
Jimi Hendrix – Lullaby for the Summer – glassarfemptee: Another who went far too early. Here’s Jimi.
Lana del Ray – Summertime Sadness – glassarfemptee: Lana del Rey has a new album out that I’ve not heard yet. But here’s a track from Born to Die.
Violators – Summer of 81 – wyngatecarpenter: Summer usually seems to mean riots in punk songs.
Pink Floyd – Granchester Meadows – MaggieB: “The one with the bee”. Such a gentle song.
The Cyrkle – Turn Down Day – Fintan28: Somewhere there’s a beach on a desert lake and an orange paisley bikini. This is the song will be playing in a loop. Always.
Peter Gabriel – Summertime – LongTallSilly: I know lazing posting, but the living is easy right now.
Ambrose and his Orchestra – The Sun Has Got His Hat On – AliM: OK, not about summer per se, but it captures the feel.
Hilliard Ensemble – Sumer is icumen in – AliM: Song from c.1260, which is going back a bit, even for me. Sing cuckoo!
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