Everyone takes a breather in the summer, and the same is true for Rock Turtleneck. Our staff is currently on holiday, and we have many exciting posts forthcoming. To hold our dear readers over in the meantime, here are a few of the Greatest Summer Songs ever.
Sly and the Family Stone: "Hot Fun in the Summertime"
This song is the sound of fire hydrants opening up on 125th Street in the dog days of summer. Sly, in his funky generosity, also treats us to snippets of the provocative "Don't Call Me N----r, Whitey" and the unstoppable "I Want to Take You Higher."
Mungo Jerry: "In the Summertime"
One of the great One Hit Wonders of all time, Mungo Jerry reaches back to jug-band days to evoke sitting on the porch with a parasol, drinking spiked lemonade.
Lovin' Spoonful: "Summer in the City"
Some of my favorite summer memories were in Manhattan when everyone had cleared out to the Hamptons, Long Beach and the Jersey Shore, hanging with my home slices in Sheeps Meadow by day and tearing it up at night. No song better captures that feeling.
Elvis Presley: "Clambake"
Summer = Baked Mollusks, Bikinis and The King. 'Nuff said. TCB.
I'm shocked and almost insulted at the absence of LFO's "Summer Girls" in your list. Cheesy as they were, you can't argue with lines like "Billy Shakespeare wrote a whole buncha sonnets" and "I like Kevin Bacon but I hate Footloose".
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