On this day in 1966, the Lovin’ Spoonful hit the top of charts with “Summer in the City”. What are your favorite summer songs? Here are some videos to jog your memory:

Lovin’ Spoonful - Summer in the City
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Beach Boys

Good Vibrations (promo film)
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I Get Around (”Ready Steady Go!” UK TV performance, 1965)
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Have a Swinging Beach Party!

Frankie & Annette - Beach Party!
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Jan and Dean - Surf City (on Steve Allen)
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Fat Boys w/ the Beach Boys - Wipeout
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The B-52s - Rock Lobster
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Dick Dale & the Deltones - Miserlou
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The Drifters - Under the Boardwalk
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David Lee Roth - California Girls
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The Ramones - Rockaway Beach (live at CBGB’s)
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Martha & the Muffins - Echo Beach
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Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto - Girl from Ipanema
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Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon - Palisades Park (written by Chuck Barris)
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Chad & Jeremy - Summer Song
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Blondie - Tide is High
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Percy Faith - A Summer Place
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Ain’t No Cure for Those Summertime Blues

Ella Fitzgerald - Summertime (Berlin, 1968)
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Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues
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The Who perform “Summertime Blues” at Woodstock
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Summer of Love (or close in spirit at least)

Scott MacKenzie - San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)
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Donovan - Sunshine Superman
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Sly and the Family Stone - Hot Fun in the Summertime
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Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime
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Motown

Martha & the Vandella - Dancing in the Streets on Ed Sullivan
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The Jam cover Martha & the Vandellas’ “Heat Wave” on “American Bandstand”
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Super 70s

Summer Nights from Grease performed by Lego people
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Seals & Crofts - Summer Breeze
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Chicago - Saturday in the Park
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War - Low Rider
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MTV Classics

The Go-Go’s - Vacation
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Bananarama - Cruel Summer
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Don Henley - Boys of Summer
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The Motels – Suddenly Last Summer
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The Alarm - Rain in the Summertime
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Hip-Hop

DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince - Summertime
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Nelly - Hot in Herre
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Jenny Owen Youngs covering Hot in Herre
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Misc 90s to present

Len – Steal My Sunshine
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Pavement - Summer Babe
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Queen of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit of the Summer
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Wet Hot American Summer
Parody of 80s summer camp films. Montage sequence set to Rick Springfield’s “Love is Alright Tonight”.
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50 Years of Summer Songs
http://www.wnyc.org/music/articles/80409