'Tis midsummer, the shortest night,
But first day of summer, so say we!
To celebrate this longest light
(And lack of creativity)
To Velvet's floor, you, I invite,
To mock my rather blatant theme.
1. Asura - Like a Summer Day (10:16)
8:00
2. Tom Glazer - Why Is It Hot In The Summer? (1:33)
YOU'RE GOING TO LEARN SOMETHING.
Yep, started an hour early, maybe more so. Why not? Ten minutes of whatever before the scheduled show. I'm easy.
4. Hanoi Janes - Year of Panic - Summer of Panic (2:03)
5. Freeze Pop - Summer Boy (3:05)
6. The Jezabels - Endless Summer (4:11)
7. Kings of Convenience - Gold in the Air of Summer (3:25)
8. The Decemberists - Summersong (3:29)
9. Buffalo Daughter - Cold Summer (3:33)
10. Spinto Band - Summer Grof (2:17)
11. Electrum - It Was Summer (2:47)
12. Magic Kids - Memphis - Summer (3:51)
13. Vision Of Sunshine - Summer Sundown Woman (3:50)
14. Bananarama - Cruel Summer (3:33)
15. The B-52's - Summer Of Love (4:06)
16. Blue Oyster Cult - This Ain't The Summer Of Love (2:24)
17. Roy Zimmerman - Summer of Loving (4:47)
18. Bill Frisel - Summer Song (4:52)
19. Peter Nero - Summer Me Winter You (2:22)
20. Cliff Eberhardt - Summers in New Jersey (3:47)
They sang more than just "Money", ya know.
9:00
22. The Flying Lizards - Summertime Blues (3:33)
23. Buddy Morrow - Summer In The City (3:09)
24. Jens Lekman - Another Sweet Summer's Night On Hammer Hill (2:38)
25. Belle & Sebastian - A Summer Wasting (2:05)
26. Girls In Hawaii - summer storm (4:16)
27. Rasputina - 1816, The Year Without a Summerÿ (4:22)
28. Billie Holiday - Summertime (Organica Remix) (4:33)
29. Astrud Gilberto - So Nice (Summer Samba) (2:39)
30. N'awlins Gumbo Kings - Summertime (7:03)
31. Percy Faith - Theme From A Summer Place (2:23)
32. Judy Ongg - Lonley Summer Day (2:50)
33. Lesley Gore - Summer Symphony (2:44)
34. FLCL - Memory of Summer (B-4) (2:21)
35. Elvis Presley - Summer Kisses, Winter Tears (2:20)
36. Katsuko Kanai - Summer Love(2:49)
37. Hounds Summertown 1968 SWEDISH BEAT (2:29)
38. Yamano Bikkuri Band - Indian Summer (3:04)
39. Zetat - Summer Breeze (4:08)
40. Phil Ochs - In the Heat of the Summer (3:06)
I don't care what anyone says. Lee Hazelwood cannot sing.
10:00
42. Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazelwood - Summer Wine (3:43)
43. The Yardbirds - White Summer (3:53)
44. Astrud Gilberto - Once Upon A Summertime (3:03)
45. Frank Sinatra - The Things We Did Last Summer (3:17)
46. Teddy Stauffer - Summer Serenade-Badinage (2:28)
47. Walter Wanderly - Summer Samba (3:07)
48. Jürgen Friedrich with Kenny Wheeler - Summerflood (12:37)
49. West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - As Kind As Summer (1:11)
50. Modern Jazz Quartet - Summertime (7:47)
51. Billie Holiday - Sun Showers (3:06)
52. Doris Day - JazzFactory-I Got The Sun In The Morning (2:34)
53. Glenn Miller - It Happened In Sun Valley (2:58)
54. Nina Simone - Here Comes the Sun [François K. Remix, Version Chantée] (8:58)
55. Stan Getz - East Of The Sun (And West Of The Moon) (4:59)
56. Stan Kenton - I Got The Sun In The Morning (2:57)
57. Benny Carter - The Midnight Sun Will Never Set (4:02)
OK, I hadn't planned much past here, so we'll let random take over.
11:00
59. The Golden Gate Quartet - Moses Smote The Waters (2:32)
60. Annette Hanshaw - Annette Hanshaw - We Just Couldnt Say Goodbye (1:36)
61. Peggy Lee & The Four Of A Kind - Swing Low, Sweet Chariot (2:12)
62. The Four Aces - Love Is A Many Splendored Thing (3:01)
63. The best of Art Blakey - Night in Tunisia (6:55)
64. Vaughn Monroe/Vocal: Vaughn Monroe and The Moon Men - (Ghost) Riders In The Sky (A Cowboy Legend) (3:01)
65. Dizzy Gillespie - Birk's Works (3:05)
66. Hal Kemp/Vocal: Bob Allen - Don't Worry 'Bout Me (3:20)
67. Benny Goodman - The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise (5:21)
68. Erroll Garner - Impressions (3:15)
69. The Dutch Swing College Band - High Society (3:24)
70. Ben Webster - Ben Webster Meets Oscar Peterson - The Touch of Your Lips (6:19)
71. Ken Nordine - Down The Drain (3:15)
72. Miles Davis - Kind Of Blue - Freddie Freeloader (9:48)
73. Ken Nordine - Mr. Big (1:58)
74. Orb - Terminus (Excerpt) (3:25)