Songs for your summer

All this beautifully unseasonable weather in Chicago has inspired me to come up with a “preview” summer music song list.  There are so many tunes that personally invoke memorable summers past, but my criteria for this list are:

• Songs whose music fits a laid-back summertime vibe as much as the lyrics do (which disqualifies rockin’ tunes like “Summer in the City”)
• Songs I like  🙂

My choices for “music to sit on the porch with a cool drink and hope it doesn’t decide to snow next week” are (click links):

• “A Summer Song” (Chad & Jeremy)
• “Girl” (Beck)
• “Here Comes the Sun” (Beatles)
• “Hot Fun in the Summertime”  (Sly & the Family Stone)
• “In the Summertime” (Mungo Jerry)
• “Suddenly Last Summer” (Motels)
• “Summer” (War)
• “Summer Breeze” (Seals and Crofts)
• “Summer Wind” (Frank Sinatra)
• “Sunny Afternoon” (Kinks)

What are your favorite mellow summer songs?

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