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

Beach Boys

Good Vibrations (promo film)

I Get Around (”Ready Steady Go!” UK TV performance, 1965)

Have a Swinging Beach Party!

Frankie & Annette - Beach Party!

Jan and Dean - Surf City (on Steve Allen)

Fat Boys w/ the Beach Boys - Wipeout

The B-52s - Rock Lobster

Dick Dale & the Deltones - Miserlou

The Drifters - Under the Boardwalk

David Lee Roth - California Girls

The Ramones - Rockaway Beach (live at CBGB’s)

Martha & the Muffins - Echo Beach

Stan Getz & Astrud Gilberto - Girl from Ipanema

Freddy “Boom Boom” Cannon - Palisades Park (written by Chuck Barris)

Chad & Jeremy - Summer Song

Blondie - Tide is High

Percy Faith - A Summer Place

Ain’t No Cure for Those Summertime Blues

Ella Fitzgerald - Summertime (Berlin, 1968)

Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues

The Who perform “Summertime Blues” at Woodstock

Summer of Love (or close in spirit at least)

Scott MacKenzie - San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)

Donovan - Sunshine Superman

Sly and the Family Stone - Hot Fun in the Summertime

Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime

Motown

Martha & the Vandella - Dancing in the Streets on Ed Sullivan

The Jam cover Martha & the Vandellas’ “Heat Wave” on “American Bandstand”

Super 70s

Summer Nights from Grease performed by Lego people

Seals & Crofts - Summer Breeze

Chicago - Saturday in the Park

War - Low Rider

MTV Classics

The Go-Go’s - Vacation

Bananarama - Cruel Summer

Don Henley - Boys of Summer

The Motels – Suddenly Last Summer

The Alarm - Rain in the Summertime

Hip-Hop

DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince - Summertime

Nelly - Hot in Herre

Jenny Owen Youngs covering Hot in Herre

Misc 90s to present

Len – Steal My Sunshine

Pavement - Summer Babe

Queen of the Stone Age - Feel Good Hit of the Summer

Wet Hot American Summer
Parody of 80s summer camp films. Montage sequence set to Rick Springfield’s “Love is Alright Tonight”.

50 Years of Summer Songs
http://www.wnyc.org/music/articles/80409