I Hear That Song And I'm 8 And Its Summmer

[Wee67]

The unofficial start of summer here in the U.S. and its nice and warm here in NYC. I heard an old Bill Withers song and it just took me back.

What songs sneak up on you and just take you back to that potent mix of childhood and summer that equals nothing but carefree!

I'm not talking about that Led Zeppelin or Eagles album you've been listening to since 1977. I mean something that has a real connection to your childhood summers BECAUSE it didn't come with you.

My mom always had Lite FM on the radio when I was a kid. I can clearly remember the feeling of the wind coming into our station wagon and this playing on the radio-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3hBY...eature=related

[Mikey]

In the Summertime.

I haven't heard if for quite a while and then they played it on the radio the other day ...

Made me start thinking about me and my buddy building our fort in the sweltering humid heat in the woods

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zc9wIzi96_E

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[HardyGirl]

Well, I hear this one and I'm 5. When I was little my family used to drive to upstate NY to this retreat place my dad's job own called Camp Henry/ Echo Hill. I had 2 pools, a really great wooded area, and my dad's boss had horses up there. I swear every time I smell chlorine from a pool and it's really warm, I long to hear AM rock on the radio and be at Echo Hill:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DsMQbedCZj0

[EmergencyIan]

Great songs and nice clips, all!!

This song always takes me back to riding in the back of a VW Super Beetle. It was on the radio as we (my parents) were going down the road:

10cc's "The Things We Do For Love"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SASnF0S6NpE

- Ian

[The Toyroom]

How Do You Do? by Mouth and MacNeal
Band on the Run by Wings
Beach Baby by First Class

And I think I'm younger than 8

[Zemo]

The unofficial start of summer here in the U.S. and its nice and warm here in NYC. I heard an old Bill Withers song and it just took me back.

What songs sneak up on you and just take you back to that potent mix of childhood and summer that equals nothing but carefree!

I'm not talking about that Led Zeppelin or Eagles album you've been listening to since 1977. I mean something that has a real connection to your childhood summers BECAUSE it didn't come with you.

My mom always had Lite FM on the radio when I was a kid. I can clearly remember the feeling of the wind coming into our station wagon and this playing on the radio-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g3hBY...eature=related

[madmarva]

There was a terrible song called something like "Bertha Butt Boogie" that came out in the early to mid 1970s. I remember hearing it on the radio traveling to Gatlinburg, Tenn. for a vacation and to visit relatives. I was warned not to sing the song around my great aunt and uncle but my brother goaded me into doing it anyway. As punishment, my parents took away my Davy Crockett cap they had bought me for the rest of the trip.

[Marvelmania]

Whenever I hear the song Monster Mash it takes me back to being a kid during the summertime. They played it constantly at the city swimming pool where I spent many a day at.

[toys2cool]

for me it was the late 80's early 90's, anything free style anything Stevie B

[Random Axe]

I don't think I can directly draw a parallel to Summertime, but taking me back, waaay back is Pac-Man Fever. I wore that album out. I can almost hear the Frogger song in my head too. Yeah, insane.

Scott

[bizzaro megomauler]

"Afternoon Delight"- my parents would always shut it off, and we never understood why...

[Blue Meanie]

There are a few for me...One is definitely Wings "With A Little Luck". Reminds me of going into Brooklyn every other weekend to see aunts and uncles. The 2 others I think that bring me back are Barry Manilow's "Can't Smile Without You" and Leo Sayer's "More Than I Can Say"...I laugh everytime I hear them because I remember my Dad singing this to my mother...in a Heavy Italian Accent

[Bizarro Amy]

Believe it or not, anything from "License to Ill" by the Beastie Boys. I was more like 9 or 10, but any of the singles reminds me of sitting in my friend's yard, listening to the call-in dedication hour and a) trying to get through and request a song for our crushes and b)hoping someone dedicated one to you.

[The Toyroom]

Whenever I hear the song Monster Mash it takes me back to being a kid during the summertime. They played it constantly at the city swimming pool where I spent many a day at.

Monster Mash, Playground in My Mind both take me back to when I opened my first SOLID BOX Removable Cowl Batman and Robin...They were playing on the radio in the car....

[Megospidey]

Anything by Karen Carpenter, Elvis, or the Platters. My mom played these records on the turntable and I remember them as if I were listening to them right now....