Summer in the City

"Summer in the City"
Single by The Lovin' Spoonful
from the album Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful
B-side "Butchie's Tune"
Released July 4, 1966
Format 7" 45rpm
Genre Pop rock, psychedelic pop
Length 2:41
Label Kama Sutra
Songwriter(s) John Sebastian, Mark Sebastian, Steve Boone[1][2]
Producer(s) Erik Jacobsen
The Lovin' Spoonful singles chronology
"Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?"
(1966)		 "Summer in the City"
(1966)		 "Rain on the Roof"
(1966)

"Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?"
(1966)		 "Summer in the City"
(1966)		 "Rain on the Roof"
(1966)

"Summer in the City" is a song recorded by The Lovin' Spoonful and written by John Sebastian, Mark Sebastian, and Steve Boone.

It appeared on their album Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful and reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100, in August 1966, for three consecutive weeks.[3] The song features a series of car horns during the instrumental bridge, starting with a Volkswagen Beetle horn, and ends with a jackhammer sound in order to give the impression of the sounds of summer in the city. The song became a gold record. It is ranked number 401 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.[4]

Chart performance

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ "Summer In The City". AllMusic. Retrieved 2012-08-30.
  2. ↑ "Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful". Allmusic. Retrieved 2012-08-30.
  3. ↑ "Hot 100". Billboard. Nielsen. 78 (33): 22. 1966-08-13. Retrieved 2009-09-03.
  4. ↑ "The RS 500 Greatest Songs of All Time". Rolling Stone (Wenner Media). 2011-04-07. Archived from the original on 2011-05-27. Retrieved 2018-07-24.
  5. ↑ Go-Set's National Top 40, 12 October 1966
  6. ↑ "Item Display - RPM - Library and Archives Canada". Collectionscanada.gc.ca. 1966-08-22. Retrieved 2018-03-07.
  7. ↑ "flavour of new zealand - search listener". Flavourofnz.co.nz. Retrieved 2016-09-29.
  8. ↑ Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles 1955-1990 - ISBN 0-89820-089-X
  9. ↑ "Top 100 Hits of 1966/Top 100 Songs of 1966". Musicoutfitters.com. Retrieved 2016-09-29.

Bibliography

  • The Billboard Book of Number One Hits, ISBN 978-0823076772
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