If your summer had a theme song, what would it be? Mine would be "A Horse with No Name" . And you????

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[Dave Bowman]

1. Singing in the rain.

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2. Thank you, very much Dave Bowman. Great song and dancing.

[Raven123]

3. Bicycle Race by Queen

It gets in my head as the weather turns nice!

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19. HAHAHAHAHA. Thank you very much for sharing with us. Raven123.

[Skittles]

4. Hot Fun in the Summertime

[underpants]

6. That and Mungo Jerry.

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[Skittles]

7. LOVE IT

omg takes me back

[debm55]

20. OH, I liked that song.Thank you, Skittles.

[Enter stage left]

5. "On the Road Again" by the great Willie Nelson...

We're full time RV'ers, 12 years in August.

[DEbluedude]

8. Summer Wind

Ole Blue Eyes.

[anciano]

9. "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer" recorded by Nat King Cole

[underpants]

10. R. E. M. "White Tornado" never made it on an album. One of the first songs they recorded.

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[Coventina]

24. Fun trivia: It did appear on the soundtrack of the Tom Hanks movie "Bachelor Party"!

Ah, it wasn't a good movie, but it sure brings back my salad days!!

[underpants]

25. They filmed that here in Richmond at the Jefferson Hotel

Eh, Tom shanks movies were just fun back then.

[Dave in VA]

11. crimson and clover

Can't remember whether I enjoyed it better stoned or tripping. Everytime I hear this song memories come flooding back.

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[Aristus]

12. "Summer In The City" by The Lovin' Spoonful.

For me, summer is hot, sweaty, unpleasant, and way too long. It's not like when I was a kid, and got three months off to do whatever I wanted. It's a slog.

I can't wait for winter. The kind of days I used to hate when my family moved to the Northwest, cold, gray, rainy, I love now. Can't wait for the those days again.

[some_of_us_are_sane]

13. That's easy.........."FORGET YOUR TROUBLES C'MON GET HAPPY"

[PufPuf23]

14. Summers 1973

This song was a soundtrack for the time, one of many. I was 20 and headed off to Berkeley for Cal in January 1974. Lived in a camp trailer on a 54 acres parcel on a Wild and Scenic River that was a CCC camp in the 1930s. We both worked for the US Forest Service. Had a 1956 Willy's jeep. Lived with my first serious love. We went to Berkeley and San Francisco to look for a place to live and saw the Dead at Winterland.

[darkstar]

22. Yeah, the good ole Grateful Dead have tons of songs that elicit summer vibes for me

And that one does for me for sure.

Another one for me is Jack Straw. Aside from the explicit 4th of July reference to the heat and the clouds, the way it begins in such a gentle way just reminds me of sunshine and shadows loping across the American plains. Or something….

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[Niagara]

15. In the Summertime by Mungo Jerry

[Niagara]

16. Margaritaville by Jimmy Buffet

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[WmChris]

17. Doors

5 to 1 Backside of the Waiting for the sun album. I was in Germany in the 60's and a guy told me the Doors weren't radical enough. I think this tune gets the point across.

[jgo]

18. (Sittin' on) The Dock of the Bay, by Otis Redding

for a mellow song,
and Celebration, by Kool & The Gang, for an upbeat song.

[True Dough]

21. I guess it would have to be this one, deb:

[Niagara]

27. Heyyyyy

Pretend there's the gif of a woman spitting out her coffee due to laughing in this response.

Thanks a gazillion, True!

[True Dough]

32. Hi neighbor!

I'm glad we're together again. Now, wipe that coffee off your chin!

[Niagara]

36. Hi neighbor

It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood!

I remember Mr. Rodgers teaching me how to make peanut butter.


I didn't know that he testified before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications to keep his program from being defunded up until a few years ago. In fact, I most likely learned that fact on DU.

[True Dough]

41. You mean Mr. Rogers just stopped by your house one day

and said, "Hey Niagara, bust out the peanuts because we're going to make peanut butter!"

Like that?

[Niagara]

46. I was extremely young and watching

a Mr. Rogers episode, True Dough. If I remember correctly he took his audience on a field trip to a peanut butter manufacturing plant.

At least I think it Mr. Rogers who did that for us youngins! Every once in awhile he would take us on a televised "field trip".

I wished that he would have showed up at my house! lol


P.S. I'm getting much worse on my typos so please bear with me.

[True Dough]

47. I'm not a typo judgement type

I make a fair share of my own.

Imagine what Mr. Rogers would think of me if I went around chastising others for their typing mistakes! I'd be disowned!

[Niagara]

60. I know that you don't but others here do and will

I'm more tired than normal and I'm still not sleeping well. I haven't had time or energy to check out new mattresses at the mattress stores, so maybe I can get to it for the July 4th weekend.

I also had a change with work clients and work schedule on top of not being able to sleep. And any work schedule change messes with my sleep schedule as well.

I'm just asking for people to bear with me, I didn't particular mean you, True. lol

[Coventina]

23. Bananarama's "Cruel Summer" because that's what summers are here in Phoenix

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[whathehell]

26. I absolutely love "A Horse with No Name", but

for a specifically summer theme, I'd have to tie it with " Sumnmer in the City" by the Lovin' Spoonful.

[Eddie18]

30. Song is about heroin

[whathehell]

31. Link?

[Niagara]

39. The song "Summer in the City" is in fact about summer

I have 3 backups for you. You're good, whathehell.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_in_the_City_(song)



https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-lovin-spoonful/summer-in-the-city



https://nysmusic.com/2025/06/13/new-york-series-the-lovin-spoonful-summer-in-the-city/

[whathehell]

42. Yes indeed

Thanks for the links, Niagara. You're good too.

[Niagara]

45. You're welcome, whathehell

And thank you!

[Phoenix61]

28. Summer Breeze

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54. Thank you very much. I had just graduated from High School, when this song came out. Always brings back memories of my

First love.

[Niagara]

29. Slow Ride by Foghat

[debm55]

35. Thank you very much, Niagara. I really liked that song.

[Niagara]

37. You're welcome, Deb. I do too!

[Chipper Chat]

33. The Long and Winding Road

To November

[debm55]

34. HAHahahhah. Thank you very much, Chipper Chat.

[surrealAmerican]

38. Saturday in the Park

Chicago

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51. Wonderful, surrealAmerican. I enjoyed that Chicago song so much.

[Ziggysmom]

40. Love is not a victory march, it's a cold and it's a broken Halelujiah.

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[debm55]

49. Wonderful, Thank you very much for sharing with us. Ziggysmom.

[johnp3907]

44. That Summer Feeling

Years ago I had this album on a cassette that I kept in my car so I could listen on warm summery days. Once I came out of work on the first nice day of the year to find that the sun had melted the cassette! 🤣
Seemed appropriate!

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[debm55]

48. Oh so sorry, johnp3907. Did you get another one? thank you for sharing.

[johnp3907]

50. I couldn't find it until we got to the digital age.

[Coldwater]

52. Hot Fun in the Summertime by Sly and the Family Stone

[debm55]

57. Thank you very much, Coldwater. Loved dancing and singing the song with the radio.

[FalloutShelter]

53. Jersey Girl here.

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[OC375]

55. Fruitcakes - Jimmy Buffet

I think it's pretty self-explanatory...

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[multigraincracker]

56. Love that song. Only two two finger cords.

[MiHale]

58. Hallelujah...

Sunshine… Hallelujah
Warmth… Hallelujah
Seeds sprout… Hallelujah
Relax outside in comfortable chairs and cloud watch …. Hallelujah
Take a nap in the middle of the deserted lake in the kayak… Hallelujah
Sun ripened and still warm from the field strawberries… Hallelujah
The smell of fresh cut hay or grass depending where you live… Hallelujah
Salad made from your garden… Hallelujah
Barefoot walks on fresh dewed grass in the morning… Hallelujah

[debm55]

59. Great post, MiHale. Thank you for sharing with us. Hallelujah

[LeftishBrit]

61. Right at the moment in England: 'Too Hot' by Kool and the Gang