Greetings from Laurel Canyon!
Kiss me hard before you go / Summertime sadness / I just wanted you to know / That, baby, you the best
I got my red dress on tonight / Dancin’ in the dark, in the pale moonlight / Done my hair up real big, beauty queen style / High heels off, I’m feelin’ alive
Oh my God, I feel it in the air / Telephone wires above are sizzlin’ like a snare / Honey, I’m on fire, I feel it everywhere / Nothin’ scares me anymore (one, two, three, four)
As a New Yorker, I first came to California for college. I showed up with a green duffle bag and a banged-up surfboard I bought in East Hampton. I grew up spending my summers on the beaches of eastern Long Island and returned there for summer break my first few years of college. At the end of my senior year, I stayed in LA. That was 40 years ago. My first California summer was “endless.”
Like a midsummer’s night dream, I guess? All said, there’s no doubt that we change our listening habits with the change of the seasons. There are songs about summertime and summertime hits. On the eve of the solstice, I felt like listening to artists and songs that reek of summer.
Here are a few.
Top down, let’s cruise!
Idelic Single of the Week: Goon – Begin Here
