Summer Songs - Part 2
1963
Episode date - August 21, 2013
Good summer music manages to combine goofy fun with contemporary fashion. It sort of rolls up the cheesiest bits of modern-day pop culture and shoots it at you like a spitball.
Sometimes it’s good plain fun, and other times it’s just plain stupid. This show bounces from the sublime to the ridiculous, then back again, but almost every song here bares the obvious stamp of summer music, even if it was a summer from 50 years ago.
Featured tracks include;
1) If You Need Me – Solomon Burke
2) Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport – Rolf Harris
3) One Fine Day- The Chiffons
4) Pride and Joy – Marvin Gaye
5) On Top of Spaghetti – Tom Glazer
6) The Good Life- Tony Bennett
7) Heat Wave – Martha Reeves & the Vandellas
8) Then He Kissed Me – The Crystals
9) Surfer Girl – The Beach Boys
10) The Monkey Time – Major Lance
11) Martian Hop – The Ran-Dells
12) Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah – Alan Sherman
13) Wipe Out – The Surfari's