[clashfan]

Summer in the City
by Lovin’ Spoonful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zs8ZNa73OS4&list=RDzs8ZNa73OS4&start_radio=1

Hot town, summer in the city
Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty
Been down, isn’t it a pity
Doesn’t seem to be a shadow in the city

All around, people looking half dead
Walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head
(et cetera)

[bankwalker]

but at night it’s a different world ...

[Steely Tom]

That was a great song.

Lovin' Spoonful came to an unhappy end, in California.

1966 was unusually hot in NYC, where it went to 103°F on July 3rd.

Summer In The City was released the next day, July 4th, 1966. The song had been recorded in March, 1966.