It is summer, but are you in the city?

Oldies Station ^ | 1966 | J Sebastian, M Sebastian, S Boone

[AdmSmith]

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

[AdmSmith]

Long time ago, but it is still valid

[AdmSmith]

ping

[gibsonguy]

Loving spoonful if memory serves

[AdmSmith]

True, click above and they are in color ;-)

[moovova]

And the living ain’t easy.

[AdmSmith]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rts7Qdew3HE

[NobleFree]

Good tune.

[dp0622]

Yeah that’s a cool song :-) unless you’re me and are spending three or four days a week in Brooklyn. Then it’s more like riots in the city :-)

[RoosterRedux]

When I lived in NYC, I loved summers in the City. A cool ocean breeze in the mornings and long runs in the Park.

Crowds all gone to the country.

[immadashell]

...Cool town, evening in the city
Dressing so fine and looking so pretty
Cool cat, looking for a kitty
Gonna look in every corner of the city

[mowowie]

Old Chicago songs remind me of hanging out in the city of Boston with my mom and her friends circa 72 or so...

I was around 4 or 5 but still remember those days hanging out at Jamaica pond.

Saturday in the park i think it was the 4th of July...

[mowowie]

There was always a radio playing..

[Joe Boucher]

my first concert ever was at the Hollywood Bowl,Friday, July 28, 1967. Loving Spoonful was the headliner. Simon and Garfunkel was the warm up.
Hot Town was the number one hit at the time
Damn, I’m getting OLD.

[bobby.223]

We used to sing it as “And your mother id easy”. Screw the city! I’m still up here in the mountains hangin’ with my Deer and Bear pals!

[bobby.223]

id=is.

[moovova]

Classic!

[Songcraft]

Speaking of cities...

"Chicago (That Toddlin' Town)"
(Terminal Town?)

[Fiji Hill]

"But at night, it's a different world.
Go out and find a girl,
Come-on, come-on and dance all night,
Despite the heat, it'll be all right."

Sorry, no dancing in 2020. Got to stay home and "social distance."

[Fiji Hill]

Here's one that's more appropriate for 2020. It came out 52 years ago, but it almost sounds like a BLM/Antifa anthem.

Revelation: Revolution '69--The Lovin' Spoonful (1968)

And no one dares to ask them what they do after dark
And the prize they give to men who kill is a statue in the park
Don't let them cut your wings, dear ones, before you learn to fly
Too soon the game will seem too real and then no one will ask why
I'm scared to start but can't stop my heart, now I want the Revolution

It's what they do not what they say that screams out "it's a lie"
Better keep your tongue locked in your head before you march to die
Let's hang together then, good friends, or you know we'll hang alone
And the hawks that fly will tear your eyes and rip the skin clean off your bones
I'm afraid to die but I'm a man inside, and I need the Revolution

And I'm crying watching brothers of mine doing time for making those waves
About evil men who've been sittin' on them laughin' lovin' the system they've saved
All those heavy-handed hit-down-hard arms have pushed me to this fight
And I'm tired of seeing our name done wrong when it's us who gives 'em the right
And if looks can tell sure as hell we're gonna have our Revolution

[SunkenCiv]

I was listening to the big AOR station while on a drive a while ago this afternoon, and they were airing Little Steven's Underground Garage. Caught the tail end of the Four Tops version of "Wake Me, Shake Me" (I'd only known the Blues Project version prior to this), and then this, which sounds like '60s garage psychedelia, but it's new:

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