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    What is your favorite song about summer?
    [ 2009-06-23 11:00 ]

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    Hundreds of songs have been written about having fun in the summertime.

    VOICE ONE:

    Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember with Shirley Griffith. This week on our program, we play some of our favorite songs about summer.

    (MUSIC)

    What is your favorite song about summer?

    VOICE ONE:

    If you ask most Americans, they would say their favorite season of the year is summer. The weather is warm. They do not have to wear heavy clothes to keep warm. Young people do not have to go to school. They can do many activities outside, like playing sports and swimming at the beach or the pool. They like the sunshine during the day and the warm summer nights. People have written and recorded hundreds of songs about summer. These are some of our favorites.

    VOICE TWO:

    One of the most famous songs about summer is from George Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess." He wrote the music in 1935. The opera takes place in the southern United States. It opens with these words: "Summertime and the livin' is easy. Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high." Leontyne Price sings the song.

    (LEONTYNE PRICE - "SUMMERTIME")

    VOICE TWO:

    Here is Billy Stewart's version of the same song.

    (BILLY STEWART - "SUMMERTIME")

    What is your favorite song about summer?

    VOICE ONE:

    The 1950s and 60s produced many songs about teenagers enjoying their summer vacation from school. The songs are about having fun, swimming in the ocean, driving in cars. This one is "Summertime, Summertime" by the Jamies.

    (THE JAMIES - "SUMMERTIME, SUMMERTIME")

    VOICE TWO:

    The Beach Boys It is summer almost all year long in California. And it was summer all the time for the Beach Boys. They sang about their favorite activities, like riding the ocean waves on surfboards. Here is one Beach Boys song, "All Summer Long."

    (THE BEACH BOYS - "ALL SUMMER LONG")

    VOICE ONE:

    However, for some teenagers, summer vacation was not all fun and games. Some of them had to work to earn money. Eddie Cochran sang about this in "Summertime Blues." Many other bands and artists later recorded this song, including the British rock band, the Who.

    (THE WHO - "SUMMERTIME BLUES")

    VOICE TWO:

    The Lovin' Spoonful was a band that did not love summers in the city because of the heat. They sang: "Hot town, summer in the city. Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty." And: "All around, people looking half-dead, walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head." They liked the nighttime better when they could dance and have more fun. "Summer in the City" was released in the summer of 1966 and was one of the Lovin' Spoonful's greatest hits.

    (LOVIN' SPOONFUL - "SUMMER IN THE CITY")

    What is your favorite song about summer?

    VOICE ONE:

    Even though it was hot, Sly and the Family Stone still found ways to have fun in the summertime. This song is about the happiness that the season promises, including going to a "county fair in the country sun."

    (SLY AND THE FAMILY STONE - "HOT FUN IN THE SUMMERTIME")

    VOICE TWO:

    In the 1990s, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince produced this hip-hop song called "Summertime." It is about being with friends and having a good time.

    (DJ JAZZY JEFF AND THE FRESH PRINCE - "SUMMERTIME")

    VOICE ONE:

    We leave you with a song from the movie version of the musical "Grease." It is about two teenagers who meet during their summer vacation and fall in love. Back at school in the autumn, they tell their friends all about it. John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John sing "Summer Nights."

    (JOHN TRAVOLTA AND OLIVIA NEWTON-JOHN - "SUMMER NIGHTS")

    VOICE ONE:

    Our program was written by Shelley Gollust and produced by Caty Weaver. I'm Steve Ember with Shirley Griffith. Transcripts and MP3s of our programs can be found at voaspecialenglish.com. Join us again next week for THIS IS AMERICA in VOA Special English.

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