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jmjiloveyou - A Summer Song

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Aug 30, 2024 09:38am

<h1>A Summer Song</h1>From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/2e/A_Summer_Song_Dutch_sleeve.jpg" alt="undefined">"A Summer Song" is a 1964 song by the English pop music duo <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_%26_Jeremy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chad & Jeremy</a>. The song was written by duo partner <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chad_Stuart" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Chad Stuart</a> with Clive Metcalfe and Keith Noble.<h2>Background</h2>Like the duo's breakthrough selection, "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday%27s_Gone_(song)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Yesterday's Gone</a>", "A Summer Song" is a reminiscence of a summer romance. However, "A Summer Song" eschews the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beat_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Merseybeat</a> sound of "Yesterday's Gone" in favour of a gentler <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_music" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">folk</a>-influenced arrangement, with the lyrics also being wistful in tone.On The Steel Pier Radio Show, Stuart recalled that his collaborators on "A Summer Song", Clive Metcalfe and Keith Noble, were a musical duo linked to Pink Floyd with whom he and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeremy_Clyde" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Jeremy Clyde</a> had become friendly, and that "A Summer Song" was written and composed in Stuart's flat in London: "We were sitting around jamming on four chords and we came up with 'A Summer Song'." Clive Metcalfe wrote the melody late one night and Keith later added lyrics. Metcalfe said: "We performed it one night at Tina's (a Bistro in Piccadilly London) when Chad was visiting. Chad liked the song and later re-wrote the middle, and we all reworked the lyrics, as you hear it today".<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Summer_Song#cite_note-4" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[4]</a> "We never thought 'Summer Song' could possibly be a single," Chad recalled another time. "It was just a pretty, romantic song. Or so we thought...you never can tell, can you?"<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Summer_Song#cite_note-5" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[5]</a>The selection was one of a number to be included on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yesterday%27s_Gone_(Chad_%26_Jeremy_album)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Yesterday's Gone</a> album recorded at CTS Studios <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayswater" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bayswater</a> in June 1964 under the production auspices of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shel_Talmy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Shel Talmy</a>, with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnnie_Spence" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Johnnie Spence</a> conducting the orchestra.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Summer_Song#cite_note-6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[6]</a>"A Summer Song" was issued in both the UK and the U.S. in July 1964. The UK single version opens with Chad and Jeremy trading vocals while the U.S. single features unisonant singing throughout.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Summer_Song#cite_note-7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[7]</a><h2>Impact</h2>"A Summer Song" was played on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juke_Box_Jury" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Juke Box Jury</a> and guest-judge <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ringo_Starr" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ringo Starr</a> assessed the track as a "miss" (i.e., flop), with no U.S. hit potential.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Summer_Song#cite_note-Jordan-8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[8]</a> Indeed, in the UK, where Chad & Jeremy's "Yesterday's Gone" had been a mild hit, followed by the unsuccessful "Like I Love You Today", "A Summer Song" did not reach the charts; possibly because it was released on a very small label and was largely unobtainable in the shops. An article in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NME" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">New Musical Express</a> complained of that fact. However in, the United States, following the near-Top 20 success of "Yesterday's Gone", the track afforded the duo their career record, reaching #7 on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Billboard Hot 100</a> the week of 17–24 October 1964.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Summer_Song#cite_note-Hot100-9" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[9]</a> "A Summer Song" also went to #2 for six weeks on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adult_Contemporary_(chart)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Adult Contemporary</a> chart.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Summer_Song#cite_note-10" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[10]</a> It is considered one of the signature songs of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Invasion" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">British Invasion</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Summer_Song#cite_note-Jordan-8" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[8]</a> When Gary James asked him about it, Stuart suggested: "The American market was bigger. [...] You'd never hear something that sweet in the British charts. [...] For some reason in America it worked."<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Summer_Song#cite_note-11" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">[11]</a>"A Summer Song" also reached #7 in Canada and #49 in Australia. The selection is featured on the soundtracks of the films <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rushmore_(film)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rushmore</a> (1998), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Princess_Diaries_(film)" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Princess Diaries</a> (2001), and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Men_in_Black_3" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Men in Black 3</a> (2012), and was used in the "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ESPN" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">ESPN</a>'s Sports Heaven" commercial that aired during <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Bowl_XL" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Super Bowl XL</a>. It also appeared in a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_in_American_television" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">2019</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_commercial" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">TV commercial</a> for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coors_Light" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Coors Light</a>.