Lovin' Spoonful - Summer In The City (1966)

[@annscott1743]

When I hear this song, it brings me back to July 1966 where temple I'm NYC rose above 100° !!!It was a relief when temperatures dropped between 89-90 ° @ night!!!!

[@Teto_0-d12]

I’m a 2000 baby but love this song as much as my grandma

[@holliepetillo9567]

Cool cat, looking for a kitty...one of the best lines ever ❤

[@MommylovesGavie]

I probably didn’t hear this song till about 1993 when I was 8 and going through my mother’s cassettes but it still makes me feel nostalgic about an era I didn’t even live through. I played this over and over, it’s just so fun.

[@jaybrown1828]

Just wow!!! I was 17 in August 1966.We were driving around in a 1959 Impala convertible,top down and 95 degrees in the middle of a heat wave! This came on the tinny sounding AM radio and all of us in the car simply loved it.That was an era of simply magical music. Coming from every genre.The Beatles,The Rascals,The Byrds,Kinks,Beach Boys,so many more who can count! That doesn’t even begin to star talking about the Motown Sound.We had no idea how lucky we were to have the experience of listening to such groundbreaking music,it truly helped us cope with a world full of war,race riots,assassinations etc.We really need it now

[@andymatthews7617]

I wish aliens could take me back and leave me there forever.

[@charlesking5328]

Go five years and repeat the cycle again , beam me up 😊

[@andymatthews7617]

@@charlesking5328 absolutely.

[@Sue-In-Oregon]

I was 19 with a 4 month old baby

[@andymatthews7617]

@@Sue-In-Oregon happy but tiring days.

[@spongeCrab29]

Best intro music to the greatest action movie ever DIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE. Thank you John McClane and Father Mount Olympus Zues Haha

[@20royalsred]

I had this played by Chris Evans on radio 2 as a request read my name and everything 😎

[@AmisH-q4h]

Back when artists didn't sell their souls to make a song.

[@vduncan54]

Back when music was good..60s through early 80s..

[@andymatthews7617]

GREAT DAYS.

[@chipjones7609]

Just watching Dudes and there smiles cuz they know they made an awsome song

[@trudirosie4186]

Oh...Summer in the 60s! It takes me right back there

[@MrUsnavyvet]

The SIxties had the best groups and songs!

[@beckyleonardis6331]

When they played this song at the beginning of Die Hard with a Vengeance! They're showing New Yorkers getting ready to start their day. Then, there's an explosion and it's quiet in the background. Love that franchise!

[@Milleniumfalcon01]

This is my ringtone since 2006

[@ObregonRocio]

Maravilla!!!!!!!!!! Those were the days!!!!

[@roscianyt]

All around, people looking half-dead walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head.

[@vikingpg3d]

I love this song

[@pierrelecolleter6968]

trop de souvenirs j avais 15 ans et amoureux

[@kevinfarrell3121]

The #1 song the day I was born!

[@jillfrost]

Went to see them late 60's in Toronto's Ol Yorkville Village..(off Avenue Rd)..both were Born in '44..John in NYC,& Zai in Toronto..Now who's older than Sand ? :>)))

[@rosaisabella7829]

Discovered the faces behind this song on 13th of february 2020

[@user-vu5jx9hl8s]

1:20 my gosh, the things that have sampled that...

[@andymatthews7617]

AWESOME.

[@shea086]

This is a first class recording of a first class song from a first class band. For me it just never gets old. The music arrangement and chord structure and vocal delivery turn this into a great pop song. That's saying something as most popular music is forgettable. Just my opinion but I believe lots of people like this song. Also, I think 95% of the songs that were in the charts alongside this in 1966 are long long forgotten and rightly so.

[@wesleythompson447]

My grandpa was in Vietnam in 1966

[@ahmetsayn6412]

🤗👍👍👍👍👍 good oldies 👍

[@Theverifiedyoutuber]

Miami twice 🐐🐐

[@マック悠平]

nice drum!!

[@oneofmany1087]

IN THE SUMMER I N THE CITY

[@x-bomba0117]

GTA sa parodia Rychu 😍🥺♥️

[@christopherventurelli5203]

Who is the guy on the other keyboard? Some wild expressions...

[@riverjunior3965]

1:11 the guitarist on the left "so long for the playback folk" 😅

[@snogglemonkey]

This song is a masterpiece of songwriting. Captures the era brilliantly. I never forgot this song - it's right up there with all the greatest songs.

[@engineeringartist4801]

Definitely.💯

[@commanderthorkilj.amundsen3426]

So very much agree. Anyone coming of age then, feels it in their bones.

[@qtpysusie54]

John Sebastian. A friend far away. A treasure.my whole life (12 when this came out.

[@richtraube2241]

One of the many cool tunes I heard as a kid in summer day camp thanks to the bus drivers playing the radio.

[@jasonj3969]

I somehow found this in 2016 at 16 years old Good music doesn't get old 💯👌

[@chuckjones6914]

Keep going man, There's so much other great music out there my parents hooked me up with as a child, I am so very lucky... And I was 16 years old in about 2003.... All of this is way before my time but it's still the sound of my childhood....

[@yasharkhara8151]

a few years ago I discovered rock n roll for the first time in guardians of the galaxy vol.2 movie and from then my whole music taste changed. u got great taste of music man

[@patriots02ify]

Good for you. If you like this check out green onions by booker t and the mgs.

[@motomorini3428]

There's a treasure trove of music from that era like this and better. Funny thing...oldies all of a sudden becomes "cool" to my grandkids when one of today's groups gets their version on the radio. Then I explain to them that the REAL song was created before their parents were born. :)

[@R__K]

Here's my 60's playlist... it's amazing. kzbin.info/aero/PLBAq7uznvvt4OpEv2YRdpiERI0lqgBPRL

[@HerbertAtkinson]

60s & 70s music will never be the same it was greatest pleasure to grow up in them days.

[@barrydavid6634]

just like the music of the 80s and most of the 90s

[@MarkRoberts-bj2me]

John Sebastian wrote some of the very best songs of the Classic Rock era.

[@christofferlahrin5149]

Congratz on your 80th birthday, John Sebastian!!!🎉

[@terrykeller5011]

These guys performed at our high school as they were taking off. I was in the 8th grade. Good memories. My very first concert.

[@channelfogg6629]

I love this song as much as I did when I was first listening to it in 1966. How long ago that is. What a different world.

[@v.zoster7660]

How different was the world back then ? I wish I lived in that era

[@thescribbler495]

I was born in 1994. I'm sure it was almost too different to imagine.

[@penneybowman]

Me, too. I turned 10 summer of 66. Been into good music all my life and I'm 64 now

[@Px828]

I was 5 in 1966. I remember hearing this song in my aunt's Corvair. No AC. Yeah, summer in the city.

[@christianebonnaves5783]

Me also good 60’s i love

[@ronaldtownsend6296]

I play this quite often .... On September 25th I'll be 61 it's good to be alive thank you Jesus'

[@andymatthews7617]

On october 5th, I'll be 63, we had the best music EVER.

[@ronaldtownsend6296]

Yep...

[@GrowthruGod]

Amen

[@SallyGeewiz57]

That's my bday, too! Sept Libras unite!

[@fatima1009]

I turned 61 Wednesday, July 17!

[@sherryhoskins8771]

Every time I hear this, I don't care if it's summer or dead of winter, I can still feel the heat of that summer long ago.

[@fc7208]

me too...driving down the Parkway to the Jersey Shore!!!

[@ascfde]

Whenever I see a greasy hobo that back of my neck feelin dirt n gritty line pops in my head

[@erichepner796]

There is no greater time machine known to man than music

[@lordofthestings]

I could live perpetually in the 60's and 70's.

[@anthonybonino6928]

back when musical artists actually played instruments and had talent.

[@ミスターハンキー]

日本の高校生ですが良い物はどこにいても、どんな時代でも分かります🌴

[@evaehrsson2171]

This song is one of those songs that you remember from my teenage years. Love it and play it often, just have to hear it, so good! Thanks Lovin´Spoonful! 💜💜💜💜

[@teresaschoch344]

Perfect for these days.

[@snelgrave101]

Die hard with a vengeance brought a lot of people here, hey that's nothing to be ashamed of, awesome movie and an awesome tune 👍

[@shelleyshocked]

Yes same! I am going to watch it right now 😃

[@snelgrave101]

@@shelleyshocked if I had it on DVD i would watch it myself, im not one for this streaming malarkey.

[@lougrossi6896]

Cruising in my 66 impala SS396 listening to this song. Times were so much better then

[@johanna5688]

This song is the greatest. It takes me down memory lane. I especially so love the bit at the end, just when the music pauses, and we hear the jackhammer & then the electric piano playing. Just magic. I love it still today.

[@andymatthews7617]

❤❤

[@michaelleroy9281]

Yes 1966 Summer in Downtown Chicago listening to this on WLS 890 this doesn't get old even in 2024

[@carlamoore3474]

I love the old videos showing the bands actually playing the instruments and really singing the song! Nothing faked. Ok maybe the car horn was a recording. The era of true artists is gone.

[@SteveRANKIN-f3q]

You might like those old videos but this isn't one of them. .Notice there is no cord coming from the guitar. There are no visible cords, microphones, or amplifiers. At 1:13 Sebastian looks around as if to say, "How do I fake this part?"

[@Walter6078]

These shows the artists lip synced to the record.

[@terryfriend16]

I love how he smiles to his band.

[@kpax45]

Looks like they are having a good time

[@MrUsnavyvet]

No strobe lights, no flashing lights, no laser show, no smoke - just good music!

[@motomorini3428]

There are two songs which actually sound like heat to me. This one, and "The Boys of Summer." It boggles my mind how much talent it takes to pull that off. Does anyone else feel like a tall glass of iced tea right now?

[@nickorlando8261]

There are no artists today that can sing/wright lyrics like this anymore.

[@kirnpu]

Ahhhh yes - packing up the family in LA to drive to the beach for the entire day and we kids got to listen to our rock in the car. Thanks mom and dad - awesome memories!

[@monumentstosuffering2995]

As perfect as Baker Street.

[@jacksnyder7318]

1966 I'm 10yrs old and it's July and hot outside, this is on the radio in Mom's car (no air conditioner) 'windows down' in the Ford custom, two door, sedan, as we drive through the westside of Cleveland going to Sears & Roebuck at 110th and Lorain rd. I'm looking at the rooftops of the building's wishing I was up there, thinking it's got to be cooler up there. Just a moment frozen in memory, it's all gone now, the Sears, Mom & Dad and the inspiration of hope from great music and a once great country, hungry with ambition, talent and a future.

[@cleaningtim]

We had some hot summers then, but we were not used to always being in the AC, and we dealt with heat much easier then, unlike today. I was born in 1962 and never had AC in a house until 1981. We rode in our cars with no AC and the windows down to get that Hot breeze.

[@elaine462]

I had an album of theirs and every song on it was magical! Love them!

[@shaykatz5648]

My 1st 8 track tape was by them! Love all the songs but this was a favorite.

[@gregscavuzzo5457]

I am 68 and I remember when disc jockeys programed their own music, it was great , we would listen to AM Radio all day and night, Top 40 WHB Kansas City Missouri, life was great in the 1960s other than Vietnam and The Race Riots

[@pakind6869]

Such a brilliant song that even though it came out before I was born, I remember it from my childhood in the 70s.

[@Michael-g3y]

Sounds more modern doesn't it .. 1966??? 😂😮

[@shandajames5444]

I wasn't born until 1967 but I love this REAL music!!!!❤️

[@bigte9171]

I’m 11 but this song is so good I love the tunes and the vibes

[@vikingpg3d]

Agree

[@desertbill01]

Keep checking out music from this era. You're sure to find more that you like.

[@robinwanless3496]

I Love this Song!!! AND John Looks so damn Happy to be there, I Love it!!!

[@carmelaseverino681]

He is drop dead gorgeous ❤

[@melaniemarshall874]

Excellent musical composition too. Brilliant song and singer!

[@JasonJason210]

They look like they're having great fun doing this!

[@Realmod_yt]

My fav part of the song is But at night it’s a different world go out and find a girl

[@vikkidawson4497]

Such a shame that great music like this is dying! If you like this definitely check out 'This Summer' by Syd Sister. We need to find a way to bring good music back!!

[@barny325]

Just because music has become that bad we realize how good the 60's actually were, don't we?

[@crisrojas8613]

👏🏼

[@alexazam41198]

This Summer is so unsixtys xD

[@shea086]

@Vikki Dawson Don't worry Vikki. I've great belief in musicians young and old. There has always been great music and there always will be great music. We've always had to put up with mediocre and bad music but we don't have to buy it or listen to it. Some people have sensitive ears. If I hear bad music I usually just switch it off at the source. I'll have a listen to your suggestion.. Syd Sister.

[@sexobscura]

You must understand that culturally music is no longer the centre of people's lives as it once was. Nostalgia will never bring it back just as it'll never bring back your youth. Just accept that kids today don't regard it as crucial as you do

[@danielcomer2902]

Nowadays it's all pop music, don't we all wish we had music like this still.

[@gunnersteve13]

About 1 year before I was born. The best music ever was released from the 50s to the late 70s. Though I also liked the 80s and 90s.

[@ThatChrissyGirl]

Had an obsession with this song as a kid in the 90s, ahh the memories 🥰

[@jasonsenator6144]

I had my mom play this on the phone as I was in the hospital in Chicago. I just watched the city and was good for discharge the next day! Power of music!!!

[@thorsteng1166]

masterpiece 😍🙂. I love it 😁

[@Jerdobrosky1188]

I’m from the year 2139 and confirm this is still a great song even at age 157 still makes me groove.

[@stevemarleau6709]

😂

[@yvonnelewis4888]

Please tell me things are better then!!! That rock music has a revival and its all anyone listens to…

[@carmelaseverino681]

Happiest birthday John sabastian x❤

[@jimroberts9327]

Currently sitting in a hot city.

[@lutzgetsmoney]

This is my favorite video on KZbin ✌🏼🤘🏼

[@tomennis7414]

The Virus may kill me,But will never kill this Tune...Rock on Everyone 👍

[@nosenada4121]

Vaccines 💉 kill more 😂

[@JackKosherDog]

Safety check!

[@scottpitner4298]

🎶Hot town summer in the city. I’m a handsy man, honkin bookoo titties.🎶🤦🏻

[@johnennis4586]

Yo. We related?

[@BladeRunner25463c]

No, the Vax might tho! Turns your blood to mud

[@nathanb.3218]

One of the best songs of this late '60s and well into the the newer age it's a classic that's bound to be a favorite of mine for all times

[@topologyrob]

Brilliant songwriter Mr Sebastian and such a relaxed open-hearted, generous presence

[@dorothyfry3319]

I was 12 when this came out. I love this !

[@SunUp-l3h]

Man, I was young when this came out and I still remember every single word!🥰💯

[@namcat53]

This was a HUGE hit in '66 and rightly so. "Rock" music was evolving very rapidly with new sounds, recording techniques, lyrics and melodies every week; these guys were pioneers in many ways. We liked how they looked and sounded as much as The Byrds, Beatles, Rolling Stones, Mamas and Papas, etc.

[@johnnymnemonic8487]

I was born in the 80s and this has got to be my favorite song from the 60s.

[@YouTubeChannel-qk9rk]

I was just a 4 yr old boy, and still rings in my ears, from those jukeboxes playing in my home vicinity, a couple of times a day besides those on the cable radio, back then. Brings back much of my boyhood memories !

[@Philmoscowitz]

Man, I love this song!

[@abgomez5755]

I found this song after like 10 years, my parent would always listen to it and they even forgot the name. So happy I found it

[@MichalSvoboda-q1u]

I am 76 now and I love this song as well- since 1966 year

[@andymatthews7617]

I'm 64, me to.

[@brotherlonewolf4182]

@@andymatthews7617 Same here.

[@andymatthews7617]

@@brotherlonewolf4182 👍

[@erichepner796]

I was born the year of your age.

[@justmadeit2]

Ray Manzarek!

[@NEANOR1]

Listening to this song in 2022. Yes.

[@tamtamj8787]

I like their hair and cloths!

[@YakHongYung]

DieHard bring me here

[@v1rotate391]

Die Hard with a Vengeance.

[@guinness77100]

Great song. Can't believe it was 66. Feels like a hundred years ago.

[@chimpooey9083]

Then Anton Chigurh was drafted for the Vietnam war. There, he saw some things. Things that change a man. Terrible things.

[@stacyblue1980]

Childhood memories. ❤ My childhood sweetheart and I ... man we loved this song. Marshall , I miss you. I send my prayers and heart and hope for your healing. 🙏🌹👐

[@heroknaderi]

Brings me back Memories Love this tune.

[@kevinchamberlain5978]

This was the first single I ever bought...back in 1967. By the 90s I had a massive vinyl collection.

[@QBAN2010]

Same for me, first 45

[@mauricehawkins2968]

I was nine when this amazing song was on the radio. Instantly recognisable! I'm probably wrong but could this be the only song that features pneumatic drills?

[@RyanMcKennaGosling]

Happy Summer Solstice! This band is SO underrated and doesn't get talked enough today. I remember this song very well and I know it was featured in a car commercial that I saw on TV years ago.

[@solofly5793]

In the late 70s this song was a public service announcement tv commercial for sending kids to summer camp, I think it went: “Hot town summer in the city see all the kids looking hot and gritty New York isn’t it a pity they can’t find a shadow in the city, walk around see them looking so sad playing on the sidewalk hotter than a match yeah- lol , or something like that, I remember thinking man I’d like to hear the real song!

[@robindehlinger4698]

Love this song. Memories…..

[@andymatthews7617]

Best days,EVER.

[@writteninstars]

found this song from a 60s music informercial almost a decade ago. love it!

[@ramonsalas7964]

Los jóvenes de antes tenían talento y tocaban muy bien.