Suddenly, Last Summer - The Motels - w/lyrics

Sharing a name with-but in no way inspired by- Tennessee Williams’s 1958 Southern Gothic one-act play (and subsequent 1959 film adaptation, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Katharine Hepburn, and Montgomery Clift), this Top 10 hit by New Wave group The Motels also draws on the universe’s cyclical and mysterious nature to tell a story about one fateful summer, albeit through the lens of familiar coming-of-age themes like the loss of innocence.
Co-written by lead singer Martha Davis and composer Ronald Czajkowski, “Suddenly Last Summer” was the first single off of The Motels' fourth studio album, Little Robbers. Released in August 1983, the song peaked at #9 on November 19, 1983.
In a 2019 interview with Davis, journalist Linda Tuccio-Koonz strikes the nerve center of the track’s synth-y symbolism, noting:
The song, written after (Davis’s) parents had died-her mom by suicide and her dad from illness-is a reflection on those moments in life when things are changing, like when it’s a beautiful sunny day and a cold wind blows and you know the end of summer is coming. This haunting lament for a loss of innocence was written by the group’s lead singer Martha Davis, who explained to American Songwriter that the composition of the song essentially spanned over a decade. “I was just sitting in the backyard and it was a beautiful sunny day in Berkeley,” Davis remembered. “It was the end of summer. All of the sudden this ice cold wind comes out. You know winter is right around the corner. You just feel that chill, and even though the sun is shining, there’s a coldness to it. And then I heard the ice cream truck. I thought that’s probably the last time I’m going to hear that ice cream truck.

[@GaiusPrimusMatius]

Dreamy song..... nostalgia ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@NewPowerArt]

Amazing. Beautiful. Like 7 💖💖💖

[@miamikeith]

Thank you so much

[@marryannlamb9853]

Great video Keith. Have a great holiday week end.

[@ThomasPicone]

Was 26 in'83 definitely in personal top 5 songs ever Martha great talent

[@sweetrainasmr]

Beautiful scenes🙂

[@dianewood4799]

Absolutely love this video! ❤️

[@miamikeith]

Thank you so much!!

[@SunFL]

❤️❤️❤️❤️😎

[@miamikeith]

Thanks for watching and ❤😊

[@SunFL]

@@miamikeith 😎❤️

[@Jennifr1966]

Can someone please explain the song? I get that it ended suddenly, whereas maybe she didn't expect that. Is that all to it?

[@miamikeith]

Hi, I wrote what I know in the song description.

[@Tocaraca]

The singer sounds like Kate Bush