Top songs with "summer" in the title. The list:

1. "The Theme From 'A Summer Place,'" - Percy Faith (#1 for nine weeks, 1960)
2. "Summer in the City," - The Lovin' Spoonful (#1 for three weeks, 1966)
3. "In the Summertime," Shaggy Featuring Rayvon (#3, 1995)
4. "Summer Girls," LFO (#3, 1999)
5. "Hot Fun in the Summertime," Sly & the Family Stone (#2, 1969)
6. "Endless Summer Nights," Richard Marx (#2, 1988)
7. "Summertime," DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince (#4, 1991)
8. "In the Summertime," Mungo Jerry (#3, 1970)
9. "The Boys of Summer," Don Henley (#5, 1985)
10. "Cruel Summer," Ace of Base (#10, 1998)

vanity69 said:

Exxxxc-yuuse me?

It's all about Bananarama, folks.

VoicesCarry said:

Well Billboard is on crack! No verison of "Summer Breeze", a song I hear all the time on the radio?

No Tiffany???

"Summer in the City"

(QUINCY JONES YOU'VE GOT IT BAD GIRL cover pic wuz here)
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They forgot...

Corina - Summertime Summertime ("...take me, take me to the water, summertime, summertime...")
Ice Cube - My Summer Vacation
Ella Fitzgerald - Summertime
Dove Shack - Summertime In The LBC

what about "Summer" by War? That was the theme song of the summer of '76

JANFAN4L said:

I like Corina's verison better but the Noreca original is better known. They forgot a whole lot!

No kool and the gang

VinnyM27 said:

They're Billboard afterall. Most concerned with what was hot on the main pop chart.

JANFAN4L said:

Cha know, in the case of Summer Girls.

VoicesCarry said:

We know how I feel about that song, and sadly, Ace of Bass' version performed better They peaked in the same spot, but Ace of Bass' lame take on it was around longer.

VoicesCarry said:

I caught that.

RipHer2Shreds said:

Oh, dear. That was some terrible mid-90s euro-pop. I'd take The Real McCoy over that (and I'm stretching)

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JANFAN4L said:

Dove Shack! I had forgot about them. Go 'head! LOL "Summertime in tha LBCCCCC. Oooooo ahhhhh"

Idais said:

Me and my grrrls roll deep in a '94 Wrangler Jeeep..."

lilgish said:

"Summer Madness" is my shit too!

RipHer2Shreds said:

I still hear Bananrama's verison every so often....haven't heard Ace's for years!

JANFAN4L said:

I remember Dove Shack.

dreamfactory313 said:

Me too

VinnyM27 said:

And that's the way it should be!

RipHer2Shreds said:

exactly.....found this on the Billboard site. In a letters written to the chart guro over there.

Looks like Bananramas version is #17

Dear Toby,

I'm glad CNN.com picked up my story from Billboard magazine, even if they did fail to run my byline. I can't complain, since they did mention my book, "Billboard's Hottest Hot 100 Hits," which was the source for the top 10 list -- and therein lies the answer to your question.

The top 10 songs with "summer" in the title wasn't based on peak position, but on a point system developed for "Hottest Hot 100 Hits." Peak position and length of time on the chart are factored in, so songs that had high peaks but short runs might not fare as well as songs with lower peak positions but longer visits on the chart.

When I compiled the list of summer hits for the Billboard article, I noticed that a lot of popular summer songs failed to make the top 10, but were ranked in the next 10. So I provided a list of the songs ranked 11-20 and my editors consented to run it as a sidebar. For those who didn't see the print article, here are the songs ranked 11-20:

11. "Suddenly Last Summer," The Motels
12. "Summer Nights," John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John
13. "Summer of '69," Bryan Adams
14. "Summer," War
15. "Summer Breeze," Seals & Crofts
16. "Summertime Blues," Eddie Cochran
17. "Cruel Summer," Bananarama
18. "A Summer Song," Chad & Jeremy
19. "Those Lazy-Hazy-Crazy Days of Summer," Nat King Cole
20. "Summertime Blues," Blue Cheer

You can read about the top 10 songs in the July 30 issue of Billboard, or check the story posted at CNN.com.

newpower99 said:

Thanks for posting these. I knew it was all about chart performance, that's why I wasn't really bothered with great songs like the real version of Cruel Summer, Summer Breeze and Summer Madness being left off.

JANFAN4L said:

Nocera's is so much better

SEX IN THE SUMMER - PRINCE

LFO's "Summer Girls"???