I want to make a good collection of good summer and spring songs now that it's getting warm outside here in the cold north where I live . Anyone have some nice tunes to share?

These are some songs I think of on top of my head.

Isley Brothers - Summer Breeze
Sugarhill Gang - Hot Hot Summer Day
Jamiroquai - Seven Days In Sunny June
Nancy Wilson - Call Me
5th Dimension - Stoned Soul Picnic

I`m in the cold north too

Katrina and the waves: Walking on sunshine" (The best summer song ever)
Debarge: "Rhythm of the night"
Diana Ross: "Baby i love your way"

Jill Scott- Golden

The Cardigans- Carnival (easiest found on the Austin Powers soundtrack)

Sade- Sweetest Taboo

Sanatana- Black Magic Woman

Erykah Badu- Back In The Day

Prince- Rasberry Beret or Take Me With You

Bebel Gilberto- Baby

Norah Jones- Sunrise

New York Voices- Open Invitation

James Taylor- Summer's Here

Carly Simon- You Belong to Me

Paul McCartney (& Wings)- Silly Love Songs

Steely Dan- Hey 19

Jamie Cullum- These Are The Days

Groove Theory- Ride

Little River Band- Reminiscing

Mary Jane Girls- All Night Long

Teena Marie- Square Biz

Rupert Holmes- Escape (The Pina Colada Song)

Sheryl Crow- All I Wanna Do or Surf In The Sun

Jill Scott- Free (album intro AND reprise version from the live cd double set)

Anita Baker- Same Old Love

Sarah McLachlan- Ice Cream

India.arie- Little Things

New Radicals- You Get What You Give

Rickie Lee Jones- Chuck E.'s In Love

Roy Ayers- My Life in The Sunshine

Thievery Corporation ft. Bebel Gilberto- So Com Voce

Lucy Pearl- Dance Tonight AND The LaLa Song

Bob Marley- Jammin'

Vanessa Daou- Two To Tango

Fleetwood Mac- Anything from the "RUMOURS" album

....and some random songs that have been covered by a trillion different artists...


Key Largo
C'mon A My House
I Can See Clearly Now
The March of Waters (it sounds lighter and cuter in the Portugese versions)
Feel Like Makin' Love
Cruisin'
The Girl From Ipanema
Everyday People
Hello, Stranger
Hot Fun In The Summertime
Stone Soul Picnic
Daytripper


and lastly----any ambient acid jazzy cd from the BUDDHA BAR or HOTEL COSTES series when you just want a sountrack to underscore any chill out summer-y activity like a party or somethin'

Sex in the Summer

Donnie - You Got a Friend
Donnie - Cloud
Donnie - Do You Know?
Fresh Prince & Jazzy Jeff - Summertime
Goapele - Closer
Rahsaan Patterson - Can't We Wait?
Rahsaan Patterson - Don't Wanna Lose
Taja Sevelle - How Could You Do Me So Bad?
Taja Sevelle - Love Is Contagious
The Family - The Screams of Passion
Maxwell - Asencion
Maxwell - Sumthin-Sumthin
Jesse Powell - You
Jesse Powell - You're The One I Love
D'Angelo - Crusin'
D'Angelo - Me And Those Dreamin' Eyes of Mine
Rahsaan Patterson - Come Over
Tony Toni Tone' - Slow Wine
Amel Larrieux - For Real
Donnel Jones - Where I Wanna Be
Amp Fiddler - Dreamin'
Javier - Crazy
[Edited 4/22/06 21:33pm]

Carbon Monoxide - Cake

Gravel - Ani Difranco

Sugar Coated - James Blunt

Strawberry Fields Forever - Beatles

Never Gonna Say I'm Sorry - Ace of Base

Evil Woman - Black Sabbath

Waiting On Today - P.O.D.

Don't Stop Dancing - Creed

Closer to the Heart - Rush

Too Much of Heaven - Eiffel 65

I Will Follow - U2

Could I Have This Kiss Forever - Enrique Iglesias

That's The Way It Is - Celine Dion

If You Don't Know Me By Now - Simply Red

Jump - Van Halen

High and Dry - Radiohead

Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2 - Pink Floyd

Joe's Garage - Frank Zappa

Hey Hey What Can I Do - Led Zeppelin

This Picture - Placebo

40 - Bush

Heaven - Suicidal Tendencies

Stay the Night - Mariah Carey

Ottensen said:

Thank you for that list, it's great.
Listening to "Chuck E.'s In Love" right now. Loving this song.

I think you'd have to make two compilations - one for Summer Days and one for Summer Nights...

Soul II Soul's 'Keep On Moving' is best listened to at sunset.

Revolution said:

Funny about this song...I wanted to dance to it onstage at work so I brought in my Emancipation CD to the DJ and had him download it into the system. Now other girls are dancing to it onstage all the time too...when I go to work I hear the song at least once a night and sometimes I'm not even dancing to it!

Fatback-Kool Whip
Donald Byrd-Happy Music
Africa Bambaataa-Zula Nation Throwdown part 1 &2
Evelyn King-Love Comes Down
Sun-The Sun is Here
Mass Production-Firecracker
Pleasure-Glide
Stone-Time
The Time-777-9311
Steve Arrington-Weak at the Knees
Sugarhill Gang-8th Wonder
Levert-Just coolin (a cool summer jam)