Songs that are about, or at least highlight, the END of summer

"You say your summer has gone..."

Haha yeah, it's a stretch. I still associate that song with the end of summer, or early fall. Partly the harmonies, partly the title, definitely the nostalgic, memories-are-crystallizing vibe of it. And the flute solo.

The sun shines high above
The sounds of laughter
The birds swoop down upon
The crosses of old grey churches
We say that we're in love
While secretly wishing for rain
Sipping coke and playing games
September's here again
September's here again

Bobby Goldsboro: Summer (the first time).
"Was a hot afternoon -the last day of June- And the sun was a demon."

Very "end of summer" vibe on this record, in spite of the seasonal placing on the opening line. Particularly in the swooping strings after the "I saw the sunrise as a man" line. A great, great record, in fact.

One summer never ends
One summer never begins
It keeps me standing still
It takes all my will
And then suddenly
Last summer

Garth Brooks's "That Summer" (another one about being deflowered by an older woman) feels pretty verge-of-autumn as well, maybe because he keeps talking about wheatfields, and also because maybe all songs wistfully nostaglic for summer = late summer, except when they don't.

bebel gilberto - august song
beautiful and very melancholic

Blanche - "Another Lost Summer"

oh, it hasn't?...(raises eyebrow)

Garth Brooks's "That Summer" (another one about being deflowered by an older woman) feels pretty verge-of-autumn as well, maybe because he keeps talking about wheatfields, and also because maybe all songs wistfully nostaglic for summer = late summer, except when they don't.

But Garth is from Oklahoma, where most of the wheat grown is winter wheat. Winter wheat is typically harvested in mid June, not even summer!

I dig the song, though, and agree that it fits in the thread.

"It brings me good weather... It keeps me together... It picks me up when I'm -- DOWN..."

KD Lang's Summer Fling

always gave me that feeling I hope newer music would have in this vain. Not perfect, but timely.

Steve Goldberg - Summer's Ending

-- Doctor Casino (agode...), Saturday 6:02 AM. (Doctor Casino)

You don't know anything about surfing. Go watch some Gidget reruns to prevent further embarrassment.

It was actually the song that made me want to make the thread (along with "David's Last Summer") but it slipped my mind when I actually got around to posting it.

Judas Priest - "Last Rose Of Summer"

Don't forget the version by Eugenius.

XTC's Harvest Festival is a shocking omission, actually. Consider it belatedly added.

Cousteau: "The Last Good Day Of The Year"

Zebra - "Wait Til The Summer's Gone" (Fastway-style post-Zep pop-metal AOR from 1984)

actual title: "Wait UNTIL The Summer's Gone." (sorry)

I haven't heard Zebra since sitting on the school bus, driven by Otto, back in 1984. I really liked "Who's Behind the Door". Is there much more to them?

From Rolling Metal thread, earlier this week:

This morning I am listening to Zebra (two-LPs one one CD reissue of No Tellin Lies and 3.V, which I've never heard before though Martin Popoff insists that they're not quite as good as the self-titled debut LP which I bought a copy of for $1 a few months back but still haven't gotten around to putting on yet-- xhuxk, Saturday, June 9, 2007 4:35 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Link

my favorite Zebra songs so far are "I Don't Like It", "Drive Me Crazy," and the curiously jazz-swung "I Don't Care," all on No Tellin' Lies. "About To Make The Time" on 3.V, on the other hand, sounds exactly like Styx. The singer, as others have pointed out, has a helium falsetto maybe almost worthy of the guy in Pavlov's Dog. His high notes in "Isn't That The Way" could nearly pass for Frankie Valli or Lou Christie, which may well be unprecedented in the hard rock realm. Basically, though, they're a Zeppy AOR band in the Fastway or Kingdom Come sense, and I'm liking them a whole lot. (When they were sharing CD-changer space with Swan Song sisters Lez Zeppelin yesterday, I kept getting
confused because songs would come up that sounded like Zeppelin but weren't otherwise familiar, and then I'd remember that Zebra were also in the mix.)

-- xhuxk, Sunday, June 10, 2007 7:21 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Link

Zebra were a huge bar band in the New Jersey->Long Island metro area for years prior to their first record, which as I may recall, had a good version of the Beatles' "Slow Down" on it. Like Twisted Sister, like Rat Race Choir, the latter which never made it. I remember ignoring Zebra a lot at the Allentown Fairgrounds or other big LV venues. They did hit the same audience as Kingdom Come whose second album didn't sound nearly as much like Zep as the first which had the Kashmir cop on it. I actually still like the second KC LP.

-- Gorge, Sunday, June 10, 2007 7:58 PM (5 days ago) Bookmark Link

My favorite track on 3.V is "Better Not Call," I think -- new wave disco-metal powerpop, sweet!

Songs about waiting for summer to end: "It Might As Well Rain Until September" - Carole King & "Sealed With A Kiss" - Brian Hyland

summer by anna domino, especially the arthur baker remix!

Justin Timberlake - "Summer Love", obv.
Outkast - "13th Floor/Growing Old"

Who brought this thread back in June and why?

archer prewitt - summer's end

roxy music, "sunset"

actually, all of stranded for me. strictly speaking, not an end-of-summer record, but that's the only time i listen to it.

What a depressive thread to resurrect in JUNE!

;)

Style Council - Long Hot Summer

Taylor Swift, "Tim McGraw"

Just a boy in a Chevy truck,
That had a tendency of gettin’ stuck,
On backroads at night
An’ I was right there beside him all summer long
An’ then the time we woke up to find that summer’d gone

Dusty Springfield - Summer Is Over
Carole King - I Didn't Have Any Summer Romance

christy cummins, "summer memories"

(i'm spending my evening following youtube links for something called "teensound girls," which seems to be an endless collection of second-rate late '50s and early '60s girl group pop with deliciously weird arrangements by people like christy cummins, courtney rain, clairette clement, bernadette carroll, claudia carithose and literally dozens of others who i know nothing or next-to-nothing about, and half of whose names appear to be misspelled on these clips, and i love that there was a singer named christy cummins, and it occurs to me that everyone i listed above and most of what i have listened to so far are artists whose first and/or last name begins with a C, even though i am just aimlessly following youtube links, and, well, this particular song is called "summer memories" so there you go.)

Fuzzy - Summer Is Gone

In Flames -- Darker Times (first line: "September is here again.")

Ash "Oh Yeah", but that's about the start of the summer

Yo La Tengo's "Summer," though I can't really tell if it's about the end of summer. The melancholy feel and line "'til the summer comes undone" make it seem like it is.

Loudon Wainwright III - "Summer's Almost Over"

On Some Faraway Beach, Eno?

According to Ken Emerson (in his Stephen Foster book Doo Dah), Thomas Moore's 19th Century "'Tis The Last Rose Of Summer" (a song I'm not sure I've ever heard) "may have been the first song ever to sell more than a million copies." (Sheet music, obviously.)