What songs, no matter when you hear them, mean warm sunshine and cool evening breezes to you? Is it a song you heard many moons ago? Or some tune that just brings that glorious time to mind? Mine are, in no particular order:

1. "Dancing in the Streets" - Martha Reeves and the Vanedellas, "Calling out around the world are you ready for a brand new beat?" Masterful....

2. "Stone Soul Picnic" - 5th Dimension, Laura Nyro's masterpiece of summer soul.

3. "Hot fun in the Summertime" - Sly and the Family Stone. Classic

4. "Wouldn't it be nice?" - The Beach Boys - Doesn't get any better.

5. "My Girl"- The Temptations - "I got Sunshine on a cloudy day...." Poetry courtesy of William Smokey Robinson.

6. " All Day Music" - War. Warm california soul.

7. "I do love you." - Billy Stewart, sung by the cats on the bench below my project window on warm summer nights.

8. "Grazing in the Grass - Hugh Masekela. What a summer instrumental.

9. "Ohh Ohh Child" - 5 Stairsteps. My first summer ever in sleep away camp.

10. "In the summertime" - Mungo Jerry. Sorry man, it just works for me.

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

Da Worfster