Summer comes in 2002
1.) Martha & the Vandellas - Dancing in the Street
2.) Dire Straits - Twistin' By the Pool
3.) Eddie Cochran - Summertime Blues
4.) Lovin' Spoonful - Summer in the City
5.) Sly & the Family Stone - Hot Fun in the Summertime
6.) Alice Cooper - School's Out
7.) War - Summer
8.) Janis Joplin - Summertime
9.) Billy Stewart - Summertime
10.) Mungo Jerry - In the Summertime
11.) Beach Boys - Good Vibrations
I remember this set very, very well. I'd come back to SF for a week to visit (it was on this day, actually, that I met several of you to see the Princess play "Night on Broadway," "Somebody's Knocking," "The Ocean," and several originals at Cafe de la Presse; but I digresse) and was on the 38 Geary en route to the ocean during this set. "Hot Fun" came on in the avenues near all those Russian bakeries, and I called in a BOS vote; then he played Billy Stewart's "Summertime" and I recanted. T'was a lovely, lovely day.
Re Cindy Bullens, I knew we'd heard it at least once before here due to another random memory. Shortly after moving to NYC, I attended the Global Entertainment & Media Summit, an entertainment-biz conf, and Cindy was on a panel with a couple people I knew. I'd never heard of her but she was said to have placed a song or two on the
Grease soundtrack. She'd just re-entered the music biz after a long period of retirement following the death of her child, and had what seemed an inflated sense of how big she'd been. Soon afterwards I heard "Survivor" for the first time and it was an instant WOS for me, reminding me in a weird way of Andrew Gold's "Lonely Boy," and you all know how I feel about that one.
OK, now I'm really blathering . . .
