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Summer In The City by The Lovin' Spoonful
Genre: Pop Rock
Year: 1966
Year: 1966
For the Regina Spektor song with the same title, see Summer in the City (Regina Spektor song).
"Summer in the City" is a 1966 hit single by The Lovin Spoonful, written by Mark Sebastian (brother of John Sebastian) and Steve Boone. It came from their album, Hums of the Lovin Spoonful. It reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1966.
The song featured a series of car horns, during the instrumental bridge, starting with a Volkswagen Beetle horn, and ending up with a jackhammer sound, in order to give the impressions of the sounds of the summer in the city. The song is ranked number 393 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.
The signature keyboard part is played on a Hohner Pianet, and the organ is a Vox Continental. Read full article at wikipedia.org
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