The challenge was to come up with a list of songs that, like the Lovin’ Spoonful’s timeless “Summer in the City, ” had some connection to New York when it’s hot outside. That knocked out a lot of perennial favorites: no “School’s Out” by Alice Cooper. No “In The Summertime” by Mungo Jerry. No Beach Boys. Still, it wasn’t hard to find enough songs; the hard part was knowing when to stop.
Detroit can rightly claim this ultimate summer song, but the lyrics are more inclusive: “They’re dancing in Chicago/Down in New Orleans/In New York City.”
“In the heat of the summer/Better call up the plumber/And turn on the street pump/To cool me off.” The Brooklyn native’s biggest hit sounded like the Rolling Stones covering a lost Lou Reed track.
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From the songwriting team of Carole King and Gerry Goffin, this classic’s lyrics never actually mention “summer in New York, ” but with its “rat race noise down in the street” and its rooftop air so “fresh and sweet, ” how can it not be?
The tradition of great Latin summer hits includes last year’s “Despacito” by Luis Fonsi, “Gasolina” by Daddy Yankee in 2004 and any number of Fania All-Stars tunes from the 70s. But it all began in New York in 1966, with this irresistible number by the “Father of Latin Boogaloo.”
The line “Don’t push me ‘cause I’m close to the edge” was a reminder that the city was always just a power outage away from chaos.
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George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward wrote this enduring favorite, but the “vintage pop” singer Kat Edmonson rereleased it in 2009 as a kind of indie rock ballad. “Summertime” has been recorded countless times, but never like this.
Jazzy Jeff and young Will Smith were not New Yorkers, but this 1991 tune is built on “Summer Madness, ” from Jersey City’s own Kool & The Gang.
English producer Jamie xx was inspired by the music he heard on New York’s Hot 97 radio station, and the sample is from that great New York musical institution, the Persuasions.
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This band is based in Baltimore, but it was a career-making performance in New York on “The Late Show With David Letterman” that propelled this seasonal song to the top of many “Best Of” lists.Thanks to all of our fantastic Parks, New Yorkers have plenty of choices for where to spend time outdoors during the warm weather months. And besides enjoying picnics, games or just lounging, you can also hear some incredible music performances in NYC Parks this summer, and all for free.
Many cultural institutions partner with local Parks to bring musical sounds to the public when the weather warms up, and so many have recently been announced that we had to put them all in one, easy-to-read spot so you can start planning out your summer.
This season three different types of musical events will be offered: Sunset on the Hudson, Jazz at Pier 84, and the Blues BBQ Festival.
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A free series featuring both established and emerging NYC artists across a broad range of genres. Enjoy this music at 7 p.m. at Pier 45 (West Village) on the following days:
Listen to smooth tunes in partnership with the Jazz Foundation of America. Catch the show at 7 p.m. at Pier 84 (Hell’s Kitchen) on the following dates:
Head to the fan-favorite Blues BBQ Festival for beer, BBQ, and blues music. The lineup features artists such as Jackie Venson, Dwayne Dopsie, and Walter Wolfman Washington.
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Hudson Yards’ return of their free concert series on the Wells Fargo Stage is back! The live outdoor concerts happen every Wednesday at 6 pm, through August 9th in the Public Square & Gardens. Doors open at 5pm. See the lineup below:
The long-celebrated NYC summer tradition “River & Blues Concert Series” is coming back this July to an all new location of Rockefeller Park. With breathtaking views of Hudson River sunsets as a backdrop this, refreshing waterfront breezes spot will welcome the very best of Global and American folk, roots and blues music. Shows are every Thursday in July with doors at 6 pm and show at 7 pm! See lineup below.
Free string quartet performances will be held on Wednesday’s on Madison Square Park’s Oval Lawn at 6p.m. Selections are inspired by Sheila Pepe’s
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This music event is an all-day family-friendly event of free live music that includes country, folk, blues, jazz, and more, while celebrating LGBTQ+ and BIPOC artists. This event will take place the weekend of Saturday, June 24 from 3 p.m. – 10 p.m. at Pier 6 Liberty Lawn.
, an all-day music festival celebrating hip-hop’s 50th anniversary and legacy as a cultural phenomenon. And the festival includes a with a live performance from New York legends, Wu-Tang Clan! Learn more about it here.Little did members of Lovin’ Spoonful know that a few months after this photo was taken, their song would be a huge hit and that they — and New York — would be at the center of a brief pop rock moment.Credit... David Gahr/Getty Images
During the summer of 1966, a heat wave boiled New York City at the most brutal temperatures recorded since 1869, the year weather data began to be consistently collected. For 34 days it was 90 degrees or higher.
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The conflict in Vietnam was also heating up, with 382, 010 men drafted into service that year, 151, 019 more than the previous year. Opposition to the war as well as to chronic discrimination against blacks, women and gays was gathering steam in the city. Clashes broke out elsewhere, with race riots that summer in Chicago and Lansing, Mich.
“America was convulsing in a way, a time of huge unrest, incredible violence, ” said Jon Savage, author of “1966: The Year the Decade Exploded.”
The poet Allen Ginsberg in Washington Square Park, reading his work during the (very hot) summer of 1966.Credit... Dan Farrell/NY Daily News Archive via Getty Images
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On Aug. 1, in Austin, Tex., a lone gunman introduced America to mass murder. Charles Whitman killed his mother and wife and then more than a dozen people, sniper-style, from the University of Texas’s clock tower, wounding more than 30 others.
Meanwhile, “Summer in the City, ” a propulsive, apolitical rock song by the New York-based the Lovin’ Spoonful, was climbing the charts to No. 1, reassuring listeners that “despite the heat it’ll be all right.” Sung and co-written by John Sebastian, the band’s frontman, the song was conceived by his younger brother, Mark Sebastian, when he was just 14. Steve Boone, the bass player, contributed the memorable instrumental interlude. The three shared writing credit and continue to reap royalties: The song has endured as an anthem for every heat wave since and has been covered by Quincy Jones, Joe Cocker and Isaac Hayes, among others.
(It will most likely figure prominently at a concert, “Music and Revolution: Greenwich Village in the 1960s, ” on Aug. 12 at Central Park’s SummerStage, where Sebastian is part of a lineup that includes José Feliciano and Maria Muldaur.)
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In addition to Sebastian and Boone, the original band members (Mark was too young) were Zal Yanovsky on guitar and Joe Butler on drums. Their producer, Erik Jacobsen, helped shape their 1965 debut album, “Do You Believe in Magic, ” and their 1966 follow-up album, “Daydream.” Their manager, Bob Cavallo, masterminded the business end. In 1966, the group also supplied the soundtrack to Woody Allen’s “What’s Up, Tiger Lily?” They toured extensively and with their rapid rise to fame, found themselves in need of more material. One day, Sebastian heard something intriguing from his younger brother.
Mark really was the beginning of the song. Hot town, summer in the city … but at night it’s a different world. “Hey, hold on, what’s that?” I said.
A mix session for “Summer in the City.” Mark Sebastian, center, was 15 at the time. From rear left: Erik Jacobsen, the producer, Joe Butler, the drummer, and John Sebastian. “At this stage I was having my mind blown, it sounded so great, ” Mark recalled. “Nobody said, ‘Mark, you’re such a genius, this is the best thing we’ve got, ’ so I didn’t know anything about it going on the album, didn’t know the machinations of what Erik was saying to my brother.”Credit... Don Paulsen
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I recently found the songbook I wrote it in, in pencil. My brother, who’d moved out by then, was back home visiting and listened to what I’d written.
The song soon became a contender for the band’s next album, which they were under pressure to produce quickly. “Cavallo had us on the road so much that we never had the luxury of dedicated periods of recording, ” said Steve Boone, the bass player. By March of 1966, just a few months after wrapping “Daydream, ” they were back in the studio to record what would become “Hums of the Lovin’ Spoonful, ” which would feature “Summer in the City.” From the beginning, the band was excited about the single’s potential, no matter that it began with a dreamy adolescent longing to break out of his family’s tony residence, tucked between Macdougal
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