Show 177
"Well it's summer time again, like an old long-lost friend.
Like a lover you warm my skin, open the window I breathe you in."
Miriam Lieberman
Waiting For the Sun - Powderfinger, from their 2000 album Odyssey Number Five. We have it on a 2004 compilation, Fingerprints: The Best of Powderfinger 1994-2000.
Sun, Sea And You - Pond, from their 2012 album Beard, Wives, Denim. Pond is one of the groups run by Jay Watson, who sometimes collaborates with Kevin Parker in Tame Impala.
Sunshine - the Babe Rainbow, from their EP titled Fresh As A Head Of Lettuce, a 2023 release.
Warm At Night - the Vandas, named as sort of a tribute to the great Easybeats songwriter Harry Vanda, from their album Slow Burn, which came out in 2008.
Midnight Sunshine - Tex Perkins with the Dark Horses, one of his many projects, from 2003, the album Sweet Nothing.
Into the vault
Summer City was a movie made in 1977, filmed in Newcastle, a city on the north coast of New South Wales. Today the film is noteworthy as it reportedly was Mel Gibson's big-screen debut. It was also released to some markets as Coast of Terror and is described as a "drama thriller," which makes some of the soundtrack choices distinctly odd. The songs here are from a 2006 soundtrack record subtitled as "music from and inspired by" the movie.
We heard
- Hanging Five, by the Delltones, a 1963 single and it was on their album Surf 'N Stomp
- Ain't It So, by Lonnie Lee, a 1959 single
- Rockin' Rollin' Clementine, by Col Joye, also from 1959
Sum sum sum sum summertime
Summertime Again - Miriam Lieberman, from her 2014 album Birds of the Moon (check out her lyrics at the top of this list).
Summertime - Gentle Ben and His Serious Side, from their 2005 album The Sober Light of Day.
Summer Rain - Paul Kelly, it was on his album Wanted Man, a 1994 release.
Surf's Up
Surfs Up - prose spoken by the late Chris Wilson, it's on his 1998 album The Long Weekend.
Surf's Up Tonight - Midnight Oil, from their 1996 album Breathe.
We've Got You Covered
Fat Old Sun - as presented by guitarist Shane O'Mara and his band the Silversound from their 2023 self-titled debut album. In 1970 a British band called Pink Floyd released it on their album Atom Heart Mother, written and sung by their guitarist David Gilmour.
Dom Mariani and the Majestic Kelp start us off, move us along, and tell us when we're done.
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