Southern Sass: It's Starting to Sound Like Summer

5.23.2016

It's Starting to Sound Like Summer

It's one week until Memorial Day. So it's officially time we discussed the song of summer. Join us as we look back at the last 50 years of summer songs—which we're defining as the tune tha

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May 23, 2016

Songs of Summer | The Last 50 Years
A Look Back at the Defining Summer Music Since 1966

It's one week until Memorial Day.

So it's officially time we discussed the song of summer.

Join us as we look back at the last 50 years of summer songs—which we're defining as the tune that spent the longest at #1 on the Billboard charts during the summer of a given year. We analyzed each song by beats per minute, compiled its most common lyrics and established the feeling it evokes as determined by our dauntless colleagues.