Music for hot weather...

(optimistically) Raindrops keep falling on my head.

oops, I'm stuttering there with Stranger.

Sttranger On The Shore by Acker Bilk

Ah yes but Debbie Harry could have worn anything! The rest of us need a bit of thoughtful dressing.

I'll put a bin bag on Tegan and see if it enhances my looks.

I was pondering that the other day because in a programme I was watching it showed Joan Jets first group, The Runaways and some of them wore very provocative clothes even though they were a breakthrough female band and were feminists. I've never quite worked out why feminists have to wear such clothes and why it is supposed to be empowering. I mean, the sexiest woman on the planet years ago was Debbie Harry when she used to wear things like bin bags.

I have got into the mood for summer music since reading this thread however when I clicked onto my usual YouTube music and typed in Relaxing Summer Music many of the pictures to promote the music were of sexually provocative women.

I am no prude but why do women have to be portrayed so often as sexual objects, as opposed to thinking women. In a few years my two GSs will be using the internet and I am horrified at what they will see and how they will treat women because of it. I will have to do my best to guide them (in an unstuffy way) through what looks like a minefield.

It's a sad old world.

Blue Bayou

Sleepy Lagoon [music to Desert Island Discs]
Summer In The City,
Lazin' On A Sunny Afternoon

'Up on the roof' and 'Under the Boardwalk' and, if you give me a minute, I'll tell you who recorded them! The Drifters - possibly

Thanks Tegan, I really enjoyed the link. Odd movie though? Xx

www.youtube.com/watch?v=m648v4s5sFc
..had to listen to it!

Yes Tegan I remember those fogs as well just awful. Do you remember when only the rooms that had a fire in we're relatively warm and everywhere else was freezing ? Central heating was unheard of.

Back to the wall to wall sunshine. Off for a picnic today with our visiting family. It's gone well but it will be lovely to have the house back to ourselves on Monday.

Summer in the City - Lovin' Spoonful from the hot summer of 1968! X

I do remember the fogs we used to have; they usd to send us home early from school because the buses weren't running [even though you could only see a couple of feet in front of you and had to walk for miles .

My summers in the 50s seemed to be endless sunshine. I wore shorts and an airtex top with t bar sandals. I would cycle for hours with my friends and we were perfectly safe. What halcyon days.

I agree; all sweeping landscapes. Realising that the music is mainly 'outdoor music' in that, even though I'm mainly inside the house the music I'm listening to makes me feel outside..surfing [as if I'd ever surf ], walking in the countryside, being on the beach etc. As for the sunsets we've been having lately; wow! Now going to watch a bit of the Commonwealth Games and play The Byrds again. And it's retro music, which I don't often play. Which is why, I suppose,when I think about my childhood, the sun is always shining [never, ever remember it raining].

Not pompous at all - beautiful music.

This might make me sound pompous but anything by Vaughan Williams especially 'The Lark Ascending'. So evocative of hot countryside in early summer, larks hurling themselves into the air singing with a backdrop of the hum of bees! Still get this (although admittedly the hot summers are rare ) up in the Mourne mountains where we have a cottage. Happy days.

Procol Harum - Whiter Shade of Pale. Misty harvest mornings then a heat haze later in the day.

Thanks Eloethan

The Gypsy Kings

That's a point. Where are the ladybirds?

I know they are worried about declining numbers of butterflies - heard David Attenborough on the radio - but not ladybirds.

I have had the Beach Boys o the CD in the car with windows down all week - fab!!

nankate "California Girls" Beach Boys.