Hot Fun in the SummertimeSly and the Family Stone
Hot Fun in the Summertime
1969 · From Greatest Hits
Violins in the upper register, rare for Sly, on a single released weeks before the band played Woodstock.
★ 6.4
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Summertime Sadness
2012
Two labels rejected Cedric Gervais's remix; Radio 1 played it anyway, and the remix took a Grammy and number six.
★ 6.3
Summertime
1991
Hula and K. Fingers looped Kool and the Gang's Summer Madness, and the duo won a Grammy for it.
★ 6.1
Cruel SummerBananarama
Cruel Summer
1983
Jolley and Swain built it around oppressive heat, and The Karate Kid carried it into the American top ten.
★ 5.7
Girl
2005 · From Guero
Thirteen seconds of chiptune open it, and the Dust Brothers built the rest around Beck jamming acoustic guitar.
★ 5.6
California Gurls
Katy Perry and Snoop Dogg
2010
Perry's West Coast answer to Empire State of Mind, the misspelling saluting Big Star, six weeks at number one.
★ 4.9
Summer Breeze
1972
Larry Knechtel on piano, Jim Gordon on drums, and a chorus that arrives like the evening it describes.
★ 4.8
Summer Love
2007 · From FutureSex / LoveSounds
Cut at Thomas Crown Studios in Virginia Beach, with a prelude fused to the front of the summer single.
★ 4.1
Steal My Sunshine
1999
A loop lifted from Andrea True Connection, two siblings trading verses, and a master tape left under a bed.
★ 3.7