79. Setting Summer to Music

We all know the sounds of summer; kids playing outside, lawmowers, bugs, music on the radio, fireworks, baseball games, first kisses and falling in love. But have you ever wondered what Summer, set to music, sounds like?

War filled my room with the sounds of “Why Can’t We Be Friends” and “Low Rider” when I was a boy. I liked both of those songs enough so that later in life I found a “Best Of” LP at a used record store to add to my collection. This was the first time I’d heard this song, and I...