Song Of The Day 10/12/2015: Jonathan Richman – “That Summer Feeling”
I’d be remiss if I didn’t talk about the important role the Modern Lovers’ “Roadrunner” played in my oldest child Lucie’s development. There’s an MP3 floating around somewhere of Lucie and I at the piano when she was around two years old. She’s singing “Roadrunner” while I’m playing the song’s grand total of two chords on the keys. She gave the proper six-beat count-off. Caught most of the lyrics that were vital to the song, especially the Stop & Shop. It’s too bad we didn’t wind up moving to Massachusetts like we almost did last year; then everything could have come full circle.
And now, just in time for autumn: My favorite Jonathan song is “That Summer Feeling,” which he recorded a couple of times. I’ve chosen the electrified version with the backup singers. I personally can vouch that everything in this song is about as true as you can get: a dissertation on the romanticization of youth and the distortion it can cause later on if you haven’t been using the right filters on your dream sequences.
Thanks, Andy!