Hot Fun In The Summertime

Album: Greatest Hits (1969)
Charted: 2
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  • End of the spring and here she comes back
    Hi, hi, hi, hi there

    Them summer days
    Those summer days

    That's when I have most of my fun back
    High, high, high, high there

    Them summer days
    Those summer days

    I cloud nine when I want to
    Out of school, yeah

    County fair in the country sun

    And everything is cool
    Ooh, yeah, yeah

    Hot fun in the summertime
    Hot fun in the summertime
    Hot fun in the summertime
    Hot fun in the summertime

    First of the fall and then she goes back
    Bye, bye, bye, bye there

    Them summer days
    Those summer days

    Bo-bo-bo-bop-bop when I want to
    Out of school

    County fair in the country sun

    And everything is cool
    Ooh, yeah, yeah

    Hot fun in the summertime (hey, hey, hey, hoo)
    Hot fun in the summertime (oh, yeah, yeah)
    Hot fun in the summertime Writer/s: Sylvester Stewart
    Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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Comments: 8

  • Dan from Seattle1969 - Woodstock summer

    Followup to:

    1968 - the summer that changed America

    1967 - summer of love

    1966 - the endless summer

    1965 - miniskirt summer

    1964 - the year that rock 'n' roll came back

    Anybody who wasn't a teenager in the 60's, you really missed something.
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn August 3rd 1969, "Hot Fun In the Summertime" by Sly and the Family Stone entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #79; and on October 12th, 1969 it peaked at #2 {for 2 weeks} and spent 16 weeks on the Top 100 {and for 7 of those 16 weeks it was on the Top 10}...It reached #3 on Billboard's R&B Chart.
  • Camille from Toronto, OhI love the poetic sound of the lyrics: hi, hi, hi, hi there....bye, bye, bye, bye there. Definitely a bit of melancholy and a yearning for the simpler days. That's what I think of when I hear the song. It has the 'take things a little slower, it's summertime' kind of feel. "County fair in the country sun".....my, my, my, my there.
  • Muzica from Atlanta, GaAnger? Geez, Louise . . . sounds some negative projection here. Great song . . . if there's any melancholy, perhaps it might be that he (Sly) wished for those innocent days when all people could live freely without the social conditions that breed ignorance and hatred. Maybe his soul knew and desired that place of freedom, innocence, creativity, vulnerability and justice for all. Maybe the daily realities that he understood all to well was what he tried to self-medicate from with drugs. But the song? Not an ounce of anger, not in the lyric, nor the music. More summer, more springs . . . may we have this to look forward to in our world.
  • Matt from Galway, IrelandI find this song not so much melancholic but angry about the summer. I mean, being Sly and the Family Stone, I read anger and social concern in this song as much as in Stand! Maybe it's just me, but that's kind of how react to most songs by Sly Stone
  • Amara from Victorille, CaI meant "because", sorry about the typo.
  • Amara from Victorille, CaOnly one comment on this one?? Shame, because this is such a classic.
  • John from Nashville, TnThis song, "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" and "Everybody Is A Star" were supposed to be part of a new studio album by Sly and the Family Stone. However, due to Sly's drug problems and CBS Records demands for a new Sly album, the three tracks were released on the band's first bestselling Greatest Hits album.
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