{"id":5795,"date":"2010-06-09T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=5795"},"modified":"2013-06-11T07:44:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T13:44:25","slug":"top-25-songs-of-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/top-25-songs-of-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"25 of the Best Songs of Summer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Enjoying the beach views in Progreso, Mexico | Photo by Laurie Blundell<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The heat’s pounding the pavement here in Texas — and the windows are just begging to be rolled down as you cruise through the neighborhood with your tracks blasting (is it still OK to do that if I’m 31?).<\/p>\n

Thought I’d revisit some of those great songs of summer I can remember cruisin’ to back in the day…<\/p>\n

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  1. Gangsta’s Paradise – Colio<\/a> & Amish Paradise – Weird Al<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. I Can See Clearly Now – Johnny Nash<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Boot, Scoot and Boogie – Brooks and Dunn<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Sign – Ace of Base<\/a><\/li>\n
  5. Magaritaville – Jimmy Buffett<\/a><\/li>\n
  6. Saturday in the Park – Chicago<\/a><\/li>\n
  7. Summer of ’69 – Bryan Adams<\/a><\/li>\n
  8. Low Rider – War<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Joy to the World – Three Dog Night<\/a><\/li>\n
  10. Little Deuce Coupe – Beach Boys<\/a><\/li>\n
  11. Car Wash – Rose Royce<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. Good Vibrations – Beach Boys<\/a><\/li>\n
  13. Hey Ya! – Outkast<\/a><\/li>\n
  14. Are You Gonna Be My Girl – Jet<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. Highway to Hell – AC\/DC<\/a><\/li>\n
  16. Schools Out for the Summer – Alice Cooper<\/a><\/li>\n
  17. American Woman – The Guess Who<\/a> or Lenny Kravitz<\/a><\/li>\n
  18. Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana<\/span><\/li>\n
  19. Welcome To Paradise – Green Day<\/a><\/li>\n
  20. Buddy Holly – Weezer<\/a><\/li>\n
  21. Walk This Way – Run DMC and Aerosmith<\/a><\/li>\n
  22. Summertime – DJ Jazzy Jeff & Fresh Prince<\/a><\/li>\n
  23. Ice, Ice, Baby – Vanilla Ice<\/a><\/li>\n
  24. California Girls – Beach Boys<\/a><\/li>\n
  25. Wipe Out – Beach Boys and Fat Boys<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    TAG – You’re it! <\/h2>\n

    What are your favorites?<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The heat’s pounding the pavement here in Texas — and the windows are just begging to be rolled down as you cruise through the neighborhood with your tracks blasting (is it still OK to do that if I’m 31?). Thought I’d revisit some of those great songs of summer I can remember cruisin’ to back … Continue reading 25 of the Best Songs of Summer<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[3593,2312,4647,1709,3586,2958],"class_list":["post-5795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-best","tag-cruise","tag-music","tag-songs","tag-summer","tag-top"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pEnSo-1vt","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5795"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11214,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5795\/revisions\/11214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}