Great choices, particularly "Take It Easy", and "Little Red Corvette"

I'd also like to add:

Take It To The Limit by The Eagles

Dreams by Fleetwood Mac

Sweet Dreams by Eurythmics

You know, I could probably make a disc of great summer songs just from The Eagles and Fleetwood Mac. Such great groups!

WHAT?!? Yoiu like Madonna...you're not allowed to like music that I like!!!! :p

There's a lot of music that I am sure we both enjoy, you just don't know it, because you always dismiss me because I like Madonna. I'm actually a music lover, in general (not a big country fan (some of it I like), and absolutely can't tolerate rap). Madonna isn't my only cup of tea. She's one of my favorite, but, not my only. :)

Soak Up The Sun - Sheryl Crow
Summer in The City - The Lovin' Spoonful
Ice Cream Man - Van Halen
Take A Ride - Coolio
Girls of Summer - Aerosmith

"Summertime" by The Sundays

Scool's Out - Alice Cooper

Totally '80's Version:

Cruel Summer - Bananarama
The Boys of Summer - Don Henley
The Heat Is On - Glenn Frey
Theme from Miami Vice - Jan Hammer
Playing with the Boys - Kenny Loggins
Mighty Wings - Cheap Trick
When I Hear Music - Debbie Deb
Genius of Love - Tom Tom Club
Double Dutch Bus - Frankie Smith
SledgeHammer - Peter Gabriel
California Girls - David Lee Roth
Masterblaster (Jammin') - Stevie Wonder
Vacation - The Go Go's

Major Label Debut (Fast) and Pacific Theme by Broken Social Scene are really good songs to listen to at any time, but especially during summer.

The Who's version of Summertime Blues

Andain - Summer Calling

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No mention of Don Henley's "Boys of Summer"?

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I like the Atari's version better

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Same....great cover.

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"Centerfield" by John Fogerty comes to mind. I could do (and in the past, have done) an entire summer country mix, but I'll save myself the typing since I doubt anyone else would care about those songs.

Also, the theme from Jaws, which I would throw on at the end of the mix, sort like a bonus track. It always gets played at a public pool somewhere over the summer and has become entrenched in my mind during the warm months whenever I'm around water.

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a few off the top of my head
drivers seat - sniff n' the tears
lakeshore drive - Aliotta-Haynes-Jeremiah
sister golden hair - america
guitar man - bread
summertime - sublime
sweet talkin woman -elo
vacation - the go go's
have you ever seen the rain - ccr

this is a great thread. i just built a deck and i think i spent more time looking for songs to play saturday than i did sitting back with some beer. im going to have to make a playlist.

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Summer Wind - Frank Sinatra

Barometer Soup - Jimmy Buffett

It's 5 O'Clock Somewhere - Alan Jackson

All I Wanna Do - Sheryl Crow

One Love - Robert Nesta Marley

Changes In Latitudes - Jimmy Buffett

Santa Monica - Everclear

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Don't know why this song reminds me of summer. Maybe I first heard it in the summer?

One Thing by INXS