Summer Songs, Part Seven: When Summer Ends

Any way you look at it, summer has been over for weeks now:  I am already half-way through the autumn semester; the weather has turned substantially cooler; five jack-o’-lanterns sit glowing in the front yard; and department stores have already set their sights on Christmas.  It is essential, then, that we officially close the book on the Summer Songs series for 2010.  I began in June with a clip of “Racing in the Street”–with its homage to Stevenson and Gaye’s “Dancing in the Street”–and its declaration that “summer’s here and the time is right…”.  Summer isn’t just the right time for dancing or racing; it’s the right time for everything.  And it’s gone.

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