American Songwriter

Remember When: Willie Nelson Covered Frank Sinatra’s “Summer Wind”

Is there anything Willie Nelson can’t do? He has covered songs from a variety of genres including rock, folk, and of course, country. In 2018, he took on a big band classic: Frank Sinatra’s “Summer ...
CNN

The song of the summer is a bummer

Gone are the sweaty days when “Not Like Us” lit up parties nationwide, uniting Drake dissers everywhere. There are manchildren and daisies and animated anthems from “KPop Demon Hunters,” but nothing ...
CNN

How the ‘song of the summer’ became a cultural phenomenon

As the temperature outside heats up, so does the chatter around the “song of the summer” — the unofficial name for the track that becomes inescapable between Memorial Day and Labor Day. The song of ...
NPR

Do we have a song of the summer this year?

Each week, we use this column to break down major takeaways from the latest Billboard albums and singles charts. But it seems like a good week to break down a larger question about the charts circa ...
American Songwriter

It Came From the British Invasion: “A Summer Song,” the Warm-Weather Classic from Chad & Jeremy

They didn’t exactly rock out like many of the fellow acts who joined them in the British Invasion. That just meant that Chad & Jeremy filled a somewhat unique niche in the 1960s music scene, playing ...