Talk:Summer in the City (song)

Appearance in media and other versions
Family Ties episode Keaton and Son

(Suffering from writer's block and thinking that is he writing something original) while working on the documentary, Steven comes up with "Hot Town. Summer in the City (back of my neck getting dirty and gritty)". Before realising he is merely typing out the lyrics to the well known song.

www.imdb.com/title/tt0577336/soundtrack/ www.familyties.fandom.com/wiki/Keaton_and_Son

IP comment
The Quiny Jones version perhaps most famously sampled by The Pharcyde on Passing Me By. 202.126.106.54 01:38, 8 February 2007 (UTC)

converse commercial
is this the same one used in the converse century commercial? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.28.58.242 (talk) 18:54, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

New York City Tourism TV Commerical from 1970s
Wasn't a version of this song featured in a New York City, "Summer in the City" TV ad from the late 1970s? I have memories of the TV ad but can't find it online. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.96.240.174 (talk) 12:15, 3 August 2008 (UTC)

IP comment
There is a song Summer In The City by the Manhattans on CBS records in UK. Relesaed in 1974. It is NOT a cover.

Use of a Hohner Pianet and Vox Continental
It says that the electric piano is a Hohner Pianet and the organ is a Vox Continental and I see this needs to be cited. The song's signature keyboard part sounds like a Pianet and the Vox Continental appears in the promotional video. The use of a Hohner Pianet should be apparent to any keyboardist who listens to the recording. I don't play any instruments myself but I know what a Pianet sounds like after having heard so many Beatles songs with this instrument (You Like Me Too Much, Tell Me What You See, The Night Before, Think for Yourself, Getting Better, I Am the Walrus and Revolution) and it sounds the same in this song as it does in the Beatles songs with this instrument. I don't see why that statement would have to be cited. I would like for someone else to explain why that claim needs to be cited.--Kevjgav (talk) 05:43, 18 April 2015 (UTC)

Music concréte
This is a pop song that utilizes the techniqes of Music concrete, not an example of the genre. Tapered (talk) 06:21, 24 July 2015 (UTC)

Requested move 2 March 2022

 * The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 

The result of the move request was: moved per request. Favonian (talk) 19:06, 8 March 2022 (UTC)

Summer in the City (The Lovin' Spoonful song) → Summer in the City (song) – The only article for a song with this title, per WP:SONGDAB.&#32;Tree Critter (talk) 19:14, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
 * This is a contested technical request (permalink). GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 04:05, 2 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Given recent RM activity/moves/ Talk page comments by other editors, including mess associated with technical request at RM Talk:Kiss_and_Make_Up_(Dua_Lipa_and_Blackpink_song) better if this also goes to RM. Probably okay, but not the time for this editor to further bypass the RM mechanism. In ictu oculi (talk) 21:56, 1 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Concur with proposed change, if only because of the significant international stature of the song. - JGabbard (talk) 04:32, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

The discussion above is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
 * Support Proper disambiguation for the subject according to WP:SONGDAB--Yaksar (let's chat) 06:07, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Support unless others are notable.  Crouch, Swale  ( talk ) 07:40, 2 March 2022 (UTC)
 * Support: while researching for that expansion of this article, I did not run across a notable song with the same title.  Tkbrett  (✉) 12:03, 2 March 2022 (UTC)

B-sides
Hello: It's not unusual for singles released in various countries to have different B-sides. According to what is shown in the discogs links, Kama Sutra used "Butchie's Tune" in the U.S., Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. "Fishin' Blues" was used as the B-side in Germany (the Swiss and German singles appear the same), Canada, Norway, "Scandinavia" (can't quite see the label fine print), Netherlands, and Greece. In France, "Jug Band Music" was used and in the UK, "Bald Headed Lena".

To list all of the B-sides in the infobox would overload it. Except for the chart tables, other countries' releases aren't discussed. For purposes of Template:Infobox song, the U.S. (Spoonful's home country) should be sufficient. Perhaps "Some pressings of the single were backed with..." could be clarified with something like "In the U.S. and several other countries, "Butchie's Tune" was used as the B-side. In other countries, "Fishin' Blues" or another song was used." If readers are interested, they can follow the discogs links for the details.

—Ojorojo (talk) 15:03, 13 March 2022 (UTC)


 * Thanks, didn't notice that "Fishin' Blues" wasn't used in the US as well. The sources I have only list these two B-sides, so I've tweaked your suggest to only mention them.  Tkbrett  (✉) 16:57, 13 March 2022 (UTC)