🎵 Monthly Song Challenge 🎵

[morelikeasong]

Day 20: A song from the 60s

When I was a kid, I used to stand on my basement bulkhead and pretend to surf while singing this song

The Beach Boys - Surfin’ USA

Day 21: A song from the 70s

Bill Withers - Lovely Day

+1 sunlight

 

[Awaywego]

Day 21: A song from the 70's

Ready for Love - Bad Company (1974)

Ohh great choice

 

[PrettyLilPussy19]

Day 21: A song from the 70s

I'll join the Grease bandwagon!

"Look at Me"

 

[cocokittysurprise]

Ohh great choice

Bad Company is one of my faves from that era.

 

[The_Quiet_Man]

Day 22: A song from the 80's (summer)

"Cruel Summer" (1983) -- Bananarama

 

[Actingup]

Day 22: A song from the 80's (summer)

Hoodoo Guru's 1983 'Tojo' referenced two key summer events in Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia. The first was the bombing of Darwin by 188 Japanese aircraft on 19 February 1942, following the Pearl Harbor raids and resulting in great loss of life. Over 100 further raids followed, but despite that, the feared land invasion didn't happen despite Japan's occupation of Indonesia just to the north. The second event was the destruction of Darwin on 24/25 December 1974 by Tropical Cyclone Tracy (which I've referenced in one of my stories ('Remembering The Storm')). In the song, the singer's girlfriend Tracy is in a bad and goes whistling off to wreak destruction...

Tracy, Tracy was angry
A bad mood, a bad mood
I told her that it's an ill wind
Blows no good, blows no good
Then she told me
"Tojo never made it
Tojo never made it to Darwin"

 

[CarlyAnn]

Day 22: A song from the 80's

 

[oldasspussy]

Day 22: A song from the 80's

 

[lingus60]

Day 22: A song from the 80's

Style Council: Long Hot Summer

 

[Wonderer67]

Day 22: A song from the 80's (Summer)

+2 (sun, July)
Riot 73736738926x
Helen had a great voice. I’ve heard they reformed for Rebellion festival this year.

The Viloators - Summer of ‘81

 

[ScarletDaisy]

Day 22: A song from the 80's (Summer)

I want to be where the sun warms the sky... +1

 

[CuriousCat89]

Day 22: A song from the 80's

I can’t do the ‘summer’ theme. Ur it was hard to find an 80s cover!

But I did it!

 

[Shady_nz]

Day 22: A song from the 80's

Peking Man - Room That Echoes
(RIP Margaret Urlich)
A quintessential Kiwi summer song from the 80s is "Room That Echoes" by Peking Man, released in 1985. It evokes memories of hot summers, dying grass, and the Caroline Bay Carnival in Timaru.It was a regular on the radio during that time, particularly in Timaru, making it a familiar summer soundtrack for many.

 

[Whiskeyjack]

Day 22: A song from the 80s (summer)
It's got Sunshine! Sand! Summer! +3 points for me!

"Club Tropicana" - Wham!

 

[Awaywego]

Day 22: A song from the 80's
(Summer)

So many, such a time but this for fun

Don Henley, "The Heat is On"
From Beverly Hills Cop

 

[KarenB59]

Day 22- A song from the 80s.

 

[luvzmature]

Day 22: A song from the 80's -Summer

Fun fact I'm sure you already know; when Kokomo hit #1 on the charts in November 1988 it was the longest span ever between #1 hits. The last one before that... Good Vibrations in December 1966
The Beach Boys-Kokomo
+1 Sand

 

[kenbrack]

Day 22:A song from the 80s

Summer Nights

Bonus points-summer, hot

 

[stressedsubject]

Day 22: A song from the 80s (summer)

"Those summer nights are calling
Stone in love"

+1 Point

 

[curious_slut]

Day 22: A song from the 80s

I was going to do a Depeche Mode deep cut but this is still up for grabs and I'm grabbing it!

Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine
Another point for sunshine

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Don’t worry… I’ll spank myself

 

[luvzmature]

Day 22: A song from the 80s

I was going to do a Depeche Mode deep cut but this is still up for grabs and I'm grabbing it!

Katrina & The Waves - Walking On Sunshine
Another point for sunshine

I almost picked this one. Huge hit back in the 80's

 

[cocokittysurprise]

Day 22: A song from the 80's

New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle (1986)

 

[QuietCanadian]

Day 22: Summer

Not popular until the 90s but from their debut album in 1983.

 

[ScarletDaisy]

Day 22: Summer

Not popular until the 90s but from their debut album in 1983.

And.... now I need to listen to this album!