Punk Rock Colleague & Historian and Professional Consultant
Hudley Flipside
“The philosophers teach everything except the Hermetic vessel, because that is divine and is hidden from the Gentiles by the lords of wisdom: and they who know it not, know not the true method, because of their ignorance of the vessel Hermes.
~ Pg. 240. AION C.G. Jung
“Summertime Blues” is a song co-written and recorded by American rock artist Eddie Cochran. It was written by Cochran and his manager Jerry Capehart. Originally a single B-side, it was released in August 1958.
“See You in September” is a song written by Sid Wayne and Sherman Edwards. It was first recorded by the Pittsburgh vocal group the Tempos. This first version peaked at No. 23 in the USA in the summer of 1959.
“In the Summertime” is the debut single by British rock band Mungo Jerry, released in 1970.
I must admit summertime used to be so cool. Total freedom as kids for so many summers. Barefoot and hanging with friends or going on vacation to Mammoth Mountains.
Then as I got older cruising up and down Van Nuys Blvd., any one of these three songs did come on the car radio. Going to the local mall was exciting because we rode our bikes there. The seventies with bikini tops and sunburns.
Then the years of getting a job and working… then finding the Punk scene … years of having children of my own and watching their cycle of summertime.
Now it is the heat, the fires and smoky air. I don’t enjoy summertime like I once did.
Yet the songs still bring back the good memories.
1958 sixty six years ago. Liberty Records INC. Hollywood Calif. U.S.A.
