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Weather – hot. Summer: hot. City: hot.
Three entertaining songs about the heat, city, and summer. It’s like a tradition for me to ply ’em in my head as the city heat addresses my body.
Billy Idol, “Hot in the City“, 1982.
“Hot Child in the City“, Nick Gilder, 1978.
And “Summer in the City” ,1966, The Lovin’ Spoonful.
Enjoy the heat. That is all.
I walked two miles this morning prior to my writing session. As I did, I thought, man, it already feels hot. Sweat was soaking my shirt, hat, and shorts. I knew from checking the weather that it had already been in the seventies but that the heat index was about six degrees hotter.
It felt it. It fortunately didn’t feel like the one hundred nine degrees reported in Denver, thank the fates. As expected for me, I began streaming songs about heat, and ended up with this Billy Idol gem from 1982, “Hot in the City”.
Michael Seidel, writer 