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Summer of '69

July 05, 2023

For the Pink Floyd song, see Summer '68.

"Summer of '69" is a song recorded by the Canadian singer Bryan Adams from his fourth album, Reckless. It is an up-tempo rock song about a dilemma between settling down or trying to become a rock star. The track was written by Adams and his longtime songwriting collaborator Jim Vallance. "Summer of '69" was produced by Adams and Bob Clearmountain. "Summer of '69" was released in June 1985 under A&M Records as the fourth single from Reckless.[1] According to later claims by Adams, the title is a reference to the sex position, not the year, but Vallance disputes this.[3]

"Summer of '69"
Single by Bryan Adams
from the album Reckless
B-side
  • "Kids Wanna Rock"
  • "The Best Was Yet to Come"
ReleasedJune 17, 1985
Recorded1984
Genre
Length3:36
LabelA&M
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
Bryan Adams singles chronology
"Heaven"
(1985) 		"Summer of '69"
(1985) 		"One Night Love Affair"
(1985)
Audio sample
"Summer of '69"

The song was released with two B-side tracks: "Kids Wanna Rock" and "The Best Was Yet to Come", which had previously appeared on the albums Reckless and Cuts Like a Knife respectively. "Summer of '69" received favourable reviews from music critics. The music video for the song, which was filmed by Steve Barron, features Adams and his backing band in a variety of settings, including running from the police. The single had a strong effect on music charts internationally; in the UK it was acclaimed as one of Adams’s best, with its highest peaks being number four in the Netherlands and number five in the United States. Amongst songs recorded by Canadian artists, it is the most streamed and most digitally purchased song within Canada amongst songs originally released before the start of the digital download era (approximately 2005).[4] It is also the most played song on Canadian radio amongst songs by Canadian artists originally released before 1990.[5]

Conception and themes

After a tour supporting his album Cuts Like a Knife, Adams immediately started the recording sessions for the new album, Reckless. "Summer of '69" was finished on January 25, 1984,[6] co-written with Jim Vallance in his basement studio. The song went through a number of changes because neither Adams nor Vallance was convinced it was a strong enough song to be featured on the album. In their first draft, the lyric "summer of '69" appeared only once. At that time the two were planning to title it "Best Days of My Life" instead. While the phrase "Best Days of My Life" appeared seven times in the first draft, on the final draft it had been replaced by "Summer of '69" and appeared only two times throughout the song.[7]

When writing the lyrics "Jimmy quit, Jody got married", Vallance suggested using "Woody quit and Gordy got married", referring to members of his high school band, but Adams liked his version better. Adams mentioned once in an interview that "Jimmy" was one of his early drummers. "Jody" is a reference to Adams' sound manager, Jody Perpick, who got married during the album's recording session.

On the song's first demo, it started with a 12-string riff, just like the breakdown section in the middle of the song, but this was replaced with a chunky 6-string intro on the second demo. The song was recorded three to four times, in different ways, with both Adams and Vallance still not convinced that it was finished.[7]

"Summer of '69" is written in the key of D major.[8]

When Adams appeared on The Early Show in 2008, he was asked about "Summer of '69" and its lyrical meaning. Adams said the song was not about the summer of 1969 but about having sex in the summertime; "69" being a reference to the sexual position 69.[9] Vallance, however, has gone for the more conventional interpretation of the title being a reference to a year. He notes Jackson Browne's "Running on Empty", which contains references to 1965 and 1969, as his own influence, and recalls Adams citing the film Summer of '42 as his.[7] However, Vallance stated on the Song Facts message board that "When we recorded the demo in my basement, towards the end of the song Bryan sang a little naughty bit: 'me and my baby in a ’69'. We had a laugh about it at the time, and Bryan decided to keep it when he did the final recording a month or two later."[10]

That song is 35 years old now so it's had that many years to incubate. A lot of songs, like that one, hit big in America but really not anywhere else. It didn't chart anywhere in Europe until at least 10 years after it was released. [...] I think songs can have a life of their own regardless of the promotion.

Critical reception

Cash Box said of the single that it "recalls the sound and arrangement of Springsteen with Adams’ own streamlined sheen."[11]

In its 2005 list "The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born", Blender ranked the song 70th and commented that the song "made people who hadn't yet had either a first love or a first band nostalgic for the experience".[12]

"Summer of '69" has found itself in several "best of" lists compiled by various music publications and critics, including the following:[13]

Publication Country Accolade Year Rank
Blender United States "The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born" 2005 70[12]
Chartattack Canada "The 100 Best Canadian Singles of All Time" 1996 24
Chartattack Canada "The 50 Best Canadian Singles of All Time" 2000 4
Chuck Eddy United States "The 100 Best Singles of the 80s" 1990 50
Dave Marsh United States "The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made" 1989 635

Chart performance

 
Adams during his 2009 concert in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada

Upon the release of the album Reckless in November 1984, "Summer of '69" received some airplay on album-oriented rock radio stations but was mostly overshadowed by the tracks "Run to You" and "It's Only Love", only managing to reach number 40 on Billboard's Top Rock Tracks chart. After it was released as a single in June 1985, "Summer of '69" climbed to number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and helped push Reckless to the number one position on the Billboard 200 album chart in August 1985.[note 1] Like the previous single released from Reckless, "Heaven", "Summer of '69" was a commercial success worldwide. On the UK Singles Chart, "Summer of '69" debuted at number fifty-nine, and managed to climb up the chart, and two weeks later reached its peak position of 42, on August 24, 1985. The single remained on the country's chart for four consecutive weeks from August to September 1985, before falling out of the top 100.[14] The track debuted at number twenty-two on September 22, and peaked at number seven in the fifth week on the New Zealand Singles Chart. The song debuted at 95 on the Canadian RPM Singles Chart on June 29, 1985,[15] jumping to fifty in its second week[16] and peaking at eleven on September 14, 1985, after spending seven weeks on the chart.[17]

The song debuted at its peak position, number 9, on August 10, on the Norwegian Singles Chart and stayed there for another four weeks before falling off the charts. "Summer of '69" charted on the Swedish Singles Chart for five consecutive weeks. Having debuted at number twenty on December 13, and peaked at number thirteen two weeks later. The single spent another three weeks on the chart before falling off. The track peaked at number seventeen on the Austrian Singles Chart, and remained on the country's chart for five weeks. The single's most commercially successful charting territory was the Netherlands, where it peaked at number 4 on September 22, 1990. The single's least successful chart territory was Germany. Having peaked on the country's singles chart at number sixty-two, the single spent the next five weeks fluctuating down the chart.

In 1985 the song won the BMI (Broadcast Music Inc.) Citation of Achievement for US radio airplay, the following year 1986 – Procan Award (Performing Rights Organization of Canada) for Canadian radio airplay and in 2000 it won a Socan Classics Award for more than 100,000 Canadian radio performances.[7] In a poll conducted by Decima Research in 2006, "Summer of '69" was voted the best driving song among Canadians who sing in their cars. The song topped the survey with both sexes, and with French and English-speaking Canadians.[18] In 2010, the song was voted the "hottest summer song" in Germany.[19] In another poll, this time by Canadian magazine Chart, "Summer of '69" was voted the fourth best song of all time in 2000;[20] four years earlier it had been voted the twenty-fourth best song of all time.[21] The song was ranked No. 17 on CBC Radio's 50 Tracks: The Canadian Version.[22] In 2008, the song was voted the 87th best-song of all time by radio listeners in Norway, becoming the second highest Adams song ranked, the highest being "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" from 1991.[23] It was voted the fourth best song ever on Radio 2, a Belgian radio station, in 2008.[24]

"Summer of '69" remains popular to this day in many countries around the world.[25] Adams sang "Summer of '69" during the 2011 Cricket World Cup opening ceremony in Bangladesh.[26] More recently Adams performed a duet version of "Summer of '69" with Taylor Swift during her Reputation Tour in Toronto, Canada.[27]

As of 2017, "Summer of '69" was, at number 115, the only song from 1995 or earlier among the 150 most streamed songs of all time in Canada by Canadian artists.[28] As of 2017, it was the 41st highest selling digital song of all time by a Canadian artist in Canada and the highest selling such song from before 2005.[29] Between 1996 and 2017, it was the 53rd most played song by a Canadian artist on Canadian radio stations of all format types, the only song before 1990 in the top 150 most played songs.[5]

In May 2021 the Official Charts Company included it in the list of huge selling summer songs in the UK.[30]

Music video

The music video, released in 1985, was directed by Irish director Steve Barron.[31] In 1985 the music video was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award in the category for Best Male Video. While the song did not win the award, it was one of the four nominated songs from Adams' fourth studio album Reckless.[32] The video includes appearances by Lysette Anthony and Garwin Sanford.

Track listing and formats

  • 7" single
  1. "Summer of '69" - 3:36
  2. "The Best Was Yet to Come" - 2:52

Personnel

Charts

Certifications and sales

Region Certification Certified units/sales
Australia (ARIA)[62] 8× Platinum 560,000‡
Denmark (IFPI Danmark)[63] 2× Platinum 180,000‡
Germany (BVMI)[64] 3× Gold 750,000‡
Italy (FIMI)[65] Gold 25,000‡
United Kingdom (BPI)[66] 3× Platinum 1,800,000‡
United States — 1,606,647[67]

‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone.

Notes

  1. ^ The Billboard Top Rock Tracks chart did not include re-currents so the song's popularity on album-oriented rock radio in mid-1985 is not reflected on that chart.

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For the Pink Floyd song see Summer 68 Summer of 69 is a song recorded by the Canadian singer Bryan Adams from his fourth album Reckless It is an up tempo rock song about a dilemma between settling down or trying to become a rock star The track was written by Adams and his longtime songwriting collaborator Jim Vallance Summer of 69 was produced by Adams and Bob Clearmountain Summer of 69 was released in June 1985 under A amp M Records as the fourth single from Reckless 1 According to later claims by Adams the title is a reference to the sex position not the year but Vallance disputes this 3 Summer of 69 Single by Bryan Adamsfrom the album RecklessB side Kids Wanna Rock The Best Was Yet to Come ReleasedJune 17 1985Recorded1984GenreRock 1 pop rock 2 Length3 36LabelA amp MSongwriter s Bryan AdamsJim VallanceProducer s Bob ClearmountainAdamsBryan Adams singles chronology Heaven 1985 Summer of 69 1985 One Night Love Affair 1985 Audio sample source source track Summer of 69 filehelpThe song was released with two B side tracks Kids Wanna Rock and The Best Was Yet to Come which had previously appeared on the albums Reckless and Cuts Like a Knife respectively Summer of 69 received favourable reviews from music critics The music video for the song which was filmed by Steve Barron features Adams and his backing band in a variety of settings including running from the police The single had a strong effect on music charts internationally in the UK it was acclaimed as one of Adams s best with its highest peaks being number four in the Netherlands and number five in the United States Amongst songs recorded by Canadian artists it is the most streamed and most digitally purchased song within Canada amongst songs originally released before the start of the digital download era approximately 2005 4 It is also the most played song on Canadian radio amongst songs by Canadian artists originally released before 1990 5 Contents 1 Conception and themes 2 Critical reception 3 Chart performance 4 Music video 5 Track listing and formats 6 Personnel 7 Charts 7 1 Weekly charts 7 2 Year end charts 7 3 Decade end charts 8 Certifications and sales 9 Notes 10 ReferencesConception and themes EditAfter a tour supporting his album Cuts Like a Knife Adams immediately started the recording sessions for the new album Reckless Summer of 69 was finished on January 25 1984 6 co written with Jim Vallance in his basement studio The song went through a number of changes because neither Adams nor Vallance was convinced it was a strong enough song to be featured on the album In their first draft the lyric summer of 69 appeared only once At that time the two were planning to title it Best Days of My Life instead While the phrase Best Days of My Life appeared seven times in the first draft on the final draft it had been replaced by Summer of 69 and appeared only two times throughout the song 7 When writing the lyrics Jimmy quit Jody got married Vallance suggested using Woody quit and Gordy got married referring to members of his high school band but Adams liked his version better Adams mentioned once in an interview that Jimmy was one of his early drummers Jody is a reference to Adams sound manager Jody Perpick who got married during the album s recording session On the song s first demo it started with a 12 string riff just like the breakdown section in the middle of the song but this was replaced with a chunky 6 string intro on the second demo The song was recorded three to four times in different ways with both Adams and Vallance still not convinced that it was finished 7 Summer of 69 is written in the key of D major 8 When Adams appeared on The Early Show in 2008 he was asked about Summer of 69 and its lyrical meaning Adams said the song was not about the summer of 1969 but about having sex in the summertime 69 being a reference to the sexual position 69 9 Vallance however has gone for the more conventional interpretation of the title being a reference to a year He notes Jackson Browne s Running on Empty which contains references to 1965 and 1969 as his own influence and recalls Adams citing the film Summer of 42 as his 7 However Vallance stated on the Song Facts message board that When we recorded the demo in my basement towards the end of the song Bryan sang a little naughty bit me and my baby in a 69 We had a laugh about it at the time and Bryan decided to keep it when he did the final recording a month or two later 10 That song is 35 years old now so it s had that many years to incubate A lot of songs like that one hit big in America but really not anywhere else It didn t chart anywhere in Europe until at least 10 years after it was released I think songs can have a life of their own regardless of the promotion Critical reception EditCash Box said of the single that it recalls the sound and arrangement of Springsteen with Adams own streamlined sheen 11 In its 2005 list The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born Blender ranked the song 70th and commented that the song made people who hadn t yet had either a first love or a first band nostalgic for the experience 12 Summer of 69 has found itself in several best of lists compiled by various music publications and critics including the following 13 Publication Country Accolade Year RankBlender United States The 500 Greatest Songs Since You Were Born 2005 70 12 Chartattack Canada The 100 Best Canadian Singles of All Time 1996 24Chartattack Canada The 50 Best Canadian Singles of All Time 2000 4Chuck Eddy United States The 100 Best Singles of the 80s 1990 50Dave Marsh United States The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made 1989 635Chart performance Edit Adams during his 2009 concert in Peterborough Ontario Canada Upon the release of the album Reckless in November 1984 Summer of 69 received some airplay on album oriented rock radio stations but was mostly overshadowed by the tracks Run to You and It s Only Love only managing to reach number 40 on Billboard s Top Rock Tracks chart After it was released as a single in June 1985 Summer of 69 climbed to number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and helped push Reckless to the number one position on the Billboard 200 album chart in August 1985 note 1 Like the previous single released from Reckless Heaven Summer of 69 was a commercial success worldwide On the UK Singles Chart Summer of 69 debuted at number fifty nine and managed to climb up the chart and two weeks later reached its peak position of 42 on August 24 1985 The single remained on the country s chart for four consecutive weeks from August to September 1985 before falling out of the top 100 14 The track debuted at number twenty two on September 22 and peaked at number seven in the fifth week on the New Zealand Singles Chart The song debuted at 95 on the Canadian RPM Singles Chart on June 29 1985 15 jumping to fifty in its second week 16 and peaking at eleven on September 14 1985 after spending seven weeks on the chart 17 The song debuted at its peak position number 9 on August 10 on the Norwegian Singles Chart and stayed there for another four weeks before falling off the charts Summer of 69 charted on the Swedish Singles Chart for five consecutive weeks Having debuted at number twenty on December 13 and peaked at number thirteen two weeks later The single spent another three weeks on the chart before falling off The track peaked at number seventeen on the Austrian Singles Chart and remained on the country s chart for five weeks The single s most commercially successful charting territory was the Netherlands where it peaked at number 4 on September 22 1990 The single s least successful chart territory was Germany Having peaked on the country s singles chart at number sixty two the single spent the next five weeks fluctuating down the chart In 1985 the song won the BMI Broadcast Music Inc Citation of Achievement for US radio airplay the following year 1986 Procan Award Performing Rights Organization of Canada for Canadian radio airplay and in 2000 it won a Socan Classics Award for more than 100 000 Canadian radio performances 7 In a poll conducted by Decima Research in 2006 Summer of 69 was voted the best driving song among Canadians who sing in their cars The song topped the survey with both sexes and with French and English speaking Canadians 18 In 2010 the song was voted the hottest summer song in Germany 19 In another poll this time by Canadian magazine Chart Summer of 69 was voted the fourth best song of all time in 2000 20 four years earlier it had been voted the twenty fourth best song of all time 21 The song was ranked No 17 on CBC Radio s 50 Tracks The Canadian Version 22 In 2008 the song was voted the 87th best song of all time by radio listeners in Norway becoming the second highest Adams song ranked the highest being Everything I Do I Do It for You from 1991 23 It was voted the fourth best song ever on Radio 2 a Belgian radio station in 2008 24 Summer of 69 remains popular to this day in many countries around the world 25 Adams sang Summer of 69 during the 2011 Cricket World Cup opening ceremony in Bangladesh 26 More recently Adams performed a duet version of Summer of 69 with Taylor Swift during her Reputation Tour in Toronto Canada 27 As of 2017 Summer of 69 was at number 115 the only song from 1995 or earlier among the 150 most streamed songs of all time in Canada by Canadian artists 28 As of 2017 it was the 41st highest selling digital song of all time by a Canadian artist in Canada and the highest selling such song from before 2005 29 Between 1996 and 2017 it was the 53rd most played song by a Canadian artist on Canadian radio stations of all format types the only song before 1990 in the top 150 most played songs 5 In May 2021 the Official Charts Company included it in the list of huge selling summer songs in the UK 30 Music video EditThe music video released in 1985 was directed by Irish director Steve Barron 31 In 1985 the music video was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award in the category for Best Male Video While the song did not win the award it was one of the four nominated songs from Adams fourth studio album Reckless 32 The video includes appearances by Lysette Anthony and Garwin Sanford Track listing and formats Edit7 single Summer of 69 3 36 The Best Was Yet to Come 2 52Personnel EditBryan Adams vocals and rhythm guitar Keith Scott lead guitar Tommy Mandel synthesizer and organ Dave Taylor bass Pat Steward drums Jim Vallance tambourineCharts EditWeekly charts Edit Chart 1985 PeakpositionAustralia Kent Music Report 33 14Austria O3 Austria Top 40 34 17Belgium VRT Top 30 Flanders 35 7Canada RPM 17 11Germany Official German Charts 36 62Ireland IRMA 37 18New Zealand Recorded Music NZ 38 7Norway VG lista 39 9Sweden Sverigetopplistan 40 13UK Singles OCC 14 42US Billboard Hot 100 41 5US Mainstream Rock Billboard 42 40Chart 1990 PeakpositionBelgium Ultratop 50 Flanders 43 8Europe Eurochart Hot 100 44 98Netherlands Dutch Top 40 45 5Netherlands Single Top 100 46 4Chart 2006 PeakpositionUK Singles OCC 47 54Chart 2007 PeakpositionUK Singles OCC 47 140Chart 2008 PeakpositionUK Singles OCC 47 88Chart 2021 2022 PeakpositionCanada Digital Song Sales Billboard 48 5Finland Airplay Radiosoittolista 49 46US Digital Song Sales Billboard 50 9US Hot Rock amp Alternative Songs Billboard 51 11 Year end charts Edit Chart 1985 PositionAustralia Kent Music Report 52 53 78Canadian RPM Singles Chart 54 99New Zealand Recorded Music NZ 55 48US Cash Box Top 100 56 64US Billboard Hot 100 57 74Chart 1990 PositionBelgium Ultratop Flanders 58 59Netherlands Dutch Top 40 59 36Netherlands Single Top 100 60 37Decade end charts Edit Chart 1980 1989 PositionCanada Canadian Artists Digital Songs 61 1Certifications and sales EditRegion Certification Certified units salesAustralia ARIA 62 8 Platinum 560 000 Denmark IFPI Danmark 63 2 Platinum 180 000 Germany BVMI 64 3 Gold 750 000 Italy FIMI 65 Gold 25 000 United Kingdom BPI 66 3 Platinum 1 800 000 United States 1 606 647 67 Sales streaming figures based on certification alone Notes Edit The Billboard Top Rock Tracks chart did not include re currents so the song s popularity on album oriented rock radio in mid 1985 is not reflected on that chart References Edit a b Steve Sullivan 2017 Encyclopedia of Great Popular Song Recordings Vol 3 Rowman amp Littlefield p 580 ISBN 9781442254497 Andrew Jett 10 Best Pop Rock Songs Mademan Archived from the original on November 11 2018 Retrieved November 5 2018 Is Bryan Adams Summer of 69 About What You Think It Is November 5 2014 Nielsen and Billboard s Canada 150 Charts July 2017 a b Top 150 Canadian Airplay Songs All Formats July 2017 Album notes forAnthologyby Dave Marsh CD booklet A amp M Records A amp M 5613 August 11 2010 a b c d Summer of 69 Jimvallance com Archived from the original on September 26 2010 Retrieved August 11 2010 Bryan Adams Jim Vallance Bryan Adams October 1 2010 Summer of 69 Musicnotes com Retrieved June 3 2021 Bryan Adams Hit Was About Sex Not 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