{"id":1192,"date":"2010-07-01T20:54:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-01T20:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/?p=1192"},"modified":"2010-07-02T00:12:15","modified_gmt":"2010-07-02T00:12:15","slug":"blue-skies-and-summertime-girls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/2010-07\/blue-skies-and-summertime-girls\/","title":{"rendered":"Blue Skies and Summertime Girls"},"content":{"rendered":"

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It was in the fall of 1915 that I decided not to use any color<\/em><\/p>\n

until I couldn’t get along without it and I believe
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it was June until I needed blue.<\/em><\/p>\n

–GEORGIA O’KEEFE<\/p>\n

Amen, Georgia.\u00a0 She must have been living in Santa Barbara at the time.<\/p>\n

We desperately needed blue in June, but deliverance was not had until July.\u00a0 July 1st to be exact.\u00a0 Money and blue skies change everything.\u00a0 I think that’s how that great song went (one-hit wonder band, The Brains, version please, not that Lauper thingy).<\/p>\n

To match the change in mood brought by the big ole sun, we give you some sounds of summer.\u00a0 Some by girls and another by Girls (the boy band).<\/p>\n

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First up are The Mynabirds and their song Numbers Don’t Lie. <\/em>The song is a great throwback to the sounds of the Sixties and just says “summer.”\u00a0 According to Mynabirds’ leader, Laura Burhenn, she had long aspired to have a band that sounded like Neil Young playing Motown. After recording some songs, she named her new group The Mynabirds.\u00a0 Only later did she discover that Neil Young had made music with Rick James in 1960s Motown in the 60\u2032s R&B group, The Mynah Birds.<\/p>\n

Listen in to some piano, soul, a bit of grit, and vocals that recall Dusty Springfield, Bobbie Gentry and other 60s icons.<\/p>\n

The Mynabirds–Numbers Don’t Lie<\/em><\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Numbers-Dont-Lie.mp3|titles=Numbers Don’t Lie]\n

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In a similar, throwback vein comes the self-avowed \u201cblissed-out buzz saw\u201d pop of the Dum Dum Girls in their song Jail La La, <\/em>their first single for\u00a0 Sub Pop.\u00a0 With their ’60s-inflected songs and melodies, the Dum Dum Girls seem destined for sugary success.\u00a0 Check ’em out.<\/p>\n

Dum Dum Girls–Jail La La<\/em><\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/10-Jail-La-La.mp3|titles=10 Jail La La]\n

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Moving on to the boys, we give you Girls from San Francisco.\u00a0\u00a0 Listen to their driving, shimmering song, Summertime<\/em>, off their phenomenal record “Album” (creative) released in the fall of last year.\u00a0 It’s the Wall of Fuzz, and pop genius with an edge.\u00a0 We saw this band at Muddy Waters late last year, and they delivered the goods.\u00a0 Highly recommended.<\/p>\n

Girls–Summertime<\/em><\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/08-Summertime.mp3|titles=08 Summertime]\n

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Finally, listen in to LA’s Active Child and its sparkling, 80s-esque pop in their song V<\/em>oice-Of-An-Old-Friend-Summer-Camp-Bedford-Falls-remix<\/em>.\u00a0 We can’t help but hear heavy Thompson Twins and ABC influence in the mix, but there’s never been anything wrong with that.\u00a0 Is Malcolm McLaren the referenced “old friend” of the song’s title?\u00a0 Buffalo Dude and Gal have gone around the outside, indeed.<\/p>\n

Active Child–Voice-Of-An-Old-Friend-Summer-Camp-Bedford-Falls-remix<\/em><\/p>\n[audio:https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/Voice-Of-An-Old-Friend-Summer-Camp-Bedford-Falls-remix.mp3|titles=Voice Of An Old Friend (Summer Camp Bedford Falls remix)]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It was in the fall of 1915 that I decided not to use any color until I couldn’t get along without it and I believe it was June until I needed blue. –GEORGIA O’KEEFE Amen, Georgia.\u00a0 She must have been living in Santa Barbara at the time. We desperately needed blue in June, but deliverance […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelefortreport.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}