Candy Girl was the song of summer 1983. Back in those halcyon days, Bobby Brown had yet to break either his voice or any laws and we were too young to worry about keeping in shape.

Back to the future and this 30 degree day we are wondering if, in fact, it was a good idea to drop our gym membership for the summer--the gym has A/C!

We aren't really complaining, of course. Summer is here and to celebrate enjoy this sampling of summer songs.

p.s. Think of this list as a tasting sampler of good stuff to feed to your MP3 player. Unfortunately, many of the songs only play for 30 seconds.