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I listen to the oldies, some of them for decades, most of them for decades now I guess, and I still notice things I missed.

Like Jerry Keller's "Here Comes Summer".

(which was also covered in maybe 1966 by someone who got immense play on WYBG Massena just barely receivable in Ottawa).

What I noticed: the chorus includes several bars from a much older song (which Idid know), but then, thinking about this quotation might imply or at least suggest that the singer of the song is singing exactly at the beginning of May.

Why?

Being old enough to know that song, and having grown up in Kentucky, I think you're referring to the part of the song that uses the melody and a few words (the sun shines bright) from "My Old Kentucky Home." The official "My Old Kentucky Home" is in Bardstown, Kentucky, and is depicted on the back of the state quarter that honors Kentucky. The historical details and accuracy of that house's legendary connection to Stephen Foster are sometimes debated.

Found the song for you on Youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sePcM7QbraQ


Ray

My crappy ear tells me there MIGHT be a shift from minor to major for Keller's final bars "when my happy summer comes" or "happy summer home" lyric, but apart from that, the last part of the chorus quotes "My Old Kentucky Home"

which for those of us with no connection to that state, is heard exactly ONCE a year

at Kentucky Derby time, beginning of May. Which is the logical time to be anticipating summer.

The connection seeming to me now, 40 odd years after hearing the sixties cover of the song.

That YouTube is a blast, watching the 45 RPM record go round and round as the video...
Since-- anyone of (ulp, my age) watched the 45 RPM records go round and round the Wurlitzer just exactly in that era, before they replaced the real vinyl in the juke boxes with whatever they replaced it with.