Rick Nelson - Summertime

Have you ever noticed how much "Hello Mary Lou" sounds like "Lookin' Out My Backdoor" by Creedence?

Fantastic version of the old standard done by a great band. Most comments below seem to be unaware of the 'borrowing" that goes on among musicians. Johnny Rivers " borrowed Jimmy Burton's intro on this tune for his opening of " Memphis". The Liverpool Five were the first to borrow Joe Osborne's fantastic bass line for their tune " She's Mine" that then got borrowed by the Blues Magoos and later by D. Purple. Go listen on You Tube to them all and learn.The LP5 are my mother's favorite band.

Interesing pop history lesson. Thanks.

Actually the vocal tune much better on this song, better than DP version.

Ritchie has admitted that the black night riff is from this song. As AERIANCE said it was a moment that they were all drunk when they wrote the song. Their record company had asked them for a promotional single which they didnt like as a concept so they gave this one as a prank. Eventually it became a huge success

"Summertime" was written for
'Porgy and Bess' 1950's musical lol

Holy fuck... Deep Purple just stole this song!!!!

No one caught them red handed at that moment??

Yes & no. Deep Purple probably copied the riff from The Blues Magoos with their track We Ain't Got Nothing Yet. Who copied it from Rick Nelson.

There is a post on youtube where he explains where different ideas and riffs came from... he actually laughs and says "no.. really, that's where the riff came from". it's an interesting interview if you can find it, except Candice explaining about her witch collection. :-)

im a little appalled, and i LOVE deep purple. :(