Mike Batt - Summertime City

TOTP September 1975.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Mike
• Batt
• Summertime
• City
• Wombles

[newall7]

are u kidding!!! not mikes finest hour ?

this was theme to seaside special

it was massive hit in all the discos

[dojj1968]

Hot summer of 1975 - this programme was on the BBC on a Saturday evening.

They would tour around the country doing it every week from a different resort.

I think it was generally performed under a big top - I can't remember everything!

I know the BBC asked the most profilic song writer of the time to commission a theme tune. Result Mike (the Womble) Batt and the rest is history.

Somebody has written how music was so much more wholesome and melodic then - and it is hard to disagree

[jonemz]

What a classic track......brings back great memories, cheers for posting 

[brighton43]

great fun memories of seaside special from the 70s.saw the show in Brighton in ' I think 1980' when me and my girlfriend moved to the south coast. wish they had shows as good as that now.afraid the likes of ant 'n' dec just cant do it. shame

[SuperGingernutz]

Grief! I flaming remember this song ... and the prog!

[nayzomarsh10]

i miss the 70,s sooo much...i wish i could be transported back...life was happier,simpler and everything seemed real,,,people,music,fashion,na­ture and life in general...even the summers were better !! can anybody remmember 76... god i felt alive

[trashcanalive]

Try to be objective. You might have fond memories of the Seaside Special TV show, and this song by association. But really, it doesn't stand on its own as a 'great', 'classic' or 'fantastic' song. If anything, it's a bit dull and flaccid.

[KeepBizzy]

Fantastic song

[roccotina]

the caveat to all this praise though is that mike batt turned out to be...a tory. shame that. summertime city, ain't got the summertime blues.

[roccotina]

sorry, error in previous comment...alcohol, once again, may have been a factor. the velvet underground song i mentioned should, of course, have been 'there she goes again'

still think the peachy one is flippin sexy!

[roccotina]

the "de de de der, de de de der" bit...is like a velvet underground record, isn't it? 'i'll be your mirror', i think.

anyway, i used to knock on doors to that tune when i was calling round at mates' houses as a nipper. pete foxtcroft in particular, as i recall.

by the way, pan's people are soooo sexy...blimey, i was 6 when this came out, yet i can recall a strange feeling in my loins just watching them. the peachy one in this is indescribably gorgeous, no?