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你喜欢哪一首有关夏天的歌曲？

本周，我们向你介绍一些我们所喜爱的有关夏天的歌曲。

如果你问大多数美国人，他们最喜欢一年中的哪个季节，他们会告诉你：是夏天。夏天的气候暖和，人们不必为保暖而穿厚重的衣服，年轻人不用去上学，他们可以进行各种各样的户外活动，如参加体育活动，以及在海滩或在游泳池里游泳。人们喜欢白天的阳光和夜晚的暖和。人们创作和录制了数以百计的有关夏天的歌曲。下面这些就是我们所喜爱的夏天歌曲。

最著名的一首夏天歌曲是来自乔治.格什温的歌剧《Porgy and Bess》(《波吉和贝丝》http://theshadman.com/music/No Doubt/Sublime/Sublime%20-%20Summertime.mp3)中的一首歌，乔治.格什温于1935年创作了这部歌剧，这部歌剧的故事发生在美国的南方，它开头是这样的：“夏天来了，生活更加方便了，鱼在水中跳跃，棉花也长高了。”利昂特尼.普赖斯演唱这首歌曲。

下面是比利.斯图尔特所演唱的同首歌曲。

在上世纪五、六十年代出现了许多反映年轻人离开学校度假的歌曲，这些歌曲所反映的大都是有关开心地玩、在海里游泳和驾车游玩等。这首《Summertime, Summertime》(《夏日时光》)是由简迷斯演唱的。

在加州，夏季的时间很长，而对于“海滩男孩”而言，那一年四季都是夏天，他们唱有关他们所喜爱运动的歌曲，如冲浪。下面是一首“海滩男孩”所演唱的歌曲《All Summer Long》(《永远都是夏天》·  ·  http://www.mtco.com/~deisel/temp/music/03%20All%20Summer%20Long.mp3)。

然而，对于一些年轻人而言，夏天的假期并不总是那么令人愉快的，有些年轻人必须为挣钱而去工作。艾迪.科驰兰在这首《Summertime Blues》(《夏天的忧愁》·  ·  http://www.marsneedsguitars.com/mp3_june/summer I/08%20Summertime%20Blues.mp3)唱出这种感觉。许多乐队(包括的摇滚乐队----是谁)和音乐家后来也都录制了这首歌曲。

“满匙爱”乐队并不喜欢城市里的夏天，因为城市里的夏天太热了，他们唱到：“夏天的城市，是炎热的城镇，让我的后脖子肮脏不堪。在城市四周，人们看起来就像半死不活地走在人行道上，热得比火柴头还要烫。”他们更喜欢夜晚，在夜晚他们可以跳舞，可以玩得很开心。《Summer in the City》(《城市的夏天》http://notfine.com/...gina Spektor/Begin to Hope/12%20Summer%20In%20The%20City.mp3)于1966年夏天发行，这也是“满匙爱”乐队最成功的歌曲之一。

即使夏天的天气非常炎热，“斯莱和斯通一家”乐队仍然能够在夏天找到乐趣，这首有关夏天许诺带给我们快乐的歌曲，包含在《county fair in the country sun》(《乡下的太阳对各地一视同仁》)专辑中。

在上世纪九十年代，“杰兹.杰夫和新鲜王子”推出这首即兴歌曲《Summertime》(《夏天》)，这首歌曲表达了在夏天，朋友们在一起玩得很开心。

让我们在这首《Summer Nights》(《夏夜》)歌曲中结束我们今天的节目吧。这首歌曲来自电影版的音乐剧《Grease》(《油脂》)中，这部电影讲述的是两位年轻人在他们夏天的假期中相遇并坠入爱河的故事。他们在秋天回到学校后，他们把他们的故事讲给朋友们听。约翰.特拉沃尔塔和奥利维亚.牛顿-约翰一起演唱这首《Summer Nights》(《夏夜》)( http://netg.pl/...%20Travolta%20&%20Olivia%20Newton-John%20-%20Summer%20Nights.mp3)。

简评：

朋友，夏天来了。

夏天是一年中最自由的季节，也是最开放的季节。在这个季节中，我们可以抛弃许多约束，尽情地展示自我，放松自己。

这里有许多非常好听的夏天之歌，如果你有兴趣，就点击本文中的一些链接，你就可以听到这些优美的歌曲。

让我们都在这优美的歌曲中尽情地度过美好的夏天吧!

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 What Is Your Favorite Song About Summer?

This week on our program, we play some of our favorite songs about summer.

If you ask most Americans, they would say their favorite season of the year is summer. The weather is warm. They do not have to wear heavy clothes to keep warm. Young people do not have to go to school. They can do many activities outside, like playing sports and swimming at the beach or the pool. They like the sunshine during the day and the warm summer nights. People have written and recorded hundreds of songs about summer. These are some of our favorites.

One of the most famous songs about summer is from George Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess." He wrote the music in nineteen thirty-five. The opera takes place in the southern United States. It opens with these words: "Summertime and the livin' is easy. Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high." Leontyne Price sings the song. 

Here is Billy Stewart's version of the same song.

The nineteen fifties and sixties produced many songs about teenagers enjoying their summer vacation from school. The songs are about having fun, swimming in the ocean, driving in cars. This one is "Summertime, Summertime" by the Jamies. 

It is summer almost all year long in California. And it was summer all the time for the Beach Boys. They sang about their favorite activities, like riding the ocean waves on surfboards. Here is one Beach Boy song, "All Summer Long." 

However, for some teenagers, summer vacation was not all fun and games. Some of them had to work to earn money. Eddie Cochran sang about this in "Summertime Blues." Many other bands and artists later recorded this song, including the British rock band, the Who.

The Lovin' Spoonful was a band that did not love summers in the city because of the heat. They sang: "Hot town, summer in the city. Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty." And: "All around, people looking half-dead, walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head." They liked the nighttime better when they could dance and have more fun. "Summer in the City" was released in the summer of nineteen sixty-six and was one of the Lovin' Spoonful's greatest hits.  

Even though it was hot, Sly and the Family Stone still found ways to have fun in the summertime. This song is about the happiness that the season promises, including going to a "county fair in the country sun."  

In the nineteen nineties, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince produced this hip-hop song called "Summertime." It is about being with friends and having a good time.

We leave you with a song from the movie version of the musical "Grease." It is about two teenagers who meet during their summer vacation and fall in love. Back at school in the autumn, they tell their friends all about it. John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John sing "Summer Nights."