The Oldies Music Board / Songs About Missing Someone During The Summer

**Posted by GrimsbyFan** July 5, 2025 6:17 am

Back then, families sometimes packed up and headed off for the summer. This resulted in a number of songs that reflected the feelings of teenage angst and concern about being away from that special someone for the entire summer.

Here are a few examples. Can you add to the list?

See You In September - The Tempos / The Happenings
It Might As Well Rain Until September - Carole King
Save Your Heart For Me - Gary Lewis and The Playboys
Sealed With A Kiss - Brian Hyland

Last edited by GrimsbyFan (July 5, 2025 6:18 am)

**Posted by Lorne** July 5, 2025 9:01 am

In addition to "Sealed With A Kiss", Brian Hyland had a minor hit in 1969 with "Stay And Love Me All Summer". The title might sound like it would be the opposite of this kind of song, but it actually portrays what the guy is wishing and pleading for rather than what's going to happen. Hyland was also the first artist to record "Save Your Heart For Me" in 1963, so he had at least three songs with this theme. And interestingly, Gary Lewis & the Playboys also charted with "Sealed With A Kiss" in 1968, so they had two hits with remakes of Hyland songs with this theme.

**Posted by GrimsbyFan** July 6, 2025 1:21 pm

Good one, Lorne I always appreciate the opportunity to listen to songs I have not heard before.

I'm going to suggest another one for the list, although this one is from a different perspective. Instead of saying goodbye for the summer, in A SUMMER SONG by Chad and Jeremy, the singer is describing his summer romance ("Soft kisses on a summer day / Laughing all our cares away / just you and I") and regretting that the summer fling is coming to an end ("But don't you know that it hurts me so / To say goodbye to you / Wish you didn't have to go") and that they will not be together again ("And when the rain beats against my window pane / I'll think of summer days again / And think of you")

**Posted by Lorne** July 7, 2025 7:53 am

Another minor hit that's also from a somewhat different perspective but which could be relevant here is Stevie Wonder's "Never Dreamed You'd Leave In Summer".

And two other songs about a summer romance and whether anything further will come of it are "Summer Nights" by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, and "Farewell My Summer Love" by Michael Jackson.

**Posted by C.D.P.** July 7, 2025 6:42 pm

"If You Go Away" by Terry Jacks