Who do you think deserves the 'song of the summer' title?
The kids are returning to school, the days are getting shorter, and, even though there's been no real relief from the heat yet, that can only mean one thing: Summer is coming to an end. And for those of us who eat, breathe and sleep music, the season's eventual end as we inch ever closer to Labor Day Weekend means the start of something else: A furious debate over who exactly had"the song of summer.
While this year's contest seems to be pretty cut and dry when it comes to a winner—more on that in a second—the need to declare one has kept fans, critics, and record label execs alike scrambling to prove why their contender is the season's true champ. But when did this whole thing get its start? And why is it of such importance? The answer just might surprise you.
As soon as music was able to be sold commercially—first through sheet music that one could play by home, and later, thanks to advancing technology, actual recordings—a hit-driven market meant that songs were able to become country-wide sensations and journalists would want to talk about them. New York Tribune
wrote,"The roof gardens are opening and the summer shows begin. In the words of the almanac, 'About this time look out for the summer song.' What will it be this season? Will it be humorous? Will it be sentimental? Will it be unmitigated trash? Will it be at least bearable, in text or music, or both?"
While the conversation surrounding them might be the same as today, the songs themselves certainly were not. Thecited songs like"My Wife's Gone to the Country! Hooray, Hooray!" and"Where Did You Get That Hat?" as the previous year's top songs, while predicting that year's smash might be either a song aboutor one dedicated to Halley's Comet, which appeared in 1910.
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