The Lovin' Spoonful's classic tune nails it.

Damn but it's hot outside! Summer in the city is filled with a lot of laughter and dripping, seemingly endless sweat (all around, people looking half dead, walking on the sidewalk, hotter than a match head...), plus tons of excitement and anticipation of what's to come (but at night it's a different world, go out and find a girl, come-on come-on and dance all night, despite the heat it'll be all right).

After all, it's New York City. You can never be sure what's going to happen.

The lyrics to the song were written by the 15-year-old younger brother of the band's leader, a Greenwich Village student at the time. The band itself stayed in our hotel back in the day. (I mean, didn't all the greats?)

Check it out. The perfect song for this week:

Enjoy, everyone!

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