Chapter 9 ‐‐ Its More Than Just Rain or Snow – “Inclusion of weather in at least one of the songs."

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Nor are the seasons the exclusive property of high culture. The Mamas & the Papas, expressing dissatisfaction with winter, gray skies, and brown leaves, do some “California dreamin’ ” as they wish their way back to the land of perpetual summer. Simon & Garfunkel cover much the same unhappy ground in “A Hazy Shade of Winter.” The Beach Boys made a very lucrative career out of happy-summer-land with all those surfing and cruising songs. Head for the beach with your surfboard and your Chevy convertible in a Michigan January and see what that gets you. Bob Seger, who is from Michigan, goes nostalgic for that first summer of freedom and sexual initiation in “Night Moves.”