To ask for your best 70s/80s summer tunes

[Coroico97]

Just that really. Planning a party and need to create a playlist. My faves - Long Hot Summer by Style Council and Cruel Summer - The GREAT Nanarama. All your faves welcome here. THANK YOU!

Eternal Flame - the bangles

Girls just want to have fun - cyndi lauper

Oh God you've started me off OP...

Oh and for a lovely slice of cheese:

Y Viva Espana (sp?)

Let's Stick Together - Bryan Ferry.

EVERY SONG THEY MADE! - ABBA

Seriously songs are just pouring out of my brain - I didn't even realise I had all this stuff tucked away in my memory? Am presently humming along to "Making your Mind up" now by Buck's Fizz! I can't have been more than 4 years old when they won the Eurovision Song contest!

ELO - Mr Blue Sky
Bob Marley - 3 Little Birds and Sun is Shining
Alice Cooper - Schools out for Summer

Jammin Bob Marley
Cecilia Simon and Garfunkel
Baby I love your way Peter Frampton
Here comes the Sun. The Beatles
Good vibrations the beach boys

Last Train to London - ELO
Club Tropicana - Wham
Echo Beach - Martha & the Muffins

Summer Breeze - Isley Brothers
I heard it through the grapevine
Heat Wave
Nutbush City Limits
Boogie Nights
A Message to you Rudy
Milk and Alcohol
La Bamba
Love Shack
White Riot
London Calling
Long Hot Summer
Rio
Its My Life
Atomic
PigBag
Mirror in the Bathroom
Making Plans for Nigel
Someone Somewhere in the SUmmer
Echo Beach
Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll
Sheena is a Punk Rocker
New Rose
Pump It Up
Tainted Love
Eighties
Pull Up to the Bumper
Don't Turn Around
I'm the man
Heroes
Dancing in the Street
I'll Stop There

Here comes the summer- The Undertones
Any mid-80s Madonna
Edge of Heaven- Wham
Rio- Duran Duran
Echo Beach- Martha and the Muffins

I always think Love Will Keep Us Together by Captain and Tennille has an amazing 70s party vibe and is kind of forgotten nowadays.

Great party songs from that era - courtesy of Rod Stewart:

Maggie May
Do ya think I'm sexy
Baby Jane

Lido Shuffle - Boz Scaggs
Summer in the City
Saturday Night Fever and anything by Earth Wind and Fire

Hot in the City - Billy Idol

Ooh La La - The Faces
Sir Duke - Stevie Wonder
Soul Man - Sam and Dave
September - Earth, Wind and Fire
Loco in Acapulco- The Four Tops
Proud Mary - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones

oh I can't wait for summer!!!

Automatic - The Pointer Sisters
Feel for you - Shaka Kahn
I wanna dance with somebody - Whitney Houston
Club Tropicana - Wham
Rip - Duran Duran
Dancing on the Ceiling - Lionel Ritchie

Kids in america - Kim wilde

Not that summery but a fucking tune- freedom. 👊👊😎

Thank you all!! I think I have my playlist!! Pity it's so freezing outside but summer soon, surely?! Still laughing at Bill Withered!!!

Back to life - soul II Soul
Straight Up - Paula Abdul

Little Wing by Jimi Hendrix

I see only one pp so far has mentioned the single best ever 80s summer track, namely Summer Fun by the barracudas ('I can't pronounce bacaruda'). This also happens to be the best ever running track.

A fellow fan!

It'd definitely summery, and squarely from the 1980s so fits the OP's criteria.

I hadn't though of it as a running track (off to see about adding it to my current playlist)

Somewhere in my Heart by Aztec Camera

Any song by Deacon Blue

Long hot summer by the Style Council.