NOW The Summer Album

In the summer of 1986 the NOW series spawned this the second seasonal release (Now Xmas the first). It didn't quite reach the dizzy heights of no.1 but this was probably more to do with the age market that was buying the NOW's rather than the tracks on it.
It is to this day a one off and probably will always be but as a companion to a sunny day in July you wont get much better!
OK, most of the songs are of a certain vintage but I think they easily cross the age barrier, if not for quality then definitely for singalongability (dont think thats a proper word but you know what I mean)
ARTIST SONG TITLE XTRAs?
Track01 The Young Rascals Groovin'  
Track02 The Isley Brothers Summer Breeze  
Track03 The Beach Boys Do it again  
Track04 Bill Withers Lovely Day  
Track05 10cc Dreadlock Holiday  
Track06 Astrud Gilberto The girl from Ipanema  
Track07 Bobby Goldsboro Summer (The first time)  
Track08 Cliff Richard Summer Holiday  
Track09 The Beach Boys California Girls  
Track10 Eddie Cochran Summertime Blues  
Track11 The Kinks Sunny Afternoon  
Track12 The Drifters Under the boardwalk Bruce Willis did an interesting cover version of this. Its on NOW??
Track13 Mamas and Papas California Dreamin'  
Track14 Scott McKenzie San Francisco In brackets after the title is (Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair). You'd never guess which era this is from???
Track15 The Beatles All you need is love  
Track16 Level 42 The sun goes down(Livin it up) The first hit for Level 42 from 1983
Track17 Katrina and the waves Walking on Sunshine Who would have guessed that a decade and a half after this 1985 song Katrina and her band would win the Eurovision
Track18 KC and the Sunshine band Give it up Also on the very first NOW album
Track19 Haircut 100 Fantastic day  
Track20 Elton John Island Girl  
Track21 Martha and the muffins Echo Beach A great summer song from March 1980
Track22 Barracudas Summer fun  
Track23 The Beatles Here comes the sun  
Track24 Cliff Richard The day I met Marie  
Track25 Mungo Jerry In the summertime  
Track26 The Small faces Lazy Sunday  
Track27 The Lovin Spoonful Summer in the city  
Track28 The Lovin Spoonful Daydream As far as I can make out this is the only incident of the same artist being featured twice in a row on a NOW
Track29 The Monkees Daydream Believer  
Track30 Jerry Keller Here comes summer  

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