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"Summertime Girls" is a single by American rock band Y&T. It was released as the first single from their first live album Open Fire. It later reappeared on their seventh studio album Down for the Count. The song became the band's biggest hit, as well as their first and only single to chart on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at number 55. [3]
As Meniketti has said in numerous radio, television, and magazine interviews over the past five decades, it was the new record deal ("which took forever" [to secure] [5]) in 1980 with A&M Records that prompted the band to shorten their name to simply Y&T, which was influenced by their encores where fans would chant, "Y&T, Y&T, Y&T." [6] [3]
Down for the Count is the seventh studio album by American hard rock/heavy metal band Y&T, released on November 9, 1985, by A&M Records. The album marks the band's change to a lighter sound to find success in the hair metal scene. [3] It contains the band's biggest hit "Summertime Girls", which charted at #55 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Open Fire is the first live album released by American hard rock/heavy metal band Y&T, released in 1985 by A&M Records, produced by Scott Boorey and the band.. The live material on the album was recorded at various venues in Greater London in early 1985, and during April 5–6, 1985, at the Keystone club in Palo Alto, California.
– The Australian band took its name from a Spanish word meaning "forehead" or "front". The name originated without the exclamation point at the end; it was added for their 1991 debut EP release, Whirled. The rationale, as stated by lead vocalist Angie Hart, was while "[w]e don't write our name like that, but we thought we would on the CD ...
Hilary Swank. Matt Winkelmeyer/FilmMagic Hilary Swank has a whole lot of love to celebrate on Valentine’s Day, including her twin son and daughter. The actress, 49, gushed over her babies via ...
The song was written by Rich Cronin, Dow Brain, and Brad Young.Cronin said the song included numerous inside jokes, [3] and that he never anticipated its success. He claimed this was because the song was made strictly for a demo tape, but was leaked to WWZZ, a top 40 radio station in Washington, D.C. [3] PD Dale O'Brien at the radio station got an unmixed copy of the song from Kelly ...
The name has ranked among the top 100 names for girls in recent years in Scotland, England, Wales, New Zealand, and Australia. [3] It has ranked among the top 300 names for girls in the United States since 1970 and was the 648th most common name for girls and women in the United States in the 1990 census.