Hot town, summer in the city Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty Been down, isn’t it a pity Doesn’t seem to be a shadow in the city
The Lovin’ Spoonful’s 1966 classic pop song, Summer inwas always the soundtrack to my summers in New York City in the 1980s and ’90s. The Greenwich Village-based band perfectly captured the experience of living in a densely populated, airless heat trap during the hottest days of the year, when the footpath would melt under my feet and the subway platform was as sweaty as a Bangkok alleyway.
