Ryan Adams went 12 years without playing a Bryan Adams song in concert, but I can’t say I’ve done any better. I’m coming up on seven years of Song of the Day posts and I’ve yet to feature a Bryan Adams song.
So today I’ll remedy that by posting the same song Ryan Adams played at his recent concert, and certainly Bryan’s best track, ‘Summer of ’69.’
I was surprised to see that this was the fourth single released from Adams’ 1984 album Reckless. Three songs got the record company nod before this one?
Then I saw that those three singles were ‘Run To You,’ ‘Somebody’ and ‘Heaven’ and it was hard to argue. Which means, by my three great songs makes for a very good album theory, that Reckless is at least a very good album.
So I hopped over to Amazon and downloaded the deluxe reissue for $5. Gotta love the internet.
Bought it at the five and dime
Played it til my fingers bled
Was the summer of ’69
Me and some guys from school
Had a band and we tried real hard
Jimmy quit and Jody got married
I shoulda known we’d never get far
But when I look back now
That summer seemed to last forever
And if I had the choice
Ya – I’d always wanna be there
Those were the best days of my life
Ain’t no use in complainin’
When you got a job to do
Spent my evenin’s down at the drive-in
And that’s when I met you – ya
Standin’ on your mama’s porch
You told me that you’d wait forever
Oh and when you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life
Back in the summer of ’69
Man we were killin’ time
We were young and restless
We needed to unwind
I guess nothin’ can last forever – forever, no…
And now the times are changin’
Look at everything that’s come and gone
Sometimes when I play that old six string
I think about ya’n wonder what went wrong
Standin’ on your mama’s porch
You told me it would last forever
Oh the way you held my hand
I knew that it was now or never
Those were the best days of my life
Back in the summer of ’69
Meet Me In Montauk 
Too funny! So now the Completist in you will end up buying Adams’ entire discography.