Describe your favorite summer as a kid using a single song.

Wow. So many good songs growing up. I used to listen to records in my parents' basement, with big headphones that had a big curly cord with a big auxiliary plug. Ike & Tina Turner. The Teardrops (the girl group my Aunt was in when she was a teenager). The Pointer Sisters.

Even before that I had a toy turntable and I'd play big 12" records with stories being read and songs being sung. "The Frog Prince" with Kermit the Frog comes to mind. Then there were the 7" read alongs with that bing that meant to turn the page. I especially remember a series of Gremlins 7" records that came with kids' meals at some fast food restaurant. I missed getting #4 and was DEVASTATED. Somehow my mom found it and completed my collection.

But if I had to pick a favorite song that reminds me of summer as a kid - a song that would've played through the speakers at the swimming pool, and on the radio in the hot car without air conditioning, and that Casey Kasem, who's would've talked about, it'd have to be Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) by Eurythmics. The Google AI says: The iconic breakout single by Eurythmics, "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)", famously climbed to the #1 spot on Casey Kasem’s American Top 40 countdown in late summer 1983.