Jamestown Massacre, "Summer Sun"

It's officially summer now, though you wouldn't know it to look at a New York City that's resembling London more and more each week. Last year I posted a "Summer" theme set (though I wasn't yet in the practice of including YouTube links all over the place); there hardly seems reason to repeat the idea. Especially since, as he always does, Barry Scott gave a far superior treatment to the "summer" theme on this weekend's episode of "The Lost 45s."

Scott, a longtime fixture on Boston radio, deals primarly in chart-pop obscurities, the sorts of songs that made the Top 40 in their day but never came back into circulation in any of the oldies/classic rock/Jack radio formats. He can always be counted on to play something I've never heard before, and this weekend he came through again. Played "Summer Sun," a tune I'd never heard of from a band I'd never heard of (Jamestown Massacre, and the name is a reference to events of 1622, not a foreshadowing of events of 1978) that made it to #90 in 1972. A bit of research tells me they're from Chicago, and I shouldn't be surprised: there's a unified sound that links "Summer Sun" both to the Buckinghams, Chicagoans who'd had a burst of success five years prior, and to roughly contemporary local efforts "L.A. Goodbye" by the Ides of March and "Lake Shore Drive" by Aliotta, Haynes & Jeremiah. I've been thinking that if there really was such a thing as a "Chicago sound" circa 1972, I'd like to hear more of it.