Tuesday June 29, 2021 ”Summer of ‘69” Bryan Adams

Bryan Adams is a legend...mostly in Canada though.

Bryan Adams's awards and nominations include twenty Juno Awards among fifty six nominations and 15 Grammy Award nominations, including a win for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television in 1992. For his songwriting for films, Adams has been nominated three times for Academy Awards and five Golden Globe Awards. 

Adams was ranked 38th on the list of all-time top artists in the Billboard Hot 100 50th Anniversary Charts.

In 1990, Canadian Adams was awarded the Order of British Columbia. Also in 1990, Adams was made a Member of the Order of Canada, and in 1998 was promoted within the order to the rank of Officer of the Order of Canada.

In case you weren't doing the math Bryan Adams was only nine years old in '69.  When asked in an interview by a local New York City DJ what the significance of the year 1969 was to him Bryan simply replied that the song had nothing to do with a year...there was a pause by the DJ followed by "Oh, my!"

Stay safe and well...and don’t confuse Bryan Adams with Ryan Adams who is a very different man, and not in a good way.

I got my first real six-string

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, Jody got married

I should've known we'd never get far

 Oh, when I look back now

That summer seemed to last forever

And if I had the choice

Yeah, I'd always wanna be there

Those were the best days of my life

 Ain't no use in complainin'

When you've got a job to do

Spent my evenings down at the drive-in

And that's when I met you, yeah

 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

 Oh, yeah

Back in the summer of '69, oh

 Man we were killin' time

We were young and restless

We needed to unwind

I guess nothin' can last forever, forever, no!

Yeah!

 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 you, wonder what went wrong

 Standin' on your mama's porch

You told me that it'd last forever

Oh, and when you held my hand

I knew that it was now or never

Those were the best days of my life

 Oh, yeah

Back in the summer of '69, oh

It was the summer of '69, oh, yeah

Me and my baby in '69, oh

It was the summer

The summer, the summer of '69, yeah