Thursday music corner: Influential proto-punk singer-songwriter Jonathan Richman (b. Boston, 1951) has been releasing music since 1976, first with his band the Modern Lovers, and then as a solo artist since 1989. He has released over 40 albums in that time, and has had three top 40 singles in the UK charts during the peak of the punk era: Roadrunner (which reached number 11) and Egyptian Reggae (which reached number 5), both in 1977, and Morning Of Our Lives, which reached number 29 the following year.
The wistful That Summer Feeling appeared as the opening track on Richman and the Modern Lovers' 1983 album Jonathan Sings!, which received praise from critics in both the Village Voice and the NME. Richman also recorded a longer version of the song on his 1992 album I, Jonathan.
Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers - That Summer Feeling (1983)
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