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Is the requirement for the song to have been released/ charted in the Summer and thus synonymous with the Season etc? Or is it for any song that one finds uplifting on a Summers day? If it is the former? then I seem to recall that both Jam nominations were Winter/ early Spring at a push, unless of course being heard in the Southern Hemisphere?

I often have difficulty confusing Summer songs with what I'll call 'road/ driving' songs, as one activity tends to have a close relationship with the other in my humble experience, and spinning along empty(ish) roads (well they were then) in amongst mountains and lakes, with the sun out, windows and shades on etc can be a quite uplifting experience with the appropriate accompaniment.

There's always that nostalgia thing gnawing away at me with this kind of thing too, where average songs take on a meaning and status that they don't necessarily deserve on musical merit, as we associate them with exciting and optimistic times. As time passed by however, I've come to regard these increasingly with a sense of depression and lack of personal fulfillment and hence they serve to remind me of punctured dreams, the creeping passage of time and futility of life   :lol: 

I suppose the nearest one I have to that would be 'Baby Give It Up' by KC and Sunshine Band, number 1 in 1983, my own personal Summer of adolescent liberation. Suffice to say '83 was a hot Summer and it used to remind me of halcyon days laced with unbridled optimism for the future. I think its more likely to send me off the razor blades now though