Check out Sun Bingo’s five sunny music album recommendations this summer
ADD these five sunny-named albums to your summer playlist.
Summer 2023 hasn’t exactly been what we expected so far. The UK is a hybrid of summer dress wearing hopefuls and winter coat wearing pessimists.
Will that change soon?
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While Sun Bingo can’t bring the sunny weather, we can recommend sunny tunes that will make you feel like it’s a glorious summer’s day.
We’ve rounded up five albums that have names inspired by the sun.
How many have you listened to before?
You might just discover a new favourite.
The Sun Sessions – Elvis Presley
Released in March 1976, The Sun Sessions was a compilation album containing some of Elvis’ best songs.
The album was released by RCA Records and originally sold 200,000 copies.
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The songs on the album were:
- That’s All Right
- Blue Moon of Kentucky
- I Don’t Care if the Sun Don’t Shine
- Good Rockin’ Tonight
- Milkcow Blues Boogie
- You’re a Heartbreaker
- I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone
- Baby Let’s Play House
- Mystery Train
- I Forgot to Remember to Forget
- I’ll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin’)
- I Love You Because
- Trying To Get To You
- Blue Moon
- Just Because
- I Love You Because (Alternate Take 2)
The Warmth of the Sun – The Beach Boys
Another compilation album, Capitol Records released The Beach Boys’ The Warmth of the Sun in 2007.
It was a companion to Sounds of Summer: The Very Best of The Beach Boys, which was released in 2003.
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It included several songs that had been remixed in stereo for the first time.
Fan favourites that formed the set list were:
- All Summer Long (New Stereo Mix)
- Catch a Wave
- Hawaii
- Little Honda
- 409
- It’s O.K.
- You’re So Good to Me (New Stereo Mix)
- Then I Kissed Her (New Stereo Mix)
- Kiss Me, Baby
- Please Let Me Wonder (New Stereo Mix)
- Let Him Run Wild (New Stereo Mix)
- The Little Girl I Knew
- Disney Girls (1957)
- Forever
- Friends
- Break Away (Alternate Stereo Mix)
- Why Do Fools Fall in Love
- Surf’s Up
- Feel Flows
- All This is That
- Till I Die
- Sail On, Sailor
- Cool, Cool Water
- Don’t Go Near the Water
- California Saga (On My Way to Sunny Californ-i-a)
- California Dreamin
- The Warmth of the Sun
Walking on Sunshine – Katrina and the Waves
The debut album for Katrina and the Waves was released in December 1983 by Attic Records.
The band released the album themselves beforehand, with the hope of selling copies at their gigs.
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The album was reissued in 2010 with a limited 1000 copies.
The set list contains the following songs:
- Dancing Street
- Spiderman
- Going Down to Liverpool
- Machine Gun Smith
- Walking on Sunshine
- Brown Eyed Son
- Que Te Quiero
- Don’t Take Her Out of My World
- I Really Taught Me to Watusi
- Ain’t No Money (Buy You Love)
Glorious Sunset – Hundred Reasons
This English alternative rock band first formed in 1999. After a prolonged hiatus, the band released their first new music in 15 years in February 2023.
This is their fifth album, following “Quick The Word, Sharp The Action” in 2007.
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The new album contains 10 songs:
- Glorious Sunset
- New Glasses
- It Suits You
- Replicate
- Done
- Right There With You
- Insultiment
- So So Soon
- The Old School Way
- Wave Form
Sunrise – Elvis Presley
Starting and ending with the King of Rock and Roll, Sunrise was a compilation album of Elvis Presley’s studio recordings at Sun Studio between 1953 and 1955.
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It was a two-disc album, each with a tracklist of 19 songs. The set contains Sun masters, outtakes and rare live recordings.
Disc one has a similar set list to The Sun Sessions:
- That’s All Right
- Blue Moon of Kentucky
- Good Rockin’ Tonight
- I Don’t Care if the Sun Don’t Shine
- Milkcow Blues Boogie
- You’re a Heartbreaker
- Baby Let’s Play House
- I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone
- I Forgot to Remember to Forget
- Mystery Train
- I Love You Because
- Harbour Lights
- Blue Moon
- Tomorrow Night
- I’ll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin’)
- Just Because
- I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone (slow version)
- Trying To Get To You
- When it Rains, it Really Pours
Disc two contains the following songs:
- My Happiness
- That’s When Your Heartaches Begin
- I’ll Never Stand in Your Way
- It Wouldn’t Be the Same Without You
- I Love You Because (Alternate Take)
- That’s All Right (takes 1, 2 and 3)
- Blue Moon of Kentucky (Alternative Take)
- Blue Moon (takes 4 and 5)
- I’ll Never Let You Go (Little Darlin’) (alternative take)
- I Don’t Care If The Sun Don’t Shine (takes 1, 2 and 3)
- I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone (slow version) (take 7)
- Fool, Fool, Fool
- Shake, Rattle and Roll
- I’m Left, You’re Right, She’s Gone (Live)
- That’s All Right
- Money Honey (Live)
- Tweedlee Dee
- I Don’t Care if the Sun Don’t Shine (Live)
- Hearts of Stone
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