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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.

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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.

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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.

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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:

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  • 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:

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  • 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:

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