Grease Sound Track-Summer Nights

Summer Nights

1978

John Travolta/Olivia Newton John

The second runaway hit from the movie's the one pretty much everyone gets the title wrong on about 75% of the time. Don't feel too bad though...I've heard DJs occasionally get the title wrong, because a lot of people remember it as 'Summer Lovin' when the title was actually 'Summer Nights'.

You guys remember it well...the one where Danny and Sandy are regaling, respectively, The T-Birds and The Pink Ladies with their very different versions of their summer romance before either knew that the other was a fellow student at Good Ol' Rydell High.

Of the Big Four singles from Grease, Summer Nights was the next to last one released as a single.  Even though 'Summer Nights' was performed before 'You're The One That I Want' in the movie and was played on the radio all summer long, it wasn't released as a single until August 25^th, 1978...two months and change After 'You're The One That I Want'. Actually, Summer Nights may have almost been an afterthought...it was released as a follow up after 'You're The One That I Want's run-away success on the charts. and though it didn't hit quite as big as You're The One That I Want, it still made it to # 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Quickly I might add.

Then in 2010,  Summer Night's place in Top Forty History was confirmed and cemented in place for all time when The Billboard Hot 100 released their list of Top Summer Songs Of All Time. Summer Nights was again in the Top 10, sitting pretty at #9.

I actually haven't heard this one on an Oldies station for a while...too bad, actually, because it truly deserved its place on the charts and the list of Top Summer Songs Of All Time...this song, to a lot of people, was the signature song of The Summer Of 1978 even if it was the next to last of the four singles to be released as a single!

So Enjoy (And again, I know ya sang along to this one!)

Summer Nights by John Travolta and Olivia Newton John

It's highly likely that no single TV show has helped bring back a lot of the oldies, and reintroduced them to a new generation of kids better than the kids from Glee. And yep...they performed their own, unfortunately seriously shortened, version of the song in an episode devoted to the musical. Still sound pretty good though...but John and Liv, AKA The original Danny and Sandy, still own it and always will!

So as a Bonus...Summer Nights, The Glee Version.