It’s been riot-inducing hot for most of the country this past week, with temperatures today topping out at the 100 degrees mark featuring a heat index of a mere 108 here in NYC. While there are plenty of songs about summer heat that would be appropriate to use, I thought that we’d turn to Mr. Bill Withers for one of the coolest songs I’ve heard recently, Harlem, the lead track from from his 1971 debut album Just As I Am.
The tune, which opens with the line “Summer night in Harlem, man it’s a really hot / Well it’s too hot to sleep, and I’m too cold to heat”, just seems like a great way to sum things up. Let’s check out this live performance, that we hope you’ll enjoy with the temperature on your AC turned all the way down and a cold beverage in hand…
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