"Summer Girls" is a song by American pop group LFO. It was released on June 29, 1999, as the lead single from their debut album, LFO (1999). "Summer Girls" reached number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart was certified platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). In 2010, Billboard magazine named it the 14th-biggest summer song of all time.[1] In 2019, Billboard also ranked the song the 43rd-greatest song of 1999.[2] This was the band's first single to feature Devin Lima as a member of the group after original member Brian "Brizz" Gillis left the group.
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The song was written by Rich Cronin, Dow Brain, and Brad Young. Cronin said the song included numerous inside jokes,[3] and that he never anticipated its success. He claimed this was because the song was made strictly for a demo tape, but was leaked to WWZZ, a top 40 radio station in Washington, D.C.[3] PD Dale O'Brien at the radio station got an unmixed copy of the song from Kelly Schweinsberg, GM of LFO's initial label, Logic Records. He listened to it a few days later, his "jaw dropped, and the song was added in a hot second."[4]
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Raman, Sheela (July 7, 2005). "Rich Cronin's comeback Six years after 'Summer Girls,' the leader of LFO battles leukemia". The Boston Globe. Retrieved January 9, 2009. "I just thought back to when I was young, happy, no worries," he says. 'Summer Girls' was all about a summer on the Cape. Inside jokes. I never thought that anyone besides my close friends would ever hear it." But the song was leaked to a radio station and climbed Billboard charts.
^Summer Girls (US cassette single sleeve). LFO. Arista Records. 1999. 07822-13692-4.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
^Summer Girls (Australian CD single liner notes). LFO. Logic Records, Arista Records. 1999. 74321 69349 2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
^Summer Girls (European CD single liner notes). LFO. Logic Records, Arista Records. 1999. 74321 70088 2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
^Summer Girls (UK cassette single sleeve). LFO. Logic Records, Arista Records. 1999. 74321 70115 4.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
^Summer Girls (UK CD1 liner notes). LFO. Logic Records, Arista Records. 1999. 74321 70115 2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
^Summer Girls (UK CD2 liner notes). LFO. Logic Records, Arista Records. 1999. 74321 70116 2.{{cite AV media notes}}: CS1 maint: others in cite AV media (notes) (link)
^Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988–2010 (PDF ed.). Mt Martha, Victoria, Australia: Moonlight Publishing. p. 172.
