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1. Elvis Presley – “Spring Fever” (1965)

“A little bird, he told me so/He said come on, get on the go.” Sounds like an excerpt from a Dr. Seuss book. But it’s the King of Rock and Roll singing about driving down to Fort Lauderdale for spring break. From the 1965 celluloid zero “Girl Happy,” where it was easily overshadowed by “Do the Clam,” a song so pungent with spring fever it had to be performed on the beach at night for fear of frightening impressionable children.

2. Lovin’ Spoonful – “Daydream” (1966)

John Sebastian and his charges were slackers back when they were just called lollygaggers. Some might argue that the guy about to “fall on my face on somebody’s new mowed lawn” sounds more like he’s day-drinking than daydreaming. But while the state of inebriation can be argued, there’s no doubt the time of the season is spring. Compare this “sleepy bull dog” shuffle to how hopped up and paranoid the Lovin’ Spoonful sounded spending “Summer in the City” just one 45 release later.

3. The Magic Mushrooms – “It’s a Happening” (1966)

“Spray the weeds – a zephyr breathes, a mushroom hangs over the ground” sang the cosmically alert Magic Mushrooms in this psychedelic garage rave-up, which actually found a home on Herb Alpert’s laid-back A&M Records roster. If you have to have one trippy rites-of-spring song, misted with the dew of acid rain, well, this might have to be it. Britons can make a similar case for Pink Floyd’s “See Emily Play” or the Move’s “I Can Hear the Grass Grow.”

4. Simon & Garfunkel – “The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)” (1966)

This Paul Simon ode to kicking cobblestones clearly evokes the arrival of spring and not summer. Imagine trying to cross the 59th Street Bridge in New York in July or August without helicopters hovering overhead trying to rescue you.

5. The Rascals – “Groovin’” (1967) and “It’s a Beautiful Morning” (1968)

The Rascals released these celebrations of the arrival of warm weather in consecutive springs. The earlier “Groovin’” praised the joys of strollin’ through Manhattan with that special girl on a Sunday afternoon, but many people with their mind in a New York gutter thought “you and me endlessly groovin’” meant singer Felix Cavaliere was talking about starting up a threesome with a girl name Leslie. That’s why the less complicated “It’s a Beautiful Morning” got picked for more cracker and laxative commercials. With its invocation to “go outside for a while and just smile, just diggin’ the clean fresh air,” this could be considered “Son of Groovin’” since it employs many of the very same chirping birds. Listen in for the fade and you can hear a park vendor yelling “Peanuts.” Really!