Note: This song was written by John Sebastian, Mark Sebastian and Steve Boone. And is not the song written by Regina Spektor, who wasn't even born when the song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1966! Right, Marion Jenkins? It appeared on the album Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful. The song is ranked number 401 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. When at Blair Academy, Mark Sebastian submitted the lyrics as a poem for the literary magazine. That poem, entitled "Summer In the City," had the refrain "but at night it's a different world, go out and find a girl, come on, come on and dance all night, despite the heat it'll be alright, and babe don't you know it's a pity, the days can't be like the night, in the summer in the city." His older brother John changed the slower verses to a more upbeat model, keeping the title and the refrain. Mark's part remains as he wrote it, words and music. Bassist Steve Boone added the instrumental coda in the middle. The song features a series of car horns during the instrumental bridge, starting with a Volkswagen Beetle horn, and ends up with a jackhammer sound, in order to give the impression of the sounds of the summer in the city. Definitely a class!