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“Girls In Their Summer Clothes” by Bruce Springsteen
From the album Magic (2007)
“Girls In Their Summer Clothes” by Bruce Springsteen appears on 9 radio countdowns from 4 stations between 2007 and 2025. It was first released in 2007 on the album Magic. Its best result is #14 on the WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2007.
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Bruce Springsteen tucked "Girls in Their Summer Clothes" into Magic, his 2007 album on Columbia, and it's the record's big exhale: a pop melody, a pop-orchestral arrangement with a full string section, and Springsteen singing at full throttle over Garry Tallent's bass and Max Weinberg's drums, with Patrick Warren adding chamberlin and tack piano. Brendan O'Brien produced and mixed it.
The words drift through small-town snapshots, a diner, a spinning neon sign, a grill where the waitress offers a refill, and it has been called the album's breezy one. But A. O. Scott of The New York Times caught the sadness underneath: the narrator just stands there while the girls of the title stroll past him. It builds as it goes, the band and the voice pushing harder, and it won the Grammy for Best Rock Song.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
Indie & Adult Alternative
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 14 | WXPN Philadelphia, PA | WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2007 | 100 |
| 2008 | 39 | WVBR Ithaca, NY | WVBR Top 93 of 2008 | 93 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 184 | WYEP | WYEP 913 Songs That Matter from the Last Decade | 913 |
| 2013 | 79 | WXPN | WXPN 885 Greatest Songs of the New Millennium (2013) | 885 |
| 2020 | 1318 | WXPN | WXPN 2020 Greatest Songs of All Time | 2020 |
| 2022 | 516 | 90.9 The Bridge | 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the 2000s | 907 |
| 2024 | 892 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the Past 50 Years | 1049 |
| 2024 | 288 | WXPN | WXPN The 885 Greatest Songs of the 21st Century (2024) | 885 |
| 2025 | 516 | WYEP | WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) | 714 |
Also listed as: Girls in their Summer Clothes; Girls in Their Summer Clothes.
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