“Summertime Girls” by Y&T

Y&T's one trip into the Hot 100 came with "Summertime Girls," and it got there sideways: the song first went out as the lead single from Open Fire, the band's first live album, then turned up again on Down for the Count, their seventh studio record, in 1985. Singer Dave Meniketti, guitarist Joey Alves, bassist Phil Kennemore and drummer Leonard Haze wrote it together, with Kevin Beamish producing. It became their biggest hit, stopping at 55 on the Hot 100, plus a No. 16 on the Mainstream Rock chart.

Rick Friedberg's video plays it for beach-movie laughs: Haze pops out of a pile of garbage, Meniketti and Kennemore climb out of a cave, a man with a metal detector turns up Alves in the sand, and four girls in black leather and chains walk off with the band at sunset.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.