"Summertime Guy" is a song recorded by
Eddie Rambeau, issued by
Swan Records
Swan Records was a mid-20th century United States-based record label, founded in 1957 and based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It had a subsidiary label called Lawn Records.
History
Swan Records had enjoyed chart success with several U.S. arti ...
, and written and composed by game show pioneer
Chuck Barrisbr>
Originally, Rambeau was to debut the song on ''
American Bandstand'' in 1962, but mere minutes before Rambeau was to perform, he was told the song could not be sung, due to Barris then being an
ABC employee, owing to concerns of
payola
Payola, in the music industry, is the illegal practice of paying a commercial radio station to play a song without the station disclosing the payment. Under US law, a radio station must disclose songs they were paid to play on the air as spons ...
, which had become a major music industry scandal at the time. That was also the reason for the record not receiving airplay on any ABC-owned radio station, weighing the song down so it was not a hi
Later, Barris contacted composer
Milton DeLugg to arrange an instrumental version of the song, which eventually wound up on the game show ''
The Newlywed Game
''The Newlywed Game'' is an American television game show that puts newly married couples against each other in a series of revealing question rounds to determine how well the spouses know or do not know each other. The program, originally create ...
'' and would become its signature theme song (the main melody of the theme is preceded by Felix Mendelssohn's
''Wedding March'').
1962 songs
Songs written by Chuck Barris
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