Summer Nights

Um, debuted the Hot 100 number at 65, and then 10 weeks later, number one.

Um, You're The One That I Want was number one for nine weeks in Great Britain, and Summer Nights was number one for seven weeks.

Uh, they're the most, in terms of length and number, the, the...

No duo in history of England had, uh, two number ones go that long.

Not Hall & Oates, not Simon and Garfunkel, nobody.

John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John.

[sings] ♪ Oh, summer nights ♪ [sings] Um, couple of Grease thoughts before we get to the, you know, [coughs] just the insane success of it.

Uh, by the way, Alan Carr wanted Elvis and Ann-Margret at one point to, to be the leads in Grease.

But talking of monkeys' cocks,

we get the first song, Summer Nights.

A banger.

I'm going to say this after every song, I think.

In some way ripped off.

Is it? Yeah.

What's the Simon Love song that is a rip-off of Summer Nights? So it's the Love's She'll Break Your Heart Again.

Originally it was a song called She'll Break Your Heart.

You Needed Me.

Summer Nights.

That's the, you know...

Olivia.

And it doesn't stop there.

From summer rain to summer wind, from summer love to those lazy summer nights, we'll make sure that every song meets our theme of the day.

Glad you could drop in.

Now, some songs just sound like summer, and we're going to spend the next set chasing that feeling.

And this one's especially for the boomers out there.

A last blast of summer sounds that just might bring back a memory or two.

We got the Beach Boys, war, and a trip back to those unforgettable summer nights from Greece.

Don't go anywhere.

Peter Brady.

Summer nights,

Olivia and John Travolta.

Linda from Queens.

What a great sing-along right there.

Let's get some flashback facts now.

Summer Nights, Olivia and John Travolta from 1978.

Let's get those facts from Astro now.

And

then you look up and they're shuddering along the bleachers singing about summer nights.

They're like, here they go again.

And there's a great end stance from Danny.

Go on then, what's number three?

Summer Nights, John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John, of course, from Grease.

Check out our early episode on Grease if you want to hear about that particular movie.

Yes.

Yeah.

And he brought Grease back too because Grease was a Broadway production and he brought those songs in there, the other songs like Summer Nights and Hopelessly Devoted.

You're

the one that I want.

Oh my God

... or Summer Nights from Grease.

I wanna pu- I wanna punch him in the face, brother.

Like, it's, it...

[laughs]

That's the mournful version of the Entertainment Tonight theme.

How did you go from Summer Nights to the John Tesh, uh, Entertainment Tonight theme?

'Cause I thought about the, the, uh, like the, the similar sentiment of Entertainment Tonight playing a mournful version of their theme while they were showing somebody who had recently died-