Tom Ewing | Move over summer hits – the 'summer jam' is here

Summer hits were the Black Death of music: infections brought home by hapless travellers. But the summer jam is a different beastBreakout summer hits used to travel a well-established road. A Demis Roussos or Las Ketchup track would jump along the Mediterranean from island to island, port to port, spreading north through Europe before cruelly arriving in Britain just in time for the autumn rains. As it happens, this was also the route taken by the Black Death: novelty summer songs were the origi...

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