File:"Summer in the City" by the Lovin' Spoonful 1966.mp3

"Summer_in_the_City"_by_the_Lovin'_Spoonful_1966.mp3 ‎(MP3 audio file, length 16 s, 80 kbps overall, file size: 159 KB)

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Description	"Summer in the City" by the Lovin' Spoonful 1966
Author or copyright owner	Authors: John Sebastian, Mark Sebastian and Steve Boone; the copyright holder is BMG Heritage Records
Source (WP:NFCC#4)	The 2003 CD remaster of Hums of the Lovin' Spoonful
Date of publication	July 4, 1966
Use in article (WP:NFCC#7)	The Lovin' Spoonful
Purpose of use in article (WP:NFCC#8)	To explicate with an audio sample what cannot be conveyed with prose alone: The musicologist Ian MacDonald describes "Summer in the City" as one of "many futuristic singles" and "cutting-edge pop records" to be released in 1966. He describes it as representative of a time when songs had became difficult or impossible to recreate onstage. (MacDonald, Ian (2007). Revolution in the Head: The Beatles' Records and the Sixties (Third ed.). Chicago: Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-55652-733-3. pp. 202n3, 214n1). The author Richie Unterberger describes the song as "hard rock" which differed from the Lovin' Spoonful's usual image of "sunshine and light". He praises the shifting between "the minor-keyed verses, decorated by stuttering dramatic keyboards", and the "merrier extended bridge" in its major mode. He describes the addition of sound effects, made up of honking horns and jackhammer sound effects, to be a "particularly inventive addition". (Unterberger, Richie (2002). Turn! Turn! Turn!: The '60s Folk-Rock Revolution. San Francisco: Backbeat Books. ISBN 0-87930-703-X. p. 212) and (Unterberger, Richie. "Summer in the City – The Lovin' Spoonful". AllMusic. Archived from the original on August 11, 2021. Retrieved February 5, 2024)
Not replaceable with free media because (WP:NFCC#1)	The software or website from which the screenshot is taken is copyrighted and not released under a free license, so creation of a free image is not possible.
Not replaceable with textual coverage because (WP:NFCC#1)	Prose alone would not serve the same encyclopedic purpose as prose with an accompanying audio sample.
Minimal use (WP:NFCC#3)	The file is 16.221 seconds long with fade-in and fade-out, which is less than 10% of the original 2 minutes and 45.068 seconds.
Respect for commercial opportunities (WP:NFCC#2)	The use of a low resolution screenshot from software or a website will not impact the commercial viability of the software or site.
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current	15:00, 5 February 2024		16 s (159 KB)	Tkbrett (talk \| contribs)	Uploading an excerpt from a non-free work using File Upload Wizard

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Format	Bitrate	Download	Status	Encode time
Ogg Vorbis	110 kbps		Completed 15:00, 5 February 2024	1.0 s