Summer of Love (The B-52's song)

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"Summer of Love"
U.S. 7-inch vinyl single picture sleeve
Single by the B-52's
from the album Bouncing Off the Satellites
B-side	"Housework"
Released	1986
Recorded	1985
Genre	New wave synth-pop
Length	4:02
Label	Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)	Kate Pierson Keith Strickland Cindy Wilson Ricky Wilson
Producer(s)	Tony Mansfield Shep Pettibone
The B-52's singles chronology
"Song for a Future Generation" (1983) "Summer of Love" (1986) "Girl from Ipanema Goes to Greenland" (1986)

"Summer of Love" is a song by American new wave band the B-52's, released as the first single from their fourth studio album, Bouncing Off the Satellites (1986).

The single peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play chart, making it their highest entry up to that point (although 1994's "(Meet) The Flintstones" would reach the same position on the chart).

The original 1985 demo version was released on the band’s 1998 compilation album Time Capsule: Songs for a Future Generation.

The single was reissued in 2017 as a limited edition 12" red vinyl.^[1]