“The track was recorded three separate times,” he recalls. Realising he was sitting on a song that could ignite his career, Adams stopped at nothing to capture the sound he heard in his head. While Summer Of ’69 had come together fast in Vallance’s basement, recording it proved an arduous process. Bruce sings ‘ from your front porch to my front seat’, and that’s probably where the ‘porch’ reference came from.” I was listening to a lot of Bruce at the time – Bryan was, too – and one of my favourites was Thunder Road. ‘ Standing on your mother’s porch’ was where a bit of Springsteen found its way into the song. "Maybe he was right, but I still prefer ‘ I got a job at the railway yard’. He thought it sounded too much like Bruce Springsteen, so we scrapped it. The ‘railway’ lyric survived our first two drafts of the song, then Bryan’s radar went up.
“I also suggested the lyric ‘ I got a job at the railway yard’, because that’s what my friend Chuck did. Jody and his wife appear in the video for Summer Of ’69, driving away with a Just Married sign on the back of their car. I suggested ‘ Woody quit and Gordy got married’, but Bryan thought ‘Jimmy’ and ‘Jody’ sounded better, and I agreed. The reason I chose 69 is because of the sexual position Bryan AdamsĬo-writer Jim Valance offers more insight: “I remember Bryan and I going back and forth on that line. Jimmy is a drummer who quit the band, and Jody is still my soundman on tour after 25 years.” "The imagery in the song is about romance, nostalgia, being a struggling musician and making love. The reason I chose 69 is because of the sexual position. There is a huge misconception that this song is about 1969, but it’s not. I love the song Night Moves by Bob Seger, which is about getting laid in the summer, and I always wanted to write an answer to that.
“The song is a bit autobiographical,” Adams explains, “but it’s really about summer love and, in my, case being a musician. Adams has announced as much from the stage, and even appears to sing ‘me and my baby in a 69’ during the song’s outro. In reality, Adams’s clean-living image has helped disguise one of the most blatant innuendos of modern rock: the ‘69’ in question doesn’t refer to the year 1969, but to the sexual position.
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