Suddenly Last Summer (song)

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For the film, see Suddenly, Last Summer (film).

Suddenly Last Summer is a song by The Motels released on a 7" single in September of 1983 backed with "Some Things Never Change." The song reached #1 on the U.S. Billboard Album Tracks Chart and #9 on the Billboard Pop Charts in 1983.

Lead singer Martha Davis has said in various radio interviews that the song was written while reflecting on her life and how you know summer is ending when you hear the ice cream truck go by for the last time and you know he won't be back for a while. She also has stated the song is about losing one's virginity. Tennessee Williams, writer of the earlier same-named 1958 off-Broadway one-act play, died in February 1983, the same month The Motels returned to the recording studio prior to releasing the associated album Little Robbers.

The song holds the record for being the only Motels song to reach the #1 position on any music chart. Two bootleg dance versions have been made of the song, one with a techno-like dance beat and another with a semi-tropical beat to it.

The song was featured in a video made for the song in 1983 directed by Val Garay. The video features one of Martha's daughters.

The song was re-released in 1990 on the album No Vacancy:Best of the Motels.

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