{"id":1312668,"date":"2019-07-22T07:51:22","date_gmt":"2019-07-22T13:51:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmt.com\/news\/?p=1809309"},"modified":"2019-07-22T07:51:22","modified_gmt":"2019-07-22T13:51:22","slug":"summer-smashes-10-songs-that-sizzled-in-july","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/music-news\/summer-smashes-10-songs-that-sizzled-in-july\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Smashes: 10 Songs That Sizzled in July"},"content":{"rendered":"
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by Edward Morris<\/a><\/span> 52m ago<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

Sure, you remember.<\/p>\n

It was a brain-frying day in July. You were out of school, out of town, out for a good time but a bit out of sorts when that damn song on the radio kept crashing into your consciousness like a SWAT team at the wrong address.<\/p>\n

Or maybe you recall it in a different frame. You were in love, in the mood, in the money and in up to your eyeballs with prepositional phrases when that lovely melody wafted in on a rare breeze and suddenly your heart was floating free of your body.<\/p>\n

Is it coming back to you?<\/p>\n

For reasons as mysterious as black holes or the popularity of Nashville hot chicken, July has been a particularly congenial month for country songs to hit No. 1 on the charts, thus earning incessant airplay and doing their best to lodge forever in your memory like the college loan bills in your mailbox.<\/p>\n

Here are 10 summer-scented examples.<\/p>\n

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