The songs of summer

Every August in Portalrubio, the village celebrates its saints' day with a three-day fiesta. Everyone comes back from the cities (Barcelona, Teruel, Valencia, Zaragoza) where they've gone to live, and catches up. There is a chocolatada, card games, a paella feast, and three days of music and dancing all night in the plaza. The bands that play at these fiestas will play pasodobles for the older folks, and the latest pop dance craze that the tweenies have learned to dance to that summer. Some past hits (temas, tubos, hitazos) are Asereje de Las ketchup, Que la detengan by David Civera, Coup de boule (in honor of Zindane's head butt).
This year, a company called CTI (makers of an MP3 player) made an ad making fun of "el hitazo del verano" that you can't escape. The ad's song has beome a hit in its own right.


Here's a website Cuando calienta el sol that has links to all the hits of summers gone by, from 1960-1990, as entries into a memory archive of those years.