Summertime Blues

genre

 * stoner metal

artist

 * Blue Cheer

album

 * Vincebus Eruptum

significance

 * charted at number fourteen, the second most popular after the original by Eddie Cochran

trivia

 * considered important in the creation of metal
 * Unlike the other versions, their version omits the response vocals. Thus it does not have the counterculture lyric "I'd like to help you son but you're too young to vote".