The Motels were a new wave band out of L.A. in the early 1980s. Their third album All Four One (1982) was released right into the early days of MTV. That year, Davis, then 31, won the "Best Performance in a Music Video" award at the American Music Awards for her performance in the "Only the Lonely" video. The Motels quickly released a fourth album Little Robbers (1983), and its first single "Suddenly Last Summer" hit No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100.
As Davis has shared across several interviews, "Suddenly Last Summer" came together slowly. She clocks the song's first spark back to one sunny day in her Berkeley backyard during the early '70s. Davis was going through a particularly trying time. Both her parents had died—her mom by suicide and her dad from illness—and she was young, single mom raising two daughters. When a sudden crisp wind kicked up followed by the music from the ice cream truck, she felt that twinge of melancholy. It was a knowing—that summer, like many things, will come to an end, and change will come.
About ten years later in L.A., the song finally came together in an early-morning burst: "Three o’clock in the morning I am awakened by [sings melody], it woke me up, and the song came out."
In addition to hitting No. 9 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1983, "Suddenly Last Summer" topped the Billboard Rock Top Tracks chart.
Ten years of a feeling, one sleepless night, and a melody that arrived in its own time—that's "Suddenly Last Summer."
Listen to "Suddenly Last Summer" by The Motels:
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