Summertime Guy is a song by Eddie Rambeau

Eddie Rambeau

Eddie Rambeau is an American singer, songwriter, and actor.-Career:While performing in a high-school musical he had written, Rambeau met songwriter and musician Bud Rehak, who went on to become his manager...

 issued by Swan Records

Swan Records

Swan Records was a mid-20th century United States based record label, founded in 1957, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It had a subsidiary label called Lawn Records....

, written by game show pioneer Chuck Barris

Chuck Barris

Charles Hirsch "Chuck" Barris is an American game show producer, film director and presenter best known for hosting The Gong Show and creating The Dating Game. Barris, a survivor of lung cancer, is also an author and claims to have worked for the CIA.-Early career:Barris was born in Oakland, New...

.http://zrosemarie.50webs.com/Ed_web/discs.html Rambeau was to originally debut the song on American Bandstand

American Bandstand

American Bandstand is an American music-performance show that aired in various versions from 1952 to 1989 and was hosted from 1956 until its final season by Dick Clark, who also served as producer...

in 1962, but mere minutes before Rambeau was to perform, he was told the song couldn't be sung, due to Barris being an ABC

American Broadcasting Company

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 employee at the time, owing to concerns of payola

Payola

Payola, in the American music industry, is the illegal practice of payment or other inducement by record companies for the broadcast of recordings on music radio, in which the song is presented as being part of the normal day's broadcast. Under U.S...

, which had become a major music industry scandal at the time. That was also the reason why the record was not played on any ABC-owned radio station weighing the song down so it was not a hit.http://zrosemarie.50webs.com/Ed_web/discs.html

Later, Barris contacted composer Milton DeLugg

Milton DeLugg

Milton DeLugg is an American composer and arranger.-Biography:A talented accordionist, he appeared in short Soundies musicals and occasional movies . He quickly became a successful arranger and composer...

 to arrange an instrumental version of the song. This would eventually end up on the game show The Newlywed Game

The Newlywed Game

The Newlywed Game is an American television game show that pits newly married couples against each other in a series of revealing question rounds to determine how well the spouses know each other. The program, originally created by Nick Nicholson and E. Roger Muir The Newlywed Game is an American...

and would become its signature theme song.