then out of nowhere i remembered the song was "sunny road" .. google didnt really help. somehow it just came like a flash in the pan after 20 mins of absolute frustration. funny that the brain associated summer with sunny and chose to remember summer and time rather than sunny and road.
and now its even more frustrating because im unable to reverse engineer how it made a) the summer connection in the first place and b) how it landed on the sunny road answer on its own w/o google.
for reference/posterity here it is and simplifying future google searches: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyuL1z2tejs