Summertime


Song Details

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Porgy and Bess (110)  
Music
George Gershwin
Lyrics for this song
DuBose Heyward
Title Variations
Prayer; Summertime; Summertime (The Gershwin Version); Summetime

Recordings


Sound Clips Porgy and Bess - 1940 Original Cast Members
Rhapsody in Blue - 1945 Film Soundtrack
Sound Clips Highlights from Porgy and Bess - 1950 Studio Cast (Risë Stevens and Robert Merrill)
Porgy and Bess - 1953 Studio Cast
Dinah Jams - 1954 Dinah Washington
The Honey Dreamers Sing Gershwin - 1956 The Honey Dreamers
Sound Clips Porgy and Bess - 1956 Studio Cast (Mel Torme and Francis Faye)
Sound Clips The Columbia Album of George Gershwin - 1957 Percy Faith
Sound Clips Porgy and Bess - 1957 Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Sound Clips Porgy and Bess - 1957 101 Strings
Sound Clips Featuring The Hi-Lo's - 1958 The Hi-Lo's
Sound Clips Sothern Exposure - 1958 Ann Sothern
The Four From Porgy And Bess - 1959 Various Artists
Sound Clips The Jazz Soul of Porgy & Bess - 1959 Bill Potts
Sound Clips Porgy and Bess - 1959 Film Soundtrack
Sound Clips Mack the Knife: Ella in Berlin - 1960 Ella Fitzgerald
Porgy & Bess / Show Boat - 1960 Frank Chacksfield and his Orchestra
Sound Clips Show Boat and Porgy & Bess - 1960 Edmundo Ros and His Orchestra
Double Exposure - 1961 Chris Connor and Maynard Ferguson
Sound Clips My Favorite Things - 1961 John Coltrane
The Two Sides of Bob Kole - 1961 Bob Kole
Album Seven By Rick - 1962 Ricky Nelson
Sound Clips Mashed Potatoes and Gravy - 1962 The Ventures
Sound Clips Georgia Brown Loves Gershwin - 1963 Georgia Brown
Oklahoma! / Porgy & Bess - 1963 Broadway Revue Orchestra
Feelin' Good - 1965 Pat Bowie
Baby, Please Don't Go / Summertime - 1966 Legrand Mellon
Sound Clips Cheap Thrills - 1968 Big Brother & the Holding Company
'S Wonderful, 'S Marvelous, 'S Gershwin - 1972 TV Cast
The Music of George Gershwin - 1973 The Wondertones
Sound Clips Songs by George & Ira Gershwin - 1974 Karin Krog
Sound Clips Summertime - 1976 MFSB
Barbara Hendricks Sings Gershwin - 1981 Barbara Hendricks
Sound Clips Gershwin Live! - 1982 Sarah Vaughan
Sound Clips Marni Nixon Sings Gershwin - 1985 Marni Nixon
Sound Clips Kiri Sings Gershwin - 1986 Dame Kiri Te Kanawa
Sound Clips West Side Story - 1989 Royal Promenade Orchestra
Sound Clips Fascinatin' Rhythm: Capitol Sings George Gershwin - 1992 Compilation
Sound Clips 10 on Broadway - 1994 Dennis DeYoung
Sound Clips The Best of the Great American Composers, Vol. 1 - 1996 101 Strings
Evergreens - 1996 Tommy Körberg & Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
The Ruthie Henshall Album - 1996 Ruthie Henshall
Sound Clips Stage Heroes - 1997 Colm Wilkinson
Sound Clips George Gershwin: The 100th Birthday Celebration - 1998 Concert Cast
Sound Clips Red Hot + Rhapsody: The Gershwin Groove - 1998 Red Hot AIDS Benefit Series
Sound Clips Vocal Gershwin & Ellington - 1998 Ruth Nabal
What I Did For Love: Great Songs of Broadway, The Sounds of Today - 1998 Various Artists
Sound Clips Are a Drag - 1999 Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
Sound Clips Broadway Classic - 2000 Lisa Vroman
Sound Clips Time After Time - 2000 Emily Saxe
Sound Clips Tribute to George Gershwin: It's Wonderful - 2000 Barbara Hendricks
American Rhapsody - 2001 Studio Cast
Sound Clips Eternamente: Grandes éxitos de grandes musicales - 2002 Paloma San Basilio
From Madrigal to McCartney - 2002 Cantabile
The Broadway Musicals of 1935 - 2004 Town Hall Broadway by the Year Series
Sound Clips Pie Jesu - 2004 Denise Leigh
Sound Clips Broadway Scot's Way - 2005 Scot Wisniewski
Sound Clips Indigo Women of Song - 2005 Olivia Newton-John
Sound Clips Jazz on Broadway - 2005 Jack Jezzro with the Beegie Adair Trio
Sound Clips The Color Five - 2006 Jacqui Naylor
Porgy and Bess - 2006 London Cast
Showtime - 2006 Sarah Ryan
Sound Clips Unexpected Dreams: Songs from the Stars - 2006 Various Artists
Sound Clips 3 Mo' Divas - 2008 3 Mo' Divas
Encantados - 2008 Paloma San Basilio
Sound Clips My Personal Property - 2008 Christiane Noll
Sound Clips Somewhere - 2008 Eva Cassidy
Sound Clips You Don't Know Jacq - 2008 Jacqui Naylor
Sound Clips Somethin' Like Love - 2009 Steven Pasquale
Don't Give Up - 2010 Ainhoa Arteta
Sound Clips The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess - 2012 Broadway Cast
Sound Clips Impressions - 2012 Chris Botti
Made in Spain - 2012 Patricia Clark & Adalberto Cevasco Quintet
Sound Clips Valentine's Day - 2013 David Ian
Sound Clips Duets - 2014 Kevin Eubanks and Stanley Jordan
Sound Clips Lady Sings the Blues - 2014 Rebecca Ferguson
Sound Clips Porgy and Bess - 2014 Fini Bearman
Sound Clips Sing You to Sleep - 2014 Anika Larsen
Sound Clips West End Switched Off, Vol. 1 - 2014 Various Artists
The Real Thing - 2015 Eric Alexander
Twisted Broadway Vol. 1 - 2017 Blue Jupiter
Sing Happy - 2018 Audra McDonald
When the Curtain Falls - 2018 Carrie Hope Fletcher
Summertime (The Gershwin Version) - 2020 Lana Del Rey
The Lady's Got to Sing - Terri White
West Side Story / Porgy And Bess - Vienna Symphonic Pop Orchestra
Note: this song may also appear on other recordings whose tracks have not yet been indexed.

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