Summertime (American songbook standard from 1935 opera Porgy and Bess)

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Relationships

lyricist:Ira Gershwin (in 1934)
Dorothy Heyward (playwright) (in 1934)
DuBose Heyward (in 1934)
composer:George Gershwin (composer) (in 1934)
publisher:Chappell & Co.
Chappell & Co., Inc. (USA)
Chappell Music Ltd.
Dubose and Dorothy Heyward Memorial Fund Publishing
George Gershwin Music
New Dawn Music
Warner Chappell Music Ltd. (no slash; used 1988–1996)
Warner/Chappell
Warner/Chappell Music Holland BV
Warner/Chappell North America Limited (formerly incorporated as Marmalade Music Ltd., from 1968/09/19–1999/11/09)
Ira Gershwin Music (in 1935)
WB Music Corp. (1929–2019) (from 1935 until 2019-05-28)
WC Music Corp. (from 2019-05-28 to present)
lyrics page:https://genius.com/Barry-manilow-summertime-lyrics [info]
https://genius.com/George-gershwin-summertime-lyrics [info]
SecondHandSongs:https://secondhandsongs.com/work/4681 [info]
Wikidata:Q844046 [info]
referred to in medleys:Porgy and Bess Suite (order: 1)
later translated parody versions:Tschibuti
later translated versions:C'est l'été
Sommartid
Summa is
Summertime (French lyrics)
version of:Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene I. “Summertime” (Clara)
is the basis for:And the Living Is Easy
Doin’ Time
Summer Time
Summertime Variations
The Bones of You
光のない部屋
arrangements:Summertime (arr. for guitar by 武満徹)
Summertime (catch-all for arrangements)
Summertime (Rick Wakeman arrangement)
Summertime (for brass band, arr. Snell)
Summertime (Kahil El’Zabar arrangement)
Summertime (arr. Dickson‐Place, for TBB a cappella)
music quoted in:Fame
lyrics quoted in:Doin’ Time

Recordings

DateTitleAttributesArtistLength
recordings
1936-07-10SummertimeBillie Holiday and Her Orchestra2:55
1936-07-10SummertimeBillie Holiday2:59
1936-07-10SummertimeBillie Holiday and Her Orchestra2:53
1936-07-10SummertimeBillie Holiday and Her Orchestra2:56
1936-07-10SummertimeBillie Holiday and Her Orchestra?:??
1936-07-10SummertimeBillie Holiday2:56
1936-07-10SummertimeBillie Holiday & Her Orchestra2:55
1936SummertimeBillie Holiday and Her Orchestra2:56
1938-07-08Summer TimeBing Crosby with Matty Malneck and His Orchestra3:05
1938-07-08SummertimeBing Crosby3:07
1938-10-21SummertimeinstrumentalBob Crosby and His Orchestra3:08
1938-12-11Summertime (radio broadcast, 1938-12-11)Fats Waller1:12
1939-04-25Summertime (1939-04-25, mx. WM-1022-A)Jerry Kruger & Her Orchestra3:01
1939-06-08SummertimeinstrumentalSidney Bechet4:04
1939-06-08SummertimeinstrumentalSidney Bechet Quintet4:13
1939-06-08Summertime (1939-06-08, mx. GM-533-14)instrumentalSidney Bechet Quintet4:12
1939-06-08SummertimeinstrumentalSidney Bechet4:12
1941-03-28SummertineinstrumentalJoe Sullivan3:15
1943-11-08Summertime (take 1, false start)instrumentalDuke Ellington & His Orchestra0:27
1943-11-08Summertime (take 2)instrumentalDuke Ellington & His Orchestra2:58
1943-12-11Summertime (live, 1943‐12‐11: Carnegie Hall, Midtown Manhattan, NY, USA)liveDuke Ellington3:59
1944-10-20SummertimeMildred Bailey2:58
1944SummertimeGlenn Miller2:16
1945-01-17SummertimeinstrumentalBoyd Raeburn & His Orchestra2:51
1945-04-17SummertimeArtie Shaw and His Orchestra4:26
1945-10-26Gershwin Medley: The Man I Love / Summertime / I've Got Plenty of Nuttin' / It Ain't Necessarily Soinstrumental, live and medleyArt Tatum4:25
1945-12-30SummertimeMildred Bailey2:53
1945SummertimeArtie Shaw4:26
1946-02-20SummertimeGene Krupa and His Orchestra2:43
1946-04-10Porgy & Bess Medley: Summertime/It Ain’t Necessarily So/ Bess, Oh Where’s My Bess?cover and medleyFrank Sinatra5:07
1947-04-05SummertimeliveCharlie Shavers5:03
1947SummertimeEthel Waters3:06
1947SummertimeAl Hibbler2:40
1947SummertimeMaxine Sullivan2:58
1949-04-07SummertimeTommy Dorsey & His Orchestra3:00
1949-05-14Summertimeinstrumental and liveSidney Bechet3:41
1949-06-28SummertimeinstrumentalGeorge Shearing3:12
1949-10-08Summertimeinstrumental and liveSidney Bechet3:35
1949-11-30Summertimecover and instrumentalCharlie Parker2:44
1949-11-30SummertimeinstrumentalCharlie Parker2:48
1949-11-30SummertimeinstrumentalCharlie Parker with Strings2:46
1949-11-30SummertimeinstrumentalCharlie Parker2:52
1949-11-30SummertimeinstrumentalCharlie Parker with Jimmy Carroll and His Orchestra2:46
1949-11-30SummertimeinstrumentalCharlie Parker with Strings2:49
1949-11-30Summertime (New York, November 30, 1949)instrumentalCharlie Parker2:49
1949-12-21SummertimecoverSarah Vaughan3:16
1949-12-21SummertimecoverSarah Vaughan acc by Joe Lippman Orchestra3:13
1949-12-21Summertime (1949-12-21, mx. CO-42532)coverSarah Vaughan3:14
1949-12-22SummertimeinstrumentalRex Stewart with Graeme Bell and his Australian Jazz Band2:32
1950-05-12SummertimeinstrumentalErroll Garner3:16
1950-05-23Summertimeinstrumental and liveCharlie Parker3:30
1950-06-06Summertime (Tuesday June 6, 1950)instrumentalCharlie Parker with Strings2:49
1950-06 – 1950-07Bewitched / Summertimeinstrumental, live and medleyCharlie Parker4:51
1950-06 – 1950-07Bewitched / Summertimeinstrumental, live and medleyCharlie Parker4:52
1950-07-04SummertimeinstrumentalDon Byas Et Ses Rythmes?:??
1950-07-04SummertimeinstrumentalDon Byas2:51
1950-07-04SummertimeinstrumentalDon Byas Quartet2:48
1950-07Gershwin Medleyinstrumental, live and medleyArt Tatum4:03
1950Medley 1: Bewitched, Bothered & Bewildered / Summertimeinstrumental, live and medleyCharlie Parker5:01
1951-08-01SummertimeinstrumentalWynton Kelly3:07
1951Gershwin Medleyinstrumental and liveArt Tatum4:20
1952-01-03SummertimeinstrumentalErroll Garner3:02
1952-01-03SummertimeinstrumentalErroll Garner3:02
1952-01-31SummertimeliveSidney Bechet & Claude Luter et son orchestre3:36
1952-03-12SummertimeinstrumentalSidney Bechet & Claude Luter et son orchestre3:18
1952-03-12Summertimecover and instrumentalSidney Bechet with Claude Luter et son orchestre3:18
1952-03-12Summertimeinstrumental and liveSidney Bechet3:24
1952-03-12Summertimeinstrumental and liveSidney Bechet3:39
1952-04-06SummertimeDizzy Gillespie4:18
1952-10-18SummertimeBill Coleman2:03
1952-10-28SummertimeJack Parnell & His Orchestra2:45
1953-09-25SummertimeliveLionel Hampton Orchestra4:07
1953-12-31 – 1954-12-31Summertimeinstrumental and liveTeddy Wilson Quartet6:13
1954-03-19Summertimeinstrumental and liveSidney Bechet3:05
1954-05-12SummertimeinstrumentalFrank Foster3:55
1954-05-12Summertime (alt. take)instrumentalFrank Foster3:55
1954SummertimeinstrumentalBernard Zacharias et ses solistes3:52
1955-08-15SummertimeinstrumentalStan Getz6:08
1955-09-22SummertimeChet Baker4:16
1955-10-24SummertimeinstrumentalChet Baker Quartet4:12
1955-10-24SummertimeinstrumentalChet Baker4:15
1955-10-24SummertimeinstrumentalChet Baker Quartet4:16
1955-10-24SummertimeinstrumentalChet Baker3:25
1955-10-24SummertimeinstrumentalChet Baker Quartet4:15
1955-10-24SummertimeinstrumentalChet Baker4:16
1955-10-24SummertimeinstrumentalChet Baker4:13
1955-10-24SummertimeinstrumentalChet Baker4:16
1955-10-24SummertimeinstrumentalChet Baker4:12
1955SummertimeChet Baker Quartet4:13
1956-06-06SummertimeinstrumentalLars Gullin med Gösta Theselius orkester5:25
1956-07-10SummertimeinstrumentalSonny Criss4:05
1956-07-10SummertimeinstrumentalSonny Criss4:02
1956-10-16Ballad Medley: I’m Through With Love / The Nearness of You / Moonlight in Vermont / SummertimeinstrumentalDizzy Gillespie & Roy Eldridge8:42
1957-01-14SummertimeinstrumentalArt Pepper7:20
1957-01-14SummertimeinstrumentalArt Pepper7:20
1957-02-12SummertimeinstrumentalJimmy Smith4:31
1957-02-12SummertimeinstrumentalJimmy Smith4:33
1957-02-28 – 1957-03-02SummertimecoverDakota Staton2:09
1957-04-01SummertimeinstrumentalArt Pepper Quartet6:31
1957-04-01SummertimeinstrumentalArt Pepper6:32
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