Summertime

Summer's up, bang bang, kiss kiss.

Track five is Del Rey's cover of "Doin' Time." Originally performed by Sublime, and itself a re-imagining of George Gershwin's "Summertime," the track is already steeped in American musical lineage.

But when Del Rey takes the mic, she reshapes it entirely in her own image, sun-soaked, slow burning, and dangerously seductive At first glance, Doin' Time seems like a playful inclusion, a breezy reggae-influenced break in the album's emotional intensity.

But Del Rey's decision to include it on a record so deeply concerned with failed relationships and the myth of American romance reveals its thematic weight.

It's California in decline: beautiful, restless, haunted by its own mythologies.

Now, before I play Del Rey's cover, here's a bit of Sublime's original, because like me, you probably haven't heard it.

Summertime and the livin's easy.

Bradley's on the microphone with Ras MG.

Singles that were released on September the 7th include in 1957 when Sam Cooke did a twofer.

He released Summertime and You Send Me.

We're going to start with Summertime.

Actually, both songs were recorded at the exact same Hollywood session, but this slowed down version of the George Gershwin standard was originally supposed to be the A-side of his debut single.

However, disc jockeys actually preferred You Send Me.

Didn't matter though, Summertime still on its own managed to hit number 81 on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart.

Meanwhile, the actual A-side, You Send Me, is his classic debut single on Keen Records and it launched his solo career and helped to pioneer the soul music genre.

Hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, also hit number one on the R&B records chart as they called it back then.

can harm And mommy standing by.

Sam Cooke's interpretation of the American Songbook standard, Summertime, written by DuBose Hayward and the Gershwins.

Sam's cover comes from 1958.

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Gras,

people are friendly whenever I'm with you, the summertime down south.

Yeah, say, NYU Brown, I think Remember how we met the night it rained? You turned and smiled, I knew right then I loved it down south in the Big Easy Summertime, people are friendly whenever I'm with you Summertime down south

We'd save gallon buckets from the grocery store And wait to hear the slam of the front screen door When Grandma came in late July We'd hang around the house till twilight time Go down the side of 052 Where the baby's breath and the brambles grew Filling up those buckets with the sweetest of wounds Growing fat and ripe underneath that sun Oh, sometimes I wish I could go home And hold all the people I've lost Forget about all that's gone wrong I can see the stains on my fingertips Still taste that sugar on my lips Catching lightning bugs to a cricket song And falling asleep with the box fan on But I couldn't hold on to my innocence And I can't let go of the days I've spent Being loved safe and young and free Made me who I was supposed to be But oh, sometimes I wish I could go home And hold all the people I've lost Forget about all that's gone wrong What I wouldn't give for one more blackberry summer I'd tell her again how much and how long I love her What I wouldn't give for one more blackberry summer

Time out with Johnny Saag at the console of the Hammond Electric Organ.

Johnny opens this evening's program with an excerpt from Porgy and Bess, Summertime.

Summertime.

THE END THE END THE END Thank you.

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And we never broke that.

We never said, you know what? Like, what if we just stuck with like George and Ira Gershwin's Summertime? The way it was written for Porgy and Bess to be written in the 1920s.

And nobody was like, you know what? I'm going to add some horns to it.

Or I'm going to add this.

Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? Ooh.

Summertime And the living is easy Fish are jumping And the cotton is high Oh, your daddy's rich And your ma is good looking So hush, little baby, don't you cry.

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wings and take To the sky and to the moon love.

Miles Davis gave us the 1958 classic recording that he did with Gil Evans for Gershwin's Porgy and Bess.

We heard the tune Summertime, and we followed that up with Stephen Colbert reading The Summer Day, which is Mary Oliver's poem.

And then we heard Jen Hsu do the vocal version of Summertime.

But the judges are happy to see that Connie is back to her normal self, although Zoe can tell that she's getting vocally tired and is worried that Connie is going to burn herself out.

Abby follows and is singing Summertime from Porky and Bess to get her out of her normal register.

Should she be singing this? Side note, Andrew makes a note that this version of Summertime was arranged by the show's musical director, Nigel Wright, and it was popular in the U.S.

So I looked up to see about this version, and it turns out that this version that was arranged by Nigel Wright was recorded by a winner of American Idol Season 3, Fantasia Barrino, which is a fun little connection between these two shows.

But that's just me.

I really like Summertime.

It's seriously like such a perfectly crafted song that even if you sing it is like a bass hit, it's solid if you sing it right.

That being said, Abby don't sing it right.

But what really hooked Buddy was the vibe of the track.

It was an instrumental jazz jam that originally came from improvising over Gershwin's Summertime.

A lot of people don't realize that.

[instrumental music] Buddy immediately thought, "If we add lyrics to this, it could be a huge pop hit", and that's exactly what happened Spooky started out as Mike Shapiro's instrumental, but once JR Cobb heard it, he added lyrics, building the song into the classic we all know and love.

It was written back in 1934 by George Gershwin and appeared first on Broadway in the play Porgy and Bess.

It's called Summertime.

[singing]

[singing] [upbeat jazz music]

Charlie Parker, and it's called Relaxin' at Camarillo.

And before that, we did Ella-- Angelique Cujo and her version of Summertime, and it was mighty good, don't you think?

The climate that we're operating under has everyone on the defensive.

You see a person, and you automatically put them in a box and say, "Well, this is what this person should be like."

Ashton, excuse me.

So in that set-off was Terry Reid with his cover of Summertime Blues from the Bang Bang, You're Terry Reid album, released on the Epic label back in 68.

That album was produced by Mickey Most, who worked with such bands as The Animals, The Nashville Teens, Suzy Quatro, and Donovan.

Love that album from a British rocker that is not well-known outside of the British Isles.

They're standing by, so don't cry.

They're standing by, don't cry.

Summertime, summertime, summertime.

The living is, mm-hmm, it is easy.