[78-L] Summertime

[David Lennick]

How many hit songs can you get out of an opera that flops? It Ain't Necessarily So did well for Guy Lombardo, Paul Robeson recorded Summertime as "Lullaby (Summertime And the Livin' is Easy"), Billie Holiday recorded it early on, but it wasn't necessarily perceived as a dance tune. And yes, Porgy and Bess was an "opera". Still is.

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> Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 21:26:36 -0400
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> From: djwein at earthlink.net.invalid
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Summertime
> 
> 
> If Artie Shaw could record Irving Berlin¹s ³Suppertime,² about a lynching,
> as a dance band record with vocal,then I don¹t see what would prevent
> ³Summertime² from being done that way. I think the perception of the PORGY
> AND BESS songs being too highbrow may have kept the dance bands from it.
> Certainly Guy Lombardo and Leo Reisman did some of the ³lighter² songs
> from the show in dance band renditions.
> 
> Dave Weiner
> 
> On 6/6/15, 8:01 PM, "Julian Vein" <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk.invalid>
> wrote:
> 
> >
> >Yes, I'm aware of those. What I was drawing attention to was that there
> >was only one commercially issued version by a dance band with a vocal.
> >Was it considered too hot to handle?
> >
> >      Julian Vein
> >
> >========================
> >
> >On 07/06/15 00:52, ola anderstedt wrote:
> >> Bob Crosby also made a recording of Summertime - Hal Kemp and Jerry
> >>Kruger orchestras aswell as Duke Ellington in radio broadcasts and Glenn
> >>Miller also in airchecks.
> >> Ola
> >>
> >> Ola Anderstedt
> >> +46 70 3600574
> >> www.ljudminnen.se
> >>
> >>
> >> 7 juni 2015, Julian Vein <julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk.invalid> skrev:
> >>> Just been watching a programme about "Summertime". I'm familiar with
> >>> many versions by jazz musicians and singers, but could only find one
> >>> commercially issued version by a dance band (up to 1942) with a vocal,
> >>> and that was Jacques Renard.
> >>>
> >>> Julian Vein
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