[78-L] Summertime

[Rodger Holtin iPod]

It takes serious pipes to tackle Summertime, well beyond the grasp of  
big band croonettes. Holiday proved that it can be "done" but at a  
discount.

Yes, it is opera after all.

Sent from my iPod - which explainz any bad typjng


On Jun 6, 2015, at 9:15 PM, David Lennick  
<dlennick at sympatico.ca.invalid> wrote:

>
> 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.
>
> dl
>
>> 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 l 
>> ynching,
>> as a dance band record with vocal,then I don¹t see what would prev 
>> ent
>> ³Summertime² from being done that way. I think the perception of t 
>> he 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 s 
>> ongs
>> 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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