Summertime
~ Recording by Helen Merrill
Appears on releases
| # | Title | Length | Track Artist | Release Title | Release Artist | Release Group Type | Country/Date | Label | Catalog# |
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| 1.2 | Summertime | 3:28 | Helen Merrill | ’S Wonderful: The Gershwin Songbook | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Verve (jazz label, aka “Verve Records”, use this for release labels) | 3145139282 |
| 1.2 | Summertime | 3:28 | Helen Merrill | ’S Wonderful: The Gershwin Songbook | Various Artists | Album + Compilation |
| Verve (jazz label, aka “Verve Records”, use this for release labels) | 3145139282 |
| 1.6 | Summertime | 3:28 | Helen Merrill | The Nearness of You | Helen Merrill | Album |
| Verve Music Group (now known as Verve Label Group; not for release label use!) | UCCU-9254 |
| 1.6 | Summertime | 3:29 | Helen Merrill | The Nearness of You + You've Got A Date With The Blues | Helen Merrill | Album + Compilation |
| Phoenix Records (Spanish jazz reissue label) | 131507 |
| 3.6 | Summertime | 3:26 | Helen Merrill | Seven Classic Albums | Helen Merrill | Other + Compilation |
| Real Gone Jazz | RGJCD460 |
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| 1.6 | Summertime | 3:28 | Helen Merrill | The Nearness Of You | Helen Merrill | Album |
| EmArcy | MG 36134 |
Relationships
| bass: | John Friga |
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| guitar: | Peter Rundquist (composer / sound designer / guitarist / engineer / producer) |
| piano: | Dick Marx |
| vocals: | Helen Merrill |
| recording of: | Summertime (American songbook standard from 1935 opera Porgy and Bess) (cover) |
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Related works
Summertime (American songbook standard from 1935 opera Porgy and Bess)
| lyricist: | Dorothy Kuhns (playwright) Ira Gershwin DuBose Heyward |
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| composer: | George Gershwin (composer) |
| 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) |
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| referred to in medleys: | Porgy and Bess Suite (order: 1) |
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| 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 Summer Time Summertime Variations The Bones of You |
| 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) |
| lyrics quoted in: | Doin’ Time |
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