Summertime

Name: Summertime
Uploaded: 1966-01-01
Duration: 2 min 48 s
Description: Billy Stewart's 1966 recording of George Gershwin's 1934 aria from the opera Porgy and Bess, with lyrics by DuBose Heyward. Stewart's jazz-influenced interpretation became one of many notable versions of what Stephen Sondheim called among "the best lyrics in the musical theater".

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Billy Stewart's 1966 recording of George Gershwin's 1934 aria from the opera Porgy and Bess, with lyrics by DuBose Heyward. Stewart's jazz-influenced interpretation became one of many notable versions of what Stephen Sondheim called among "the best lyrics in the musical theater".