Songs

Summertime

Also known as:
Zumertsayt
Author:
Gershwin, Ira
Author:
Cahan, Mendy
Composer:
Gershwin, George
Composer:
Gershwin, George
Genre:
Opera/Lullaby
Subject:
Summer/Seaon/Father/Mother

Recordings

On album:
N-005(a) (Cantares De Madre Susana Naidich Orqueta De Camara)
Track ID:
14715
Conductor:
RovIra, Eduardo
Vocal:
Naidich, Susana
Artist:
Camara Orchestra
First line:
Summertime, and the livin is easy,
Track comment:
From "Porgy and Bess"
Language:
English
Style:
Operatic
On album:
K-057(a) (Para Ustedes... Zivia Klein — צביה קלײן)
Track ID:
14716
Translator,Yiddish:
Tsesler, Shmuel — צעסלער, שמואל
Vocal:
Klein, Zivia — קלײן, צביה
Arranger:
Levy, Alberto
First line:
Sumertseyt, un dos lebn iz gringer, fishlekh shpringen...
First line (Yiddish):
זומערצײַט, און דאָס לעבן איז גרינגער, פֿישלעך שפּרינגן...
Audio:
Freedman Sound Archives at Penn Libraries (temporarily unavailable)
Track comment:
From "Porgy & Bess"
Language:
Yiddish
Style:
Concert
On album:
C-060(a) (Mendy Cahan and Der Yiddish Express/ Yiddish Fever — מענדי קאַהן און דער ייִדיש־עקספּרעס\ ייִדעש פֿיבור)
Track ID:
41805
Vocal/Yiddish Adaption:
Cahan, Mendy
Bass Guitar:
Segal, Yankele
Drums:
Fried, Oren
Artist:
Der Yiddish Express
First line:
Zumertsayt, sara lebn, a mekhaye, katshkelekh shvimen, un a royte zun fargeyt,
First line (Yiddish):
זומערצײַט, סאַראַ לעבן, קאַטשקעלעך שווימען, און אַ רויטע זון פֿאַרגייט, דײַן טאַט
Language:
Yiddish
Style:
Folk/Jazz/Fusion
Length:
3:57
On album:
R-016(g) (A..Caravan..Stars Featuring Seymour Rechtzeit & Molly Picon)
Track ID:
23637
Yiddish Adaptation:
Kressyn, Miriam — קרעסן, מיריאַם
Vocal:
Rechtzeit, Seymour — רעכצײַט, סימאָר
First line:
Shlof mayn kind, got geshankt in zayn himl, in kholem...
First line:
די אמתה ליבע, זי לעבט איבער אַלעס, זי איז אַ מתּונה פֿון גאָט,
Track comment:
From the opera "Porgy & Bess"
Language:
Yiddish/English