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