summetime

[The_Captain]

who sang this???? first line is 'summertime and the living is easy'

[enigma]

It's George Gershwin - Summertime

[soozmac]

People who have recorded "Summertime"
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Billie Holiday recorded a version of "Summertime" as did Frank Sinatra. Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong sang the song in duet. Charlie Parker played his version along with many other jazz standards with an orchestra section. Sonny Rollins and Coleman Hawkins performed it as a saxophone duet on the album "Sonny Meets Hawk!", which features a beautiful bass solo by Henry Grimes, which is an opinion, and therefore not a verafiable fact. Both Miles Davis and John Coltrane recorded their interpretations. R&B artist Sam Cooke scored a minor pop hit with his rendition of the song in 1957, when it backed his hit "You Send Me." One of the best known versions is Janis Joplin's recording of a blues-rock version with Big Brother & The Holding Company. Billy Stewart's version became a Top 10 Pop and R&B hit in 1966 for Chess Records. Even seemingly unlikely performers such as the Zombies and Me First and the Gimme Gimmes have made recordings of it, and Sublime's song "Doin' Time" is based on "Summertime". Mark Hamill gargled "Summertime" on The Muppet Show.

[Mortartube]

There are many versions, but probably one of the first of popular versions was sung by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong.

[saxy_jag]

Yep - composed/written in 1933 by George and Ira Gershwin and Du Bose Haywerd for the musical 'Porgy & Bess'. It's been sung/recorded by too many artistes to mention.

[littleoldme]

The most recent hit version was by The Fun Boy Three in 1982.

[Haggisdj]

Best version I ever heard was Charlotte Church singing it at a karaoke in her Mum's pub at the end of a documentary... it was brilliant.