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https://youtu.be/UuoqD7L8NKc Summertime · Charlie Parker April In Paris: The Genius Of Charlie Parker #2 ℗ 1949 Verve UMG Recordings, Inc. Released on: 1957-08-08 Producer: Norman Granz, Upright Bass: Ray Brown, Drums: Buddy Rich, Alto Saxophone: Charlie Parker, Cello: Frank Miller, Harp: Myor Rosen, Oboe: Mitch Miller, Piano: Stan Freeman, Viola: Frank Brieff, Violin: Bronislaw Gimpel, Violin: Max Hollander, Violin: Milton Lomask Author: DuBose Heyward Composer: George Gershwin Composer Lyricist: Ira Gershwin
When is the summer solstice in 2024?
https://youtu.be/XQ2Z1JgmuQ8 Summertime · The Bourbon Street Stompers Men of Steam
In 2024 the summer solstice will occur on Thursday 20 June at 21.51 BST (20.51 GMT).
https://youtu.be/ZC_Ghf3OPnw Summertime · Big Brother & The Holding Company · Janis Joplin Cheap Thrills ℗ Columbia Records, Sony Released : 1968-08-12 Big Brother & The Holding Company, Janis Joplin Composer: George Gershwin Lyricist: DuBose Heyward Lyricist: Ira Gershwin Guitar: Sam Houston Andrew III Guitar, Engineer: James Gurley Drums: Dave Getz Bass: Peter S. Albin Producer: John Simon Engineer: Fred Catero Engineer: Jerry Hochman Engineer: Roy Segal Performance Arranger: Sam Andrew
What is the summer solstice?
https://youtu.be/VZRgiuAXRAs?list=RDVZRgiuAXRAs Summertime · Ella Fitzgerald Pure Ella ℗ 1957 Verve UMG Released: 1998-03-31 Producer: Norman Granz Composer: George Gershwin Author: Ira Gershwin Author: DuBose Heyward
The summer solstice occurs in June in the Northern Hemisphere and marks midsummer: the ‘longest day’ and ‘shortest night’ of the year.
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The Beach Boys: Summertime Blues (1962 Music Video)
On this day, the number of hours of daylight are at their maximum, while the number of hours of night are at their minimum.
https://youtu.be/xJOtaWyEzaI Norah Jones – and Marian McPartland.
Aug. 30, 2003, at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival.Summertime
However, while most people consider the summer solstice to be a day, it is in reality an exact moment in time that falls upon that day. This moment comes when whichever hemisphere you’re in is most tilted towards the Sun.
https://youtu.be/zmv2HWx2Q9c Stray Cats – Summertime Blues (Live In Tokyo)
Astronomical definition of the solstice
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Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald – Summertime
Earth rotates on its axis once each day, producing the cycle of day and night.
https://youtu.be/dXrf83Qyc3w Summertime · Sam Cooke The Best of Sam Cooke ℗ released 1957. RCA Sony Composer: George Gershwin Lyricist: Ira Gershwin Lyricist: DuBose Heyward Producer: Bumps Blackwell Guitar: Clifton White Guitar: Rene Hall Bass Guitar: Ted Brinson Drums: Earl Palmer Mastering Engineer: Bob Ludwig
At the same time, the Earth moves around the Sun on its orbit over the course of a year.
https://youtu.be/ZvpnIOXna0Y Summertime · Billy Stewart By George And Ira: Red Hot On Gershwin ℗ 1966 Geffen Records Released on: 1998-10-27 Producer: Billy Davis Author: Ira Gershwin Author: DuBose Heyward Composer: George Gershwin
However, the axis of rotation of the Earth is not lined up with the axis of motion around the Sun. Instead, it is tilted slightly at 23.44°.
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summertime blues la bamba Brian Selzer
This tilt means during one half of the year the North side of the Earth is tilted slightly towards the Sun and the South is tilted away. The other half of the year the reverse is true.
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Though Eddie Cochran was only twenty-one when he died, he left a lasting mark as a rock and roll pioneer. Cochran zeroed in on teenage angst and desire with such classics as “C’mon Everybody,” “Something Else,” “Twenty Flight Rock” and “Summertime Blues.” A flashy stage dresser with a tough-sounding voice, Cochran epitomized the sound and the stance of the Fifties rebel rocker. But he was also a virtuoso guitarist, overdubbing parts like Les Paul even on his earliest singles and playing with an authority that led music journalist Bruce Eder to pronounce him “rock’s first high-energy guitar hero, the forerunner to Pete Townshend, Jimmy Page, Duane Allman and, at least in terms of dexterity, Jimi Hendrix.” Cochran was also proficient on piano, bass and drums.
https://youtu.be/zdIqME_JLaU Summertime Blues – Eddie Cochran {DES Stereo} 1958
Beneath Cochran’s polite exterior lurked an all-American rebel, and in death he achieved iconic status with several generations of rock and rollers, from the first wave of British Invasion bands to the Sex Pistols (who covered “Something Else”). He even played an indirect role in the Beatles’ formation. In June 1957, Paul McCartney taught John Lennon the chords to Cochran’s “Twenty Flight Rock” at a church picnic where Lennon’s Quarrymen were playing. In the late Sixties, both the Who and Blue Cheer recorded memorable versions of “Summertime Blues,” a timeless anthem of teen disenchantment.
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Dandy Warhols cover Eddie Cochran’s “Summertime Blues”
Cochran was born in Minnesota, raised in Oklahoma and moved to California with his family, where he began his musical career in 1954. Initially, he teamed up with singer-guitarist Hank Cochran (no relation), touring and recording as the Cochran Brothers, who performed in a country-rockabilly vein. Cochran’s musical influences ran more toward the more extroverted likes of Bill Haley, Little Richard and Carl Perkins, and that is direction he pursued as a solo artist in the later Fifties. Cochran found a manager and collaborator in songwriter Jerry Capehart, with whom he worked until his death. Cochran cut his first rock record, “Skinny Jim,” for the Crest label in 1956. His big break came when he a movie producer approached him to appear in the film The Girl Can’t Help It, which featured his frenetic version of “Twenty Flight Rock.” That same year Cochran signed with Liberty Records, where he perfected a sound on “Summertime Blues” and “C’mon Everybody” that featured driving acoustic and electric guitars, handclaps and tambourines, and lyrics that unerringly expressed the alienated teen mindset.
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T – Rex , Summertime Blues , Wembley 1972
Cochran recorded prolifically for Liberty, with mixed results. “Jeannie Jeannie Jeannie,” “Something Else” and “Nervous Breakdown” – for which he is remembered. He was especially revered in Britain, where his influence as a rock and roll original endures to this day.
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LEBRON BROTHERS-SUMMERTIME BLUES
Eddie Cochran released only one album during his lifetime, which was abruptly cut short when the taxi in which he was a passenger crashed en route to a London airport at the end of a British tour. Also injured in the accident were rocker Gene Vincent and Cochran’s fiancée, songwriter Shari Sheeley. The single Cochran released just before his death, eerily enough, was entitled “Three Steps to Heaven.” Ironically, he’d been planning for some time to cut back on touring in order to concentrate on songwriting and studio work. ~SOURCE: http://rockhall.com/inductees/eddie-c…
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Summertime – Billy Strings & Marcus King
At the exact moment that the Northern Hemisphere is most tilted towards the Sun, the Northern Hemisphere experiences its summer solstice. The Southern Hemisphere, by contrast, has its winter solstice.
https://youtu.be/kC4S13jcki4 Who – Summertime Blues (live,1969)
About six months later, the Northern Hemisphere has its winter solstice while the Southern Hemisphere is at its summer solstice.
https://youtu.be/KKT0Kz5VGhw Blue Cheer – Summertime Blues (American Bandstand,1968) Very rare footage from TV programme American Bandstand
These key points in the year, along with the equinoxes, help to determine the seasons on Earth.
https://youtu.be/bcNqDQ48baE THE WHO – Summertime Blues (1975)
On average, summer lasts for about 93.6 days
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Willie Nelson – Summertime
https://youtu.be/8Ce1hAIsPeA Summertime Blues · The Crickets
Something Old, Something New, Something Blue, Something Else ℗ A Capitol Records Release; ℗ 1962 Capitol Records, LLC Released on: 1962-12-04 Producer: Snuff Garrett Composer Lyricist: Eddie Cochran Composer Lyricist: Jerry Capehart
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https://youtu.be/BxN_A8YZZDE KET – Jubilee – Summertime Blues | Otis Taylor Band
https://youtu.be/XaZ1LwYcNx0 Summertime Blues (Mono) · The Ventures Flights Of Fantasy ℗ A Capitol Records Release; ℗ 1968 Capitol Records, LLC Released on: 1968-01-01 Producer: Joe Saraceno Studio Personnel, Engineer: Lanky Linstrot Composer Lyricist: Eddie Cochran Composer Lyricist: Jerry Capehart
https://youtu.be/8DopzOCeKJc?list=RD8DopzOCeKJc Summer Wind (2008 Remastered) · Frank Sinatra Nothing But The Best ℗ 2008 Frank Sinatra Enterprises, LLC Released on: 2008-05-13 Associated Performer, Recording Arranger, Conductor/ Piano: Nelson Riddle Producer: Charles Pignone Composer Lyricist: Heinz Meier Composer Lyricist: Hans Bradtke Composer Lyricist: Johnny Mercer
https://youtu.be/jFgjTY2wsOU Summer Time Blues (Original) · BIG BILL BROONZY Blues For You – Big Bill Broonzy – 3
https://youtu.be/jWBf2J_P7n4 Summertime · Jackie Ross All Blues, Jackie Ross ℗ Lucas Records Released on: 1997-11-09 Author: G. Gershwin Composer: G. Gershwin
https://youtu.be/Kr0tTbTbmVA DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince’s official music video for ‘Summertime’.
https://youtu.be/wEpoBf_lDsM Summertime · Sidney Bechet Jungle Drums
https://youtu.be/re6NCNCkpDc Summertime Blues · The Guess Who This Time Long Ago ℗ 12 Hit Wonder Ltd. Under exclusive license to Linus Entertainment Inc. Released on: 2014-04-15 Composer: John Cowell
https://youtu.be/OMkb2zNyNV8 Summer Blues (Live) · It’s A Beautiful Day San Francisco, The Cry of Flower Power, Vol. 1 (Live) ℗ Westside Released on: 2016-04-18 Artist: It’s A Beautiful Day
https://youtu.be/zPty7ANZdcU Summer Blues · Danny Moss · Buddha’s Gamblers Blues of Summer ℗ nagel heyer records Released on: 2007-04-17 Composer: Danny Moss Composer: Werner Keller
https://youtu.be/56RlUUSXMmw Summertime · Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown Masters Of The Last Century: Best of Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown
https://youtu.be/ac7jhvP_IeI Summertime · Eddie Jefferson The Main Man ℗ Inner City Records
https://youtu.be/uYUqbnk7tCY Billie Holiday – Summertime
https://youtu.be/59hDLv75bb4 eorge ”Harmonica” Smith ~ ”Summertime”&”Blues With A Feeling” Live 1970 Modern Electric Harmonica Chicago Blues 1970 feat. Bacon Fat Buddy Reed lead guitar
https://youtu.be/SDKPoDyVOPc Summertime · Memphis Slim Blues Piano Greats
https://youtu.be/jM_Nb6dpnys?list=RDjM_Nb6dpnys Nina Simone Summertime
https://youtu.be/xHz465gSJS8 Sarah Vaughan “Summertime” (Cascais Jazz, 1973) Sarah Vaughan (voice), Carl Shroeder (piano), John Giannelli (bass) and Jimmy Cobb (drums). Cascais – 1973
https://youtu.be/8Y3FfjESXpU?list=RD8Y3FfjESXpU Summertime · Chet Baker · Radio Orchestra Hanover My Favourite Songs – The Last Great Concert ℗ ENJA GmbH Released on: 1988-04-16 Artist: Chet Baker Trumpet: Chet Baker Composer: George Gershwin Guitar: John Schröder Music Publisher: Manuskript Ensemble: Radio Orchestra Hanover Piano: Walter Norris
https://youtu.be/sAGj8cElOKU Wynton Marsalis Orchestra – Summertime (performed by Olivier Franc)
https://youtu.be/THflqYOqm3A Billie Holiday & Her Orchestra – Summertime
https://youtu.be/EPj22GjTUzw?list=RDEPj22GjTUzw Summertime · Miles Davis Porgy And Bess ℗ Originally released 1958. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment Released on: 1997-03-19 Composer: George Gershwin Lyricist: Dubose Heyward Lyricist: Ira Gershwin Trumpet: Ernie Royal Conductor, Arranger: Gil Evans Trumpet: Johnny Coles Trumpet: Bernie Glow Trumpet: Louis Mucci Trombone: Dick Hixon Trombone: Frank Rehak Trombone: Jimmy Cleveland Trombone: Joe Bennett French Horn: Willie Ruff French Horn: Julius Watkins French Horn: Gunther Schuller Tuba: Bill Barber Clarinet, Flute: Jerome Richardson Clarinet, Flute: Romeo Penque Alto Saxophone: Cannonball Adderley Bass Clarinet, Flute: Danny Bank Bass: Paul Chambers Drums: Jimmy Cobb Producer: Cal Lampley Recording Engineer: Frank Laico
https://youtu.be/nZjLK3h6NAU Modern Jazz Quartet – Summertime
https://youtu.be/NEftw9o1joo?list=RDNEftw9o1joo John Coltrane – Summertime Album: My Favorite Things Year: 1961 Label: Atlantic John Coltrane – soprano & tenor saxophone McCoy Tyner – piano Steve Davis – bass Elvin Jones – drums
https://youtu.be/PTsnXHlGdno Summertime (Live) · The Oscar Peterson Trio Exclusively for My Friends: Mellow Mood, Vol. V ℗ Edel Germany GmbH Released on: 2014-01-31 Artist: The Oscar Peterson Trio Producer: Hans Georg Brunner-Schwer Composer: George Gershwin Music Publisher: Chappell & Co. GmbH & Co. KG
https://youtu.be/5HMBniu9Evg Lana Del Rey – Summertime (The Gershwin Version – Official Video)
https://youtu.be/z0Al8nj5YRQ Ron Carter Trio – Summertime Kenny Barron (p),Ron Carter (b), Herb Ellis (g) Album：” Ron Carter / Jazz.my Romance ” Recorded： New York City, January 4&5, 1994
https://youtu.be/SFuypO3zlP0?list=RDSFuypO3zlP0 Keith Jarrett – piano Summertime
https://youtu.be/8IDl9ocBQvE?list=RD8IDl9ocBQvE Summertime · Molly Johnson Another Day ℗ 2002 Marquis Classics Released on: 2002-01-01 Composer: George Gershwin Composer: Ira Gershwin
https://youtu.be/rLcEwuUYCUg Ramsey Lewis – Summer Breeze
https://youtu.be/Gse-p7rSxZc Summertime Blues – Studio Session Orig. Eddie Cochrane – 1958 Rec – Parsifal Studio, Sesto F.no (Firenze) – October 2017 Video – Leonardo Giannini
https://youtu.be/O5E5bVdsO8E March Mallow – Summertime
https://youtu.be/7OF3LOPAbe4 Prince Piano JAZZ Summertime
https://youtu.be/lQUwxjNfias James Taylor: “Summertime Blues” (Eddie Cochran) (5/30/2023; Frost Amphitheatre, Stanford
https://youtu.be/U0gXqbwk5P0 Janis Joplin Jimi Hendrix Summertime
https://youtu.be/reAZI4cjo3w?list=RDreAZI4cjo3w Janis Joplin – Summertime & Ball and Chain (live in Frankfurt 1969)
https://youtu.be/Y1ZurReQrTU Summertime Blues · Dion Heroes
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“Summertime Blues”, it is said, took Eddie Cochran and Jerry Capehart just 45 minutes to write. Three verses about a teenager cursed by the fact that instead of cruising with his girlfriend, he has to spend the summer working, set to one of rock music’s first great guitar riffs. It was just an E, an A and a B7, but three chords were all Cochran needed.
Cochran’s version of rock’n’roll wasn’t totally wild, so much as just wild enough. His greatest recordings don’t sound untamed and untrammelled, like Little Richard’s and Jerry Lee Lewis’s. They don’t shiver with sex and sin, like Elvis’s. They were songs about average teenage experiences — saving up to buy a second-hand car (“Somethin’ Else”) or hosting a house party when the parents are gone (“C’mon Everybody”) — but they were given an instrumental backing tough enough that Cochran always sounded a breed apart from cleanest-cut of the rockers. The singles were teen rebellion in a form that would excite those unlikely to rebel, and “Summertime Blues” sold, reaching number eight in the US in 1958, though it was first released as a flip side before becoming the hit.
Cochran provided the music for “Summertime Blues”, the toughness; Capehart wrote the lyrics, the reassurance. Any teen could recognise that the song’s narrator is no delinquent. He has a girl, but every time he tries to fix a date, his boss says, “No dice, son, you gotta work late.” But he doesn’t work enough, so his parents won’t lend him their car (Cochran himself sang the echoey bass vocal part). And when he appeals to his Congressman, there’s no succour there: “I’d like to help you, son, but you’re too young to vote.”
After the initial rash of early covers (among them one by The Beach Boys), artists recording “Summertime Blues” tended to approach it from one of two angles. Either they were revisiting the first thrill of rock’n’roll, or they were trying to wrench it into extremity. In the former camp, T Rex reminded everyone that lots of early glam was simply souped-up rock’n’roll. The fascinatingly out-of-time Robert Gordon, who spent the late 1970s trying to build a time machine back to 20 years earlier, played it completely straight, as did Bruce Springsteen. His version is made more compelling by context, though: it was one of the rock’n’roll standards he used to open shows on his 1978 US tour, statements about the optimism and promise of rock’n’roll which would then usually segue into “Badlands”, a song about how promises might turn out to be illusory, and how they have to be fought for.
The Who at Woodstock in 1969, where they played ‘Summertime Blues’ towards the end of their set © Henry Diltz/Corbis
Extremity usually came in the form of ramping up the guitars. The Who first recorded it in the studio in 1967, but that version was tepid compared to the thunderous reading on their Live at Leeds album. Even that paled, though, compared to the version released early in 1968 by the San Francisco band Blue Cheer, who named themselves after a brand of LSD. They made the song into a Mogadon plod, its sheer weight holding the listener pinned to the spot. The extraordinary Japanese band Guitar Wolf approached the song the way they approached everything, by turning everything into the red — rock’n’roll as performance art, almost.
The most extreme version, though, eschewed volume in favour of actual performance art. “Summertime Blues” was the debut single by the experimental pop collective The Flying Lizards in 1978, stripped-back and scratchy, tumbling into chaos, held together by the arch, distanced, cut-glass intonation of Deborah Evans-Stickland. In the contrast between Cochran’s all-Americanism and the Lizards’ art-school irony, the song became absurd, and discomfiting.
Its most discomfiting iteration was not in a cover version, but in a reference. “The Words That Maketh Murder”, a track from PJ Harvey’s 2011 album Let England Shake, was a nightmare about the wars of the first decade of the 21st century. “I’ve seen and done things I want to forget/I’ve seen soldiers fall like lumps of meat,” it opened, horrifyingly. And it closed by alluding to “Summertime Blues”. The final verse of the original found Cochran wondering if he should turn to the ultimate arbiter to settle his disputes: “I’m gonna take two weeks, I’m gonna have a fine vacation/I’m gonna take my problem to the United Nations.”
Harvey’s song ends with her channelling Cochran and at the same time echoing the words of the world leaders who unleashed death in Afghanistan and Iraq: “What if I take my problem to the United Nations?” In a sentence, she captures the curdling of the optimism of the 1950s and a naive faith in uncorrupted institutions, into the blood-soaked realpolitik of the 21st century.
What are your memories of ‘Summertime Blues’? Let us know in the comments section below.
‘The Life of a Song Volume 2: The fascinating stories behind 50 more of the world’s best-loved songs’, edited by David Cheal and Jan Dalley, is published by Brewer’s.
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https://youtu.be/BZYcAGgijuw Summertime · Dizzy Gillespie Cognac Blues ℗ 1953 Decca Records France Released on: 2001-01-01 Composer Lyricist: George Gershwin Composer Lyricist: DuBose Heyward
