Summertime Video & Audio
“Summertime,” Anne Brown
Brown played Bess in the Broadway premier of Porgy and Bess.
“Summertime,” Diahann Carroll
This rendition is from the 1959 Otto Preminger production of Porgy and Bess.
“Summertime,” Ella Fitzgerald
The First Lady of Song gave the song a jazz twist in this performance.
"Summertime,” Billie Holiday
Lady Day recorded this Dixielandish rendition less than a year after the opera premiered in 1935.
“Summertime,” Janis Joplin
Big Brother and the Holding Company recorded the song for their 1968 album, Cheap Thrills.