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. Summertime: .

. …and this is my favorite version. Janis Joplin, 1968, belting it out and making it her own… . . Interesting “facts” from Wikipedia: "Summertime" was composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera “Porgy and Bess.” The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. It is sung multiple times throughout Porgy and Bess, first by Clara in Act I as a lullaby and soon after as counterpoint to the craps game scene, in Act II in a reprise by Clara, and in Act III by Bess, singing to Clara's baby. . It is widely believed that "Summertime" ties with the Beatles' "Yesterday" as one of the most often covered songs in popular music, with an estimated 2,600 different versions recorded. However, a far greater number of recordings of the former exist: as of 27 march 2008, 14.27 GMT, an international group of collectors of recordings of Summertime known as "The Summertime Connection," knows of at least 22,350 public performances, of which 15,801 have been recorded. Of those, the group has 10,263 full recordings and about 1,100 samples and incomplete recordings in its collection. . The original song is an opera-aria, sung by a soprano with a symphonic orchestra. The Summertime Connection has renditions in such different styles as ska, South American (all rhythms), rock, house mixes in various forms, all jazz styles from dixieland to bop and so called 'improvised music'. Every conceivable instrument has been used: from garden hose (Noguru Hata on Dutch TV), cow horn (Bengt Jonsson) and singing saw: (Matthew Beckman) to traditional Korean flute (Lee Sang Gang), theremin (Lydia Kavina), carillon (Piet van den Broek), xaphoon (Arthur Mary on June 4, 2007 in Budapest), hydraulophone (water-pipe-organ-flute) (the inventor of this instrument Steve Mann on June 24, 2007 on Loch Ness) and handbells (Raphsody). . Every style and mode of singing has been recorded: from a cappella and doo-wop to large mixed choirs, and also a rendition in a swimming pool (for the extra resonance).