Thursday, July 3, 2014

Summertime

"Summertime" is my favorite song in the world. It used to be the song I made my mom sing to me over and over before I went to sleep and then years later when I was 20, I sang it every night for a summer to cabins full of Girl Scout campers. It was the best.

There are a lot of great performances of it -- Janis Joplin, Billie Holiday, my mother obviously. 

Next to good ol' mom, I'm going to have to say Doc Watson's is my favorite. As seen here.



P.S. And, yep, I will definitely be singing it to baby boy!

5 comments:

Melancholy and Menace said...

I'm unable to watch your video, but will look the song up.

I'm guessing you'll be singing it to your own child soon too :)

Peaches McGinty said...

It's a beautiful song, I bet you can't wait to sing it to your baby boy! x x x

Sonya Mann said...

And the livin' is easy...

Midnight Cowgirl said...

Such a great song!

Emmylou said...

This is the first time I've heard this version....l'm digging it. My fave version is the one sung by Colm Wilkinson:)