Chillin' out maxin' relaxin' all cool

So it's finally summertime and we can all start complaining about how damn hot it is... 'Damn you Al Gore, with your stupid global warming'

To help you pass the time inside, where the air-con is, here are some versions of 'Summertime' tunes.

First up it's the Fresh Prince and Jazzy Jeff with 'Summertime'.



And because I know you were pondering what the Baha Men did after they let the dogs out... here they are on Aaron Carter's 'Summertime'.



Apparently one of those 'honeys' in the clip is his sister.
Strangely the allmusic guide gave Aaron album four stars for this album - summing it up with the line 'It's a real testament to the record-makers that, despite Carter's voice, Another Earthquake! remains his best album to date. It's likely not many will hear it, since it's arriving at the end of the movement, not the prime, but years from now it will stand as an overlooked hidden treasure of the teen pop movement of the early 2000s.' Yes, of course.

Back to quality - The Pharcyde & Sublime with... wait for it... 'Summertime'.



The Pharcyde & Sublime track samples a version of it, so here finally is the real thing. George Gershwin's 'Summertime as performed by Ella Fitzgerald, Berlin 1968. This is how it should sound. And after all it is where I got the blog name, so it kinda has to be in the first post doesn't it?



'Summertime' is one of the most covered songs of all time there are also versions by:

Scarlett Johansson
John Coltrane
Sam Cooke
Miles Davis
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Al Green
Janis Joplin
Nina Simone
The Zombies
Mahalia Jackson

But we'll save them for another day...