CoCo Lee - Summertime

CoCo Lee invited as a special guest to performance classic song "Summertime" (Original by Ella Fitzgerald) in the competition [Project Lotus - The World's 1st Pan-Asian Girl Band] finale round

Visual content download from : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrubPEtH1hs
Audio content download from : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96k776nVi_M
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"Summertime" is an aria composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, although the song is also co-credited to Ira Gershwin by ASCAP.

The song soon became a popular and much recorded jazz standard, described as "without doubt... one of the finest songs the composer ever wrote....Gershwin's highly evocative writing brilliantly mixes elements of jazz and the song styles of blacks in the southeast United States from the early twentieth century." Heyward's lyrics for "Summertime" and "My Man's Gone Now" have been called "the best lyrics in the musical theater" by composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.

Lyrics :
Summertime,
And the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin'
And the cotton is high

Your daddy's rich
And your mamma's good lookin'
So hush little baby
Don't you cry

One of these moment
You're going to rise up singing
Then you'll spread your wings
And you'll take to the sky

But till that moment
There's a'nothing can harm you
With mamma and daddy standing by

Summertime,
And the livin' is easy
Fish are jumpin'
And the cotton is high

Your daddy's rich
And your mamma's good lookin'
So hush little baby
Don't you cry

Category:

Music

Tags:

• CoCo
• Lee
• performance
• classic song
• Summertime
• Original
• Ella Fitzgerald
• Project Lotus
• mime
• inspirational
• broadway