Excerpted from George Gershwin's opera, "Porgy and Bess," Summertime tells the story of a mother comforting her child in the heat of South Carolina while life speeds on around them.
Sarah Vaughan's rendition of the song is an excellent display of the lower end of her incredible vocal range, which encompassed virtually the entire female range.
Vaughan's rich and powerful vocals won her an early amateur contest at the Apollo Theatre at age 18 and launched her career as a professional singer during which she would work with jazz greats such as Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, and Charlie Parker.
Born: Sarah Lois Vaughan, March 27, 1924, Newark, NJ; Died: Sarah Vaughan "The Divine," April 3, 1990, Los Angeles, CA.
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