[00:08.67]Welcome to THIS IS AMERICA
[00:10.61]in VOA Special English.
[00:13.28]I'm Steve Ember with Shirley Griffith.
[00:16.30]This week on our program,
[00:18.22]we play some of our favorite
[00:20.25]songs about summer.
[00:21.89](MUSIC)
[00:33.44]If you ask most Americans,
[00:35.42]they would say their favorite season
[00:37.68]of the year is summer.
[00:39.56]The weather is warm.
[00:41.54]They do not have to wear heavy clothes
[00:44.64]to keep warm.
[00:46.23]Young people do not have to go to school.
[00:49.37]They can do many activities outside,
[00:52.98]like playing sports and swimming
[00:56.12]at the beach or the pool.
[00:58.27]They like the sunshine during the day
[01:01.56]and the warm summer nights.
[01:04.20]People have written and recorded
[01:07.36]hundreds of songs about summer.
[01:10.03]These are some of our favorites.
[01:12.64]One of the most famous songs about summer
[01:17.40]is from George Gershwin's opera
[01:20.22]"Porgy and Bess."
[01:22.08]He wrote the music in nineteen thirty-five.
[01:26.60]The opera takes place
[01:29.64]in the southern United States.
[01:31.45]It opens with these words:
[01:34.49]"Summertime and the livin' is easy.
[01:38.99]Fish are jumpin' and the cotton is high."
[01:43.51]Leontyne Price sings the song.
[01:46.77](LEONTYNE PRICE - "SUMMERTIME")
[02:40.74]Here is Billy Stewart's
[02:42.35]version of the same song.
[02:43.76](BILLY STEWART - "SUMMERTIME")
[03:17.49]The nineteen fifties and sixties
[03:20.17]produced many songs about teenagers
[03:22.90]enjoying their summer vacation from school.
[03:26.34]The songs are about having fun,
[03:29.46]swimming in the ocean,
[03:31.33]driving in cars.
[03:33.07]This one is "Summertime,Summertime"
[03:36.36]by the Jamies.
[03:37.71](THE JAMIES - "SUMMERTIME,SUMMERTIME")
[04:39.78]It is summer almost all year long
[04:42.12]in California.
[04:43.94]And it was summer all the time
[04:46.78]for the Beach Boys.
[04:48.26]They sang about their favorite activities,
[04:51.87]like riding the ocean waves on surfboards.
[04:55.81]Here is one Beach Boys song,
[04:58.72]"All Summer Long."
[05:00.71](THE BEACH BOYS - "ALL SUMMER LONG")
[06:11.97]However,for some teenagers,
[06:13.68]summer vacation was not all fun and games.
[06:17.04]Some of them had to work to earn money.
[06:20.18]Eddie Cochran sang about this
[06:23.36]in "Summertime Blues."
[06:25.34]Many other bands and artists
[06:28.69]later recorded this song,
[06:30.99]including the British rock band,the Who.
[06:34.17](THE WHO - "SUMMERTIME BLUES")
[07:33.66]The Lovin' Spoonful was a band
[07:35.55]that did not love summers in the city
[07:38.22]because of the heat.
[07:40.24]They sang: "Hot town,summer in the city.
[07:44.86]Back of my neck getting dirty and gritty."
[07:48.50]And: "All around,
[07:50.84]people looking half-dead,
[07:52.49]walking on the sidewalk,
[07:54.17]hotter than a match head."
[07:56.47]They liked the nighttime better
[07:59.52]when they could dance and have more fun.
[08:02.20]"Summer in the City" was released
[08:05.75]in the summer of nineteen sixty-six
[08:08.85]and was one of the Lovin' Spoonful's
[08:11.86]greatest hits.
[08:13.07](LOVIN' SPOONFUL - "SUMMER IN THE CITY")
[09:19.38]Even though it was hot,
[09:20.52]Sly and the Family Stone
[09:22.69]still found ways to have fun
[09:25.41]in the summertime.
[09:26.54]This song is about the happiness
[09:29.61]that the season promises,
[09:31.35]including going to
[09:32.97]a "county fair in the country sun."
[09:35.58]
[10:54.16]In the nineteen nineties,
[10:55.63]DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince
[10:59.80]produced this hip-hop song
[11:01.82]called "Summertime."
[11:03.56]It is about being with friends
[11:06.43]and having a good time.
[11:08.43](MUSIC:"Summertime." )
[12:05.30]We leave you with a song
[12:06.69]from the movie version
[12:08.21]of the musical "Grease."
[12:10.39]It is about two teenagers
[12:13.05]who meet during their summer vacation
[12:15.77]and fall in love.
[12:17.82]Back at school in the autumn,
[12:20.40]they tell their friends all about it.
[12:23.49]John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John
[12:27.30]sing "Summer Nights."
[12:28.86](MUSIC:"Summer Nights." )
[13:26.14]Our program was written by Shelley Gollust
[13:29.38]and produced by Caty Weaver.
[13:31.81]I'm Steve Ember with Shirley Griffith.
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