Summertime and the livin’ is easy… They are lyrics we’ve heard time and time again. While the vessels of those words have consistently changed throughout the decades, they almost always waft to the ...

The clip finds Peck — decked out in a pink cowboy hat and his trademark mask — performing the melancholy ballad in a studio with just his acoustic guitar and some piano accompaniment from Duncan Hay ...

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With George Gershwin’s melancholy melody and DuBose Heyward’s colloquial poetry, the opening aria from ‘Porgy and Bess’ remains, 90 years after its premiere, among the most beloved songs in American ...