With over 25,000 renditions of it, what are the odds that the one version of the song Summertime that I pick is the one that does not include it’s most famous lyric?
After my post of yesterday, a sharp eared listener advised me that Norah Jones does NOT sing the lyrics “Your Daddy’s rich and your Moma’s good looking” in the video I included. To be honest, I did not really listen all the way thru her take on it so it is my fault for passing along bad info. I compounded my omission by specifically referencing that line in my comments about the song. Recognize now, I should have done a better job ensuring that it was in Norah’s version of the song.
After listening all the way thru Norah’s song and confirming that the line is definitely not there, I then began to wonder how and why she could have omitted it. (Yeah, I know I hear you saying I got wa-a-a-y too much time on my hands but hey, stuff like this amuses me so gimme a break.) Not to go too Freudian on you, but I’m thinking Norah avoided singing that line because it had something to do with her very own relationship, or lack thereof, with her Daddy (click here for story.) I’ll just have to PM her and ask if my theory about this is correct.
But to prove that the line I quoted really is in the song, here then is Billie’s version of the song. I’m a day late, but at least today I’m not a line short. Billie sings the line at the 0:40 mark.