Pat Dollard | Young Americans

Every now and then you’re sitting there, completely relaxed, in the right mood, and some band or singer comes on, plays a song live on VH1 Classic, or some other show, and you sit there enjoying every note, every word, just enjoying the whole song and at the very end you just go, “Wow…that was so cool.”

Try watching Janis Joplin sing Gershwin’s “Summertime” in the studio recording session sometime, and you’ll know what I mean. Hell, I’ll throw that video on the end here.

But Krauthammer, Kristol, & Hume were talking about the surge and the Iraq War as a campaign issue and this and that, and I just sat there thinking, “These guys are pretty sharp. They nailed this one down.”

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Now, after you comment or whatever, just sit back a minute, turn up your speakers a little, and enjoy this video. It is the studio recording of Gershwin’s “Summertime”…the guy playing lead guitar is an old family friend named Sam Andrew, he was our neighbor when my folks were hippies in Marin County in the late 60’s/early 70’s, he’s great on the guitar here.