As the First Lady of Song, Ella Fitzgerald, told us with those words, summer is a time when things slow down a touch. Personal time raises a notch over professional time. Childhood memories flood back ...

SANTA ANA, Calif. — Summertime, and the listening is easy, songs are rockin’ and the volume is high. Which is to say, it’s time to talk about songs of summers past. Songs of the summer anchor us in a ...

Who can forget George Gershwin’s memorable song “Summertime and the Living is Easy”? Summers meant picnics in the park, vacations, camping, lounging at the pool, jumping in the lake and reading ...

“Summertime and the living is easy. Fish are jumping and the corn is high ...” Actually, I think the song says the “cotton” is high, but in Illinois, it ought to be that very noble plant of ours. A ...