We’ve selected 32 of classic rock’s best summertime songs, and paired them off in 16 first-round duels. Over the next five weeks the field will be repeatedly cut in half by your votes, until we arrive ...

Today marks the 44th anniversary of Janis Joplin’s first gig with Big Brother and the Holding Company. One of rock’s most staggering vocalists, Joplin became another star who left us too soon on ...

To this day, Janis Joplin is one of the crucial figures in the ’60s flower-power movement. With hit songs such as “Me and Bobby McGee,” “Piece of My Heart,” and “Summertime” Joplin planted herself as ...

HIT: Summertime and the living is easy. Fish are jumping and the cotton is high. MISS: June 22 put us on the losing end of daylight. Enjoy summertime; it goes fast. HIT: Best recording of Gershwin's ...

"Summertime," composed by George Gershwin for Porgy and Bess, has become one of the most recorded songs in history, with over 25,000 versions. This video explores its origins, from African-American ...

Or anywhere else, it turns out, which is absolutely everywhere. The song says summer, and the magic of it is that it says so many different summers -- the hot, urban summer or the lazy, rural summer - ...