Rhapsody in Blue

This is of a story of how I ended up listening to George Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue" a few minutes ago. Enjoy.

This morning I awoke to the catchy opening riff of the Pixies "Here Comes Your Man" coming from the television. I opened my eyes to find that the movie Stuck On You was just beginning on Comedy Central. It was badly reviewed but I still like it. So anyway, I watched probably two-thirds of that film and then I started my day.

Now let's skip ahead to about ten minutes ago, or maybe a bit longer. I suddenly remembered that I had watched Stuck On You on television this morning so I searched it up on Wikipedia (my favorite website on the internet). On Wikipedia it says that the lead actor "Greg Kinnear's version of 'Summertime' is an almost note-for-note cover of Billy Stewart's version of 'Summertime'". I clicked the link to go the the page for the song "Summertime" and I immediately thought the song was "Summer in the City" by the band Lovin' Spoonful. Well, it isn't but I listened to that song anyway.

Ok, back to the point. I eventually went back to the Wikipedia page for "Summertime". I listened to the Billy Stewart version of the song and remembered it from the movie. Then I went back to the Wikipedia page and read that it was composed by George Gershwin. I remembered George Gershwin from my music class in elementary school. I will now take off into a different story before returning to the original one.

We were studying famous composers for a couple weeks in music class at my elementary school once. I was never really interested in classical music or anything (or music class at all) so I didn't really pay attention. But one day my music teacher played "Rhapsody in Blue" and I found it really good, even though my peers were shrugging it off like the rest of the classical genre. When I listen to the song I can picture things in my head, almost like the song is the soundtrack for a movie. Anyway, George Gershwin is probably the only composer I have respect for (although Frank Zappa did classical music later in his life, and I love that stuff as well).

Now back to the original pointless story. I immediately went to YouTube and listened to "Rhapsody in Blue" and experienced all of that again. That is the story of how I ended up listening to "Rhapsody in Blue" a few minutes ago.

(Note: The two "Summertime" links in this post are different videos, so watch both of them.)