However, the song was already recorded with the "doin' time" lyric, and lead singer Bradley Nowell had recently died of a heroin overdose. In order to release the song using the Gershwin sample, the band had to agree to use the line "summertime" instead of "doin' time". The band originally recorded the song with the lyrics "doin' time and the livin's easy". Mann's version is a live bossa nova version from his album Herbie Mann at the Village Gate. "Doin' Time" samples jazz flautist Herbie Mann's cover of George Gershwin's " Summertime" from the opera Porgy and Bess. This song reached number 87 on the Billboard Hot 100 and number 28 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart. Additional versions appeared on the post- Bradley Nowell compilation album Second-hand Smoke and several bootlegs, including one with Snoop Dogg. It was released as a single on Novemthe disc contained alternate versions of the song by Wyclef Jean and the Pharcyde. The lyrics tell of a cheating girlfriend, whose infidelities and poor treatment of her lover makes him feel like he is in prison. " Doin' Time" is a song by American band Sublime for their self-titled third album.
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