Sweet, soulful, lullaby...
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"Summertime" is an aria composed by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess.
The song soon became a popular and much recorded jazz standard, described as "without doubt... one of the finest songs the composer ever wrote....Gershwin's highly evocative writing brilliantly mixes elements of jazz and the song styles of blacks in the southeast United States from the early twentieth century."
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The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, although the song is also co-credited to Ira Gershwin by ASCAP. Heyward's lyrics for "Summertime" has been called "the best lyrics in the musical theater" by composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim.
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