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Summertime 3
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Blues R&B, funk, classic rock, and originals
Used to do bands but now prefer to write and produce my own and covers.. I occasionally do retirement gigs with a friend. 50s 60s and 70s harmony rock with acoustics.
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Genre
Acoustic • Cover Songs
Charts
Peak #46
Peak in subgenre #4
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March 18, 2025
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MP3
MP3 7.6 MB • 320 kbps • 3:19
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WAV 33.4 MB
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BPM
90
Story behind the song
"Summertime" is an aria composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, and Ira Gershwin. 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". Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim characterized Heyward's lyrics for "Summertime" and "My Man's Gone Now" as "the best lyrics in the musical theater".
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