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Summertime

aria from the opera Porgy and Bess, composed by George Gershwin, lyrics by DuBose Heyward
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Summary

Summertime is a musical work/composition[1]. Summertime ranks in the top 2% of musical work composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (3,802 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Composer: George Gershwin[3]
  • Genre: jazz[4], opera[5]
  • Performer: Abbie Mitchell[6], Billie Holiday and her Orchestra[7], Mina[8], Adriano Celentano[9], Sam Cooke[10], Booker T. & the M.G.'s[11]
  • Language of work or name: English[12]
  • Publication date: 1935[13]
  • Lyricist: DuBose Heyward[14], Dorothy Heyward[15], Ira Gershwin[16]
  • Tonality: A minor[17]
  • Title: Summertime[18]
  • Has characteristic: jazz standard[19]
  • Different from: Summertime[20]
  • First line: Summertime and the livin' is easy[21]
  • Form of creative work: aria[22], song[23]
  • Music created for: Porgy and Bess[24]

Product Details

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MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[25]

  • Genre(s): blues, rock[26]

  • Community tags: blues, rock[27]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 986359d8-34ff-3fe2-84fe-155b5f167975[28]

Why It Matters

Summertime has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] Summertime is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Related Entities

Adriano Celentano George Gershwin Ira Gershwin Mina Sam Cooke

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  4. [6] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  7. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [25] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [26] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [27] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [28] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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    Instance of → —
    Language of work or name → English
    Performer → Abbie Mitchell, Billie Holiday and her Orchestra, Mina +3
    Form of creative work → aria, song
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