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DuBose Heyward

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The Weird and the Wonderful CCLXXX: The Half Pint Flask by DuBose Heyward

 

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Summertime-George Gershwin/DuBose Heyward/Ira Gershwin

 

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"Summertime" George Gershwin, Dubose Heyward

 

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Summertime-George Gershwin/DuBose Heyward/Ira Gershwin

 

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SUMMERTIME (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin & DuBose Heyward) - Fingerstyle

Edwin DuBose Heyward was an American author best known for his 1925 novel Porgy. He and his wife Dorothy, a playwright, adapted it as a 1927 play of the same name. The couple worked with composer George Gershwin to adapt the work as the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. It was later adapted as a 1959 film of the same name.