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George Gershwin's first hit song was Swanee written in 1919. He is also famous for the first song in his Opera Porgy and Bess, Summertime, which was performed for the first time in 1935. If you include musical pieces, Gershwin is probably best known for Rhapsody in Blue, written in 1924.

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