Songs Written by George GershwinTop Songs / Chart Singles Discography

George Gershwin (; born Jacob Gershwine; September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose compositions spanned jazz, popular and classical music. Among his best-known works are the songs "Swanee" (1919) and "Fascinating Rhythm" (1924), the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American in Paris (1928), the jazz standards "Embraceable You" (1928) and "I Got Rhythm" (1930) and the opera Porgy and Bess (1935), which included the hit "Summertime". His Of Thee I... [more on Wikipedia]

Top songs: #1: Doin' Time - #2: Doin' Time - #3: It Ain't Necessarily So - #4: The Age of Consent (all cuts) - #5: Summertime

Ricky Nelson

03/1962

#5 Summertime
Ricky Nelson

from Album Seven by Rick

4 pts

as Rick Nelson
B side to Young World
[Imperial 5805]
written by George Gershwin

, Ira Gershwin & DuBose Heyward

Bronski Beat

12/1984

#3 It Ain't Necessarily So
Bronski Beat

from The Age of Consent

34 pts

written by George Gershwin

& Ira Gershwin

01/1985

#4 The Age of Consent (all cuts)
Bronski Beat

from The Age of Consent

4 pts

dance

written by Jimmy Somerville, Larry Steinbachek, Steve Bronski, George Gershwin

, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, Dorothy Heyward, Pete Bellotte, Giorgio Moroder, Donna Summer & Geoff Goddard

Sublime

10/1997

#2 Doin' Time
Sublime

from Sublime

39 pts

alt.

[Gasoline Alley 55390]
written by Ira Gershwin, George Gershwin

, Marshall Goodman, Dorothy Heyward, DuBose Heyward & Bradley Nowell

Lana Del Rey

05/2019

#1 Doin' Time
Lana Del Rey

from Norman Fucking Rockwell!

315 pts

alt.

[Polydor]
written by Bradley Nowell, Rick Rubin, Adam Horovitz, Adam Yauch, Marshall Goodman, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, Dorothy Heyward & George Gershwin