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Gershwin-Heyward-Gershwin probably doesn’t appear on as many records as Holland-Dozier-Holland, but they wrote a killer opera and libretto called Porgy and Bess in 1934. Fast forward to 1968, when a somewhat blowsy 25-year-old blues singer from Texas recorded one of the trio’s strongest songs from that production. The result was this: I’ve always loved the …