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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

Lawrence Winters, Camilla Williams, Inez Matthews, Avon Long, Warren Coleman

J. Rosamond Johnson Chorus, Lehman Engel

Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

Lawrence Winters, Camilla Williams, Inez Matthews, Avon Long, Warren Coleman

J. Rosamond Johnson Chorus, Lehman Engel

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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess, Act I Scene 1
Work length24:39
  • June McMechen, Eddie Matthews, Avon Long, William A. Glover, Inez Matthews, Irving Washington, Harrison Cattenhead, Helen Dowdy, Lawrence Winters, George Fisher, Warren Coleman, Camilla Williams
  • Lehman Engel Orchestra
  • Lehman Engel
  • Recorded: 5-13 April 1951
  • Recording Venue: Columbia 30th Street Studios, New York
Introduction
Track length1:00
Summertime
Track length2:30
Seems like these bones
Track length3:40
What, that chile ain't asleep yet?... (A woman is a sometime thing)
Track length2:16
Here comes de honey man
Track length4:38
Here comes Big Boy!
Track length4:19
Oh, little stars
Track length2:38
Wake up an' hit it out
Track length3:38
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess, Act I Scene 2
Work length15:41
  • Inez Matthews, Helen Dowdy, Camilla Williams, Eddie Matthews, Harrison Cattenhead, Lawrence Winters, George Matthews (actor), Hubert Dilworth
  • J. Rosamond Johnson Chorus, Lehman Engel Orchestra
  • Lehman Engel
  • Recorded: 5-13 April 1951
  • Recording Venue: Columbia 30th Street Studios, New York
Where is brudder Robbins?... (Gone, gone, gone)
Track length2:51
Come on, sister, come on, brother... (Overflow)
Track length2:29
Um! a saucer-buried setup, I see
Track length3:15
My man's gone now
Track length3:30
How the saucer stan' now, my sister?
Track length1:50
Oh, the train is at the station
Track length1:46
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess, Act II Scene 1
Work length27:12
  • Eddie Matthews, Sadie McGill, June McMechen, Lawrence Winters, Inez Matthews, Helen Dowdy, J. Rosamond Johnson, Camilla Williams, Robert Carroll (actor), Avon Long
  • Lehman Engel Orchestra, J. Rosamond Johnson Chorus
  • Lehman Engel
  • Recorded: 5-13 April 1951
  • Recording Venue: Columbia 30th Street Studios, New York
Oh, I'm a-goin' out to the Blackfish banks
Track length2:56
Oh, I got plenty o' nuttin'
Track length2:43
Mornin', Lawyer, lookin' for somebody?
Track length4:07
Dey's a Buckra comin'!
Track length3:06
Buzzard, keep on flyin'over
Track length2:44
'Lo, Bess. Goin' to the picnic
Track length2:38
Bess, you is my woman now
Track length4:52
Oh, I can't sit down!
Track length4:06
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess, Act II Scene 2
Work length9:52
  • Avon Long, Warren Coleman, Camilla Williams
  • J. Rosamond Johnson Chorus, Lehman Engel Orchestra
  • Lehman Engel
  • Recorded: 5-13 April 1951
  • Recording Venue: Columbia 30th Street Studios, New York
Ha-da-da, ha-da-da
Track length1:14
It ain't necessarily so
Track length2:43
Hey there! Holt yo' holt
Track length2:42
Oh, what you want wid Bess?
Track length3:13
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess, Act II Scene 3
Work length14:23
  • Eddie Matthews, Ray Yeats, George Fisher, Helen Dowdy, Harrison Cattenhead, Camilla Williams, Inez Matthews, Lawrence Winters, June McMechen
  • Lehman Engel Orchestra
  • Lehman Engel
  • Recorded: 5-13 April 1951
  • Recording Venue: Columbia 30th Street Studios, New York
Honey, dat's all de breakfast I got time for
Track length4:08
Oh, Doctor Jesus
Track length1:29
Oh dey's so fresh an' fine
Track length2:16
Now de time, oh Gawd, now de time
Track length2:53
I loves you, Porgy
Track length2:15
Why you been out on that wharf so long, Clara?
Track length1:22
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess, Act II Scene 4
Work length9:45
  • Lawrence Winters, June McMechen, Inez Matthews, Avon Long, Harrison Cattenhead, Helen Dowdy, William A. Glover, Camilla Williams, Warren Coleman
  • J. Rosamond Johnson Chorus, Lehman Engel Orchestra
  • Lehman Engel
  • Recorded: 5-13 April 1951
  • Recording Venue: Columbia 30th Street Studios, New York
Oh, de Lawd shake de Heavens... (Summertime)
Track length3:01
Oh, dere's somebody knockin' at de do'
Track length1:31
You is a nice parcel of Christians
Track length2:34
A red-headed woman makes a choochoo jump its track
Track length2:39
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess, Act III Scene 1
Work length8:22
  • Helen Dowdy, Avon Long, Camilla Williams, Warren Coleman, Lawrence Winters
  • J. Rosamond Johnson Chorus, Lehman Engel Orchestra
  • Lehman Engel
  • Recorded: 5-13 April 1951
  • Recording Venue: Columbia 30th Street Studios, New York
Clara, Clara, don't you be downhearted
Track length3:42
You low-lived skunk
Track length1:32
Summertime
Track length1:21
Bess, this is Crown
Track length1:47
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess, Act III Scene 2
Work length8:31
  • Sadie McGill, Inez Matthews, George Matthews (actor), Camilla Williams, Avon Long
  • Lehman Engel Orchestra
  • Lehman Engel
  • Recorded: 5-13 April 1951
  • Recording Venue: Columbia 30th Street Studios, New York
Wait for us at the corner, Al
Track length3:27
Oh, Gawd! They goin' make him look on Crown's face!
Track length1:25
There's a boat that's leavin' soon for New York
Track length3:39
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess, Act III Scene 3
Work length11:32
  • William A. Glover, Lawrence Winters, Helen Dowdy, Inez Matthews
  • J. Rosamond Johnson Chorus, Lehman Engel Orchestra
  • Lehman Engel
  • Recorded: 5-13 April 1951
  • Recording Venue: Columbia 30th Street Studios, New York
Good mornin', sistuh! Good mornin', brudder!
Track length1:37
It's Porgy comin' home
Track length4:09
Oh, Bess, oh, where's my Bess
Track length2:29
Bess is gone
Track length1:37
Oh, Lawd, I'm on my way
Track length1:40
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Work length26:19
Summertime
Track length3:02
A woman is a sometime thing
Track length3:33
My man's gone now
Track length4:10
Oh, I got plenty o' nuttin'
Track length2:53
Bess, you is my woman now
Track length5:02
Ha-da-da, ha-da-da... It ain't necessarily so
Track length4:04
Oh, Bess, oh, where's my Bess
Track length2:14
Oh, Lawd, I'm on my way
Track length1:21
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