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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

Mel Tormé (Porgy), Frances Faye (Bess), Betty Roche (Clara), George Kirby (Sportin' Life), Johnny Hartman (Crown), Sallie Blair (Serena), Frank Rosolino (Jake)

Pat Moran Quartet, Australian Jazz Quintet, Stan Levey Group, Bethlehem Orchestra, The, Duke Ellington Famous Orchestra, Russell Garcia

  • Release Date: 27th Aug 2013
  • Catalogue No: BCP6040
  • Label: Bethlehem Records
  • Length: 1 hour 46 minutes

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Contents

Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

Work length1:46:23
$67.00
$87.10
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  • Mel Torme (vocals), Frances Faye (vocals), Betty Roche (vocals), Frank Rosolino (vocals), Sallie Blair (vocals), Johnny Hartman (vocals), George Kirby (vocals), Loolie Jane Norman (soprano), Bob Dorough (vocals)
  • Stan Levey Group, Bethlehem Orchestra, The, Duke Ellington Famous Orchestra, Australian Jazz Quintet, Pat Moran Quartet
  • Russell Garcia
  • Recorded: 1956

Introduction - Summertime

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Narration No. 1

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Summertime

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Narration No. 2

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A Woman Is a Sometime Thing

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Here Comes de Honey Man

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Narration No. 3

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Evenin' Ladies, Hello Boys

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Narration No. 4

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No, No, Brother, Porgy Ain't Soft On No Woman

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Act I: Narration 6 (Porgy, Bess) (Scene: Crap game and murder)

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Act I: Narration 7 (Porgy, Bess)

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Act I: Gone, gone, gone

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Act I: Overflow, overflow (Porgy)

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Act I: Narration 8 (Porgy, Bess)

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Act I: I can't puzzle this thing out (Porgy)

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Act I: Narration 9 (Porgy, Bess)

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Act I: My man's gone now (Serena)

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Act I: Narration 10 (Porgy, Bess)

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Act I: Oh, the train is at the station (Bess)

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Act I: Narration 11 (Porgy, Bess)

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Act I: Oh I'm agoin' out to the Blackfish banks (Jake)

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Act I: Narration 12 (Porgy, Bess)

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Act I: Oh, I got plenty of nuttin' (Quartet)

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Act I: Mornin', Lawyer, lookin' for somebody? (Sportin' Life)

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Act II: Buzzard keep on flyin' over (Porgy)

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Act II: Narration 13 (Porgy, Bess)

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Act II: Bess, you is my woman now (Bess)

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Act II: Oh, I can't sit down (Bess, Porgy)

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Act II: Porgy, I hates to go (Bess)

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Act II: Oh, I got plenty o' nuttin' (Jake, Clara, Porgy, Serena) (reprise)

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Act II: It Ain't Necessarily So

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Act II: Narration 14 (Porgy, Bess)

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Act II: It ain't necessarily so (Sportin' Life)

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Act II: Narration 15 (Porgy, Bess)

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Act II: What You Want Wid' Bess (Crown)

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Act II: Narration 16 (Porgy, Bess)

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Act II: Oh, I'm agoin' out to the Blackfish banks (Jake) (reprise)

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Act II: Narration 17 (Porgy, Bess)

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Act II: Oh, doctor Jesus (Porgy, Clara, Serena, Sporting Life)

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Act II: Here come de honey man - Oh dey's so fresh an' fine - I'm talkinn about devil's crab (Strawberry Woman, Crab Man, Porgy)

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Act II: Narration 18 (Porgy, Bess)

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Act II: I Loves You, Porgy (Bess)

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Act II: Narration 19 (Porgy, Bess) (Scene: Storm)

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Act II: Summertime (Clara) (reprise)

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Act II: Narration 20 (Porgy, Bess)

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Act II: Oh, dere's somebody knockin' at de do'

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Act II: Narration 21 (Porgy, Bess)

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Act II: If God want to kill me (Crown)

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Act II: Narration 22 (Porgy, Bess)

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Act II: A red-headed woman make a choo-choo jump (Crown, Clara, Bess)

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Act II: Narration 23 (Porgy, Bess)

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Act II: Oh, Doctor Jesus (Porgy, Clara, Serena, Sporting Life) (reprise)

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Act III: Narration 24 (Porgy, Bess)

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Act III: Clara, Clara, don't you be downhearted (Serena, Bess, Sporting Life)

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Act III: Narration 25 (Porgy, Bess)

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Act III: Summertime (Bess, Porgy) (reprise)

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Act III: Narration 26 (Porgy, Bess)

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Act III: Oh, Lawd, what I goin' do? (Porgy, Bess, Sporting Life)

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Act III: Narration 27 (Porgy, Bess)

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Act III: There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York (Sporting Life, Bess)

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Act III: Narration 28 (Porgy, Bess)

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Act III: Narration 29 (Porgy, Bess)

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Act III: How are you dis mornin'?

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Act III: Narration 30 (Porgy, Bess)

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Act III: Oh, Bess, oh, where is my Bess? (Porgy)

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Act III: Finale: Oh Lawd, I'm on my way (Porgy)

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