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Porgy & Bess : original Broadway cast
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Porgy & Bess : original Broadway cast

Author: George GershwinDuBose HeywardIra GershwinAnne BrownTodd DuncanAll authors
Publisher: Universal City, Calif. : MCA Classics, 1992.
Series: Broadway gold.
Edition/Format:   Music CD : CD audio : Operas : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Excerpts
Material Type: Music
Document Type: Sound Recording
All Authors / Contributors: George Gershwin; DuBose Heyward; Ira Gershwin; Anne Brown; Todd Duncan; Alexander Smallens; Eva Jessye Choir.; Decca Symphony Orchestra.
OCLC Number: 27084561
Notes: "Originally released as two separate 'Selections from' 78 r.p.m. albums, Decca 145 and Decca 283, in 1940 and 1942, respectively, except for Avon Long's 'I got plenty o' nuttin', ' originally released 1942 as Decca 78 r.p.m. single 18323"--Insert.
Compact disc.
Original liner notes by Louis Untermeyer, and reissue notes by Max O. Preeo (10 p. : ill.) inserted in container.
Performer(s): Anne Brown, soprano ; Todd Duncan, baritone ; other singers ; Eva Jessye Choir ; Decca Symphony Orchestra ; Alexander Smallens, conductor.
Production notes: Recorded May 1940 and May 1942.
Description: 1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Contents: Overture ; and, Summertime --
A woman is a sometime thing ; Introducing Summertime (Edward Matthews, Harriet Jackson) --
My man's gone now --
It take a long pull to get there (Edward Matthews) --
I got plenty o' nuttin' --
Buzzard song --
Bess, you is my woman --
It ain't necessarily so --
What you want wid Bess? --
Strawberry woman's call ; Crab man's call (Helen Dowdy, Gladys Goode; William Woolfolk, Georgette Harvey) --
I loves you, Porgy --
The requiem --
There's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York (with Avon Long) --
Porgy's lament and finale --
I got plenty o' nuttin (Avon Long with Leo Reisman's orchestra; recorded Apr. 1942).
Series Title: Broadway gold.
Other Titles: Summertime.
Woman is a sometime thing.
My man's gone now.
It take a long pull to get there.
I got plenty o' nuttin'.
Buzzard song.
Bess, you is my woman.
It ain't necessarily so.
What you want wid Bess?
Strawberry woman's call.
Crab man's call.
I loves you, Porgy.
Requiem.
There's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York.
Porgy's lament and finale.
Porgy and Bess.
Porgy and Bess
Decca presents selections from George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess
Responsibility: all songs written by George Gershwin, DuBoss [i.e. DuBose] Heyward, Ira Gershwin ; except "The requiem" written by George Gershwin.

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