Selections from George Gershwin's Folk Opera Porgy and Bess
Decca Presents Selections from George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess | ||||
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Studio album by various | ||||
Released | 1952 | |||
Recorded | 1940 & 1942 | |||
Genre | Opera | |||
Label | Decca | |||
Porgy and Bess chronology | ||||
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Decca Presents Selections from George Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess consists of two volumes of records, the first from 1940, and the next from 1942.
The 1940 album was the first to record selections from
shellac records
assigned the numbers 29067, 29068, 29069 and 29070.
After Porgy and Bess was revived on Broadway in 1942, Decca brought the cast from the revival together to record more songs not already recorded two years earlier, issuing a new "Volume Two." This recording originally came on 3 ten-inch
shellac records
, which Decca Records assigned the numbers 23250, 23251 and 23252.
A few years later, Decca re-released the albums as on LP set entitled Selections from Porgy and Bess in February 1950, (DL 7006), deceptively billing it as "the original cast album" though only selected members of two separate casts participated.
Cast
- Todd Duncan (Porgy) (Sportin Life in "It Ain't Necessarily So")
- Anne Brown (Bess) (Clara in "Summertime") (Serena in "My Man's Gone Now")
- Avon Long (Sportin' Life)
- Edward Matthews(Jake)
- Helen Dowdy (Strawberry Woman)
- William Woolfolk (Crab Man)
- Georgette Harvey (Maria)
- Gladys Goode
- Eva Jessye Choir
- Decca Symphony Orchestra
- Alexander Smallens, conductor
Track listing
Track | Song Title |
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1. | "Overture" and "Summertime" |
2. | "My Man's Gone Now" |
3. | "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'" |
4. | "Buzzard Song" |
5. | "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" |
6. | "It Ain't Necessarily So" |
7. | "The Requiem" |
8. | "Porgy's Lament" and "Finale" |
Track | Song Title |
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1. | "A Woman Is a Sometime Thing" |
2. | "It Take a Long Pull to Get There" |
3. | "What You Want Wid Bess?" |
4. | "Street Cries" |
5. | "I Loves You, Porgy" |
6. | "There's a Boat dat's Leavin' Soon for New York" |
Combination LP (February 1950)
Track | Song Title |
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1. | "Overture and Summertime" |
2. | "A Woman Is a Sometime Thing" |
3. | "My Man's Gone Now" |
4. | "It Takes a Long Pull to Get There" |
5. | "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'" |
6. | "Buzzard Song" |
7. | "Bess, You Is My Woman" |
8. | "It Ain't Necessarily So" |
9. | "What You Want wid Bess?" |
10. | "Strawberry Woman's Call" |
11. | "Crab Man's Call" |
12. | "I Loves You, Porgy" |
13. | "The Requiem" |
14. | "There's a Boat dat's Leavin' Soon for New York" |
15. | "Porgy's Lament and Finale" |