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Porgy & Bess [sound recording] : original Broadway cast / all songs written by George Gershwin, DuBoss [i.e. DuBose] Heyward, Ira Gershwin except "The requiem" written by George Gershwin.
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Publication Information:
Universal City, CA : MCA Classics, [1992]
℗1992
Physical Description:
1 sound disc : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
"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.
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).
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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.
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Performer:
Anne Brown, soprano ; Todd Duncan, baritone ; other singers ; Eva Jessye Choir ; Decca Symphony Orchestra ; Alexander Smallens, conductor.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:
Recorded May 1940 and May 1942.
OCLC Number:
ocm27084561
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