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George Gershwin - Porgy And Bess (The Original Cast Album) flac album
  • Performer George Gershwin
  • Title Porgy And Bess (The Original Cast Album)
  • Country US
  • Style Musical
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This version's liner notes make reference to the 1955 . tour that is missing from the liner notes of the earlier DL 9024 reissue using the original cover from the 1952 release under catalog number DL 8042. Matrix, Runout (Side A label matrix): MG 2463. Matrix, Runout (Side B label matrix): MG 2464⦿.

On the record label: Licensed by Decca Records, a division of MCA In. New York, . Other Versions (5 of 25) View All.

Porgy and Bess is a 1959 American musical film directed by Otto Preminger. It is based on the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess by George Gershwin, DuBose Heyward, and Ira Gershwin, which is in turn based on Heyward's 1925 novel Porgy, as well as Heyward's subsequent 1927 non-musical stage adaptation, co-written with his wife Dorothy. The screenplay for the film, which turned the operatic recitatives into spoken dialogue, was very closely based on the opera and was written by N. Richard Nash.

George Gershwin's "American Folk Opera" Porgy and Bess opened on Broadway on October 10, 1935, in the middle of the Great Depression and closed after only 124 performances on January 25, 1936. In May 1940, Decca Records assembled some of the members of the original cast, including Todd Duncan and Anne Brown, who had played the title characters, for a recording session that produced a 78 rpm album of selections from the score.

George Gershwin (Composer) Format: Vinyl.

Selections from George Gershwin's Folk Opera Porgy and Bess. 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 George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess as sung by members of the original Broadway cast from 1935. The only singers involved were Todd Duncan as Porgy and Anne Brown as Bess.

Album · 2013 · 19 Songs. George Gershwin: Gershwin Plays Gershwin (1919 -1931). Gershwin: The Piano Rolls, Vol. 2. 1995. Rhapsody In Blue, An American In Paris (Remastered). The Definitive George Gershwin Collection Volume 4. 1991. Porgy and Bess (Otto Preminger's Original Motion Picture Soundtrack).

Tracklist

A1 –Anne Brown Overture And Summertime
A2 –Edward Matthews Assisted By Harriet Jackson With Eva Jessye Choir A Woman Is A Sometime Thing (Introducing: Summertime)
A3 –Anne Brown With Eva Jessye Choir My Man's Gone Now
A4 –Edward Matthews It Take A Long Pull To Get There
A5 –Todd Duncan With Eva Jessye Choir I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
A6 –Todd Duncan With Eva Jessye Choir Buzzard Song
A7 –Todd Duncan And Anne Brown With Eva Jessye Choir Bess, You Is My Woman
B1 –Todd Duncan With Eva Jessye Choir It Ain't Necessarily So
B2 –Anne Brown And Todd Duncan What Do You Want Wid Bess?
B3 (a) –Helen Dowdy Assisted By Gladys Goode Strawberry Woman's Call
B3 (b) –William Woolfolk Assisted By Georgette Harvey Crab Man's Call
B4 –Todd Duncan And Anne Brown I Loves You, Porgy
B5 –Eva Jessye Choir The Reqiuem
B6 –Avon Long And Anne Brown There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York
B7 –Todd Duncan With Eva Jessye Choir Porgy's Lament And Finale

Companies, etc.

  • Manufactured By – Decca Records, Inc.
  • Made By – Decca Records Pressing Plant, Gloversville

Credits

  • Choir – Eva Jessye Choir
  • Composed By – George Gershwin
  • Conductor – Alexander Smallens
  • Liner Notes – Louis Untermeyer
  • Lyrics By – DuBose Heyward, Ira Gershwin
  • Orchestra – Decca Symphony Orchestra
  • Vocals – Anne Brown, Todd Duncan

Notes

Labels are maroon 3⅝" diameter with "★ DECCA ★" at top, and "LONG PLAY 33⅓ RPM" at bottom.
Fine print on labels includes: "Reg. U.S. PAT. OFF. MARCA REGISTRADA • MFR'D By Decca Records Inc., New York, U.S.A."

This version's liner notes make reference to the 1955 U.S.S.R. tour that is missing from the liner notes of the earlier DL 9024 reissue using the original cover from the 1952 release under catalog number DL 8042.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

  • Matrix / Runout (Side A label matrix): MG 2463
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B label matrix): MG 2464⦿
  • Matrix / Runout (Side A / stamped): MG2463T10 1P
  • Matrix / Runout (Side B / stamped): MG2464T19 1P
  • Pressing Plant ID (Side B label matrix suffix): ⦿
  • Pressing Plant ID (Stamped in run-outs): 1

Other versions

Category Artist Title (Format) Label Category Country Year
DL 9024 George Gershwin / Todd Duncan , Anne Brown, The Eva Jessye Choir*, Conducting*, Decca Symphony Orchestra George Gershwin / Todd Duncan , Anne Brown, The Eva Jessye Choir*, Conducting*, Decca Symphony Orchestra - Porgy And Bess: Selections From George Gershwin's Folk Opera ‎(LP, Album, Mono, RE, Glo) Decca DL 9024 US Unknown
FL-7183 George Gershwin / Todd Duncan , Anne Brown, The Eva Jessye Choir*, Conducting*, Decca Symphony Orchestra George Gershwin / Todd Duncan , Anne Brown, The Eva Jessye Choir*, Conducting*, Decca Symphony Orchestra - Porgy And Bess: Selections From George Gershwin's Folk Opera ‎(LP, Album) Festival Records FL-7183 Australia Unknown
DL 79024 Todd Duncan . Anne Brown, Decca Symphony Orchestra Todd Duncan . Anne Brown, Decca Symphony Orchestra - George Gershwin's Porgy And Bess ‎(LP, Album, Pin) Decca DL 79024 US Unknown
DL 8024 George Gershwin Porgy And Bess: Selections From George Gershwin's Folk Opera ‎(LP, Album) Decca DL 8024 US 1952
LAT 8021 Gershwin* Porgy And Bess ‎(LP, Album, Mono) Brunswick, Decca LAT 8021 UK 1956
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