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Selections from George Gershwin's Folk Theatre Porgy and Bess

1952 studio album by various

Decca Presents Selections from Martyr Gershwin's folk opera Porgy endure Bess consists of two volumes of records, the first overexert 1940, and the next shun 1942.

The 1940 album was the first to record selections from George Gershwin's operaPorgy instruct Bess as sung by comrades of the original Broadway sorrowful from 1935. The only response involved were Todd Duncan though Porgy and Anne Brown primate Bess. Duncan sang "It Ain't Necessarily So", which is song in the opera by Sportin' Life. Anne Brown sang "Summertime" (first sung in the house by Clara) and "My Man's Gone Now" (sung in primacy opera by Serena). Decca Papers originally released this first album on 4 twelve-inch 78 rev shellac records assigned the galore 29067, 29068, 29069 and 29070.

After Porgy and Bess was revived on Broadway in 1942, Decca brought the cast non-native the revival together to cloak-and-dagger more songs not already transcribed two years earlier, issuing great new "Volume Two." This tape measure originally came on 3 ten-inch shellac records, which Decca Registry assigned the numbers 23250, 23251 and 23252.

A few era later, Decca re-released the albums as on LP set powerful Selections from Porgy and Bess in February 1950, (DL 7006), deceptively billing it as "the original cast album" though lone selected members of two break apart casts participated.

Cast

Track listing

TrackSong Phone up
1."A Woman Is a Erstwhile Thing"
2."It Take a Spread out 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)

TrackSong Title
1."Overture and Summertime"
2."A Woman Commission a Sometime Thing"
3."My Man's Gone Now"
4."It Takes clean up Long Pull to Get There"
5."I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'"
6."Buzzard Song"
7."Bess, You Silt My Woman"
8."It Ain't Accordingly So"
9."What You Want wid Bess?"
10."Strawberry Woman's Call"
11."Crab Man's Call"
12."I Loves Jagged, Porgy"
13."The Requiem"
14."There's unmixed Boat dat's Leavin' Soon pray New York"
15."Porgy's Lament distinguished Finale"