| Decca Presents Selections from George
Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess |
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| Studio
album by various |
| Released |
1940 & 1942 |
| Recorded |
1940 & 1942 |
| Genre |
Opera |
| Length |
??? |
| Label |
Decca |
| Producer |
??? |
| various 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 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. Duncan sang "It Ain't
Necessarly So", which is sung in the opera by Sportin' Life. Anne Brown sang "Summertime" (first sung in the opera by Clara) and
"My Man's Gone Now" (sung in the opera by Serena). Decca Records originally released this
first volume on 4 twelve-inch 78 rpm vinyl 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
vinyl 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 1955,
deceptively billing it as "the original cast album" though only selected members of two separate casts participated.
Cast
Track listing
Volume 1 (1940)
| Track |
Song Title |
| 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 |
| 6. |
It ain't necessarily so |
| 7. |
The requiem |
| 8. |
Porgy's lament and Finale |
Volume 2 (1942)
| Track |
Song Title |
| 1. |
A woman is a sometime thing |
| 2. |
It take a long pull to get here |
| 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 (1955)
| Track |
Song Title |
| 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. |
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