Released 1959 Release date 1959 Genre Vocal jazz | Length 35:56 Label RCA Victor | |
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Recorded February and March 1959 at RCA Victor Studio A, New York City Producer Bob Bollard, Fred Reynolds Porgy and Bess
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(1959) Artists Harry Belafonte, Lena Horne Nominations Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance Similar Harry Belafonte albums, Vocal jazz albums | ||
Porgy and Bess is an album by Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne, released by RCA Victor in 1959. It features songs from George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess. Belafonte and Horne sing two songs together: "There's a Boat That's Leavin' Soon for New York" and "Bess, You Is My Woman Now". The album was re-issued on a 2-CD set in 2003 together with Jamaica by BMG Collectables in Stereo.
Contents
Track listing
All music composed by George Gershwin, lyricists indicated.
- "A Woman is a Sometime Thing" (DuBose Heyward) – 2:40
- "Summertime" (Heyward) – 3:11
- "Oh I Got Plenty of Nothing" (Ira Gershwin, Heyward) – 3:00
- "I Wants You to Stay Here" (I. Gershwin, Heyward) – 3:30
- "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" (I. Gershwin, Heyward) – 5:57
- "It Ain't Necessarily So" (I. Gershwin) – 3:03
- "Street Calls": "Strawberry Woman" / "The Honey Man" / "Crab Man" (Heyward) – 4:17
- "My Man's Gone Now" – 4:05
- "Bess, Oh Where's My Bess" (I. Gershwin) – 3:36
- "There's a Boat That's Leavin' Soon for New York" – 2:37
Personnel
Production notes:
Songs
1A Woman Is a Sometime Thing2:40
2Summertimme3:11
3Oh - I Got Plenty of Nothin'3:00
References
Porgy and Bess (Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne album) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA