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Porgy and Bess (Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne album)

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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(1959)
  
My Lord What a Mornin'(1960)

Porgy and Bess(1959)
  
Songs by Burke and Van Heusen(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.

  1. "A Woman is a Sometime Thing" (DuBose Heyward) – 2:40
  2. "Summertime" (Heyward) – 3:11
  3. "Oh I Got Plenty of Nothing" (Ira Gershwin, Heyward) – 3:00
  4. "I Wants You to Stay Here" (I. Gershwin, Heyward) – 3:30
  5. "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" (I. Gershwin, Heyward) – 5:57
  6. "It Ain't Necessarily So" (I. Gershwin) – 3:03
  7. "Street Calls": "Strawberry Woman" / "The Honey Man" / "Crab Man" (Heyward) – 4:17
  8. "My Man's Gone Now" – 4:05
  9. "Bess, Oh Where's My Bess" (I. Gershwin) – 3:36
  10. "There's a Boat That's Leavin' Soon for New York" – 2:37

Personnel

  • Harry Belafonte – vocals
  • Lena Horne – vocals

    • Production notes:

  • Bob Bollard – producer
  • Fred Reynolds – producer
  • Lennie Hayton – arrangements, musical director
  • Robert Corman – arrangements, musical director
  • Ernest Oelrich – engineer
  • Murray Laden – cover photo

    • 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
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