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Porgy and Bess (Sammy Davis Jr. and Carmen McRae album)

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Released
  
1959

Porgy and Bess (1959)
  
Sammy Awards (1960)

Release date
  
1959

Genre
  
Jazz

Recorded
  
1959

Artist
  
Sammy Davis Jr.

Label
  
Simitar Entertainment

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Birds of a Feather (1958)

Similar
  
Sammy Davis Jr albums, Jazz albums

Porgy and Bess is a 1959 album by Sammy Davis Jr. and Carmen McRae of selections from George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess. Davis and McRae were accompanied by the Bill Thompson singers and the album was arranged by Buddy Bregman and conducted by Bregman, Jack Pleis and Morty Stevens.

Contents

Track listing

  1. "Summertime"
  2. "A Woman Is a Sometime Thing"
  3. "My Man's Gone Now"
  4. "I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'"
  5. "Bess, You Is My Woman Now"
  6. "It Ain't Necessarily So"
  7. "I Loves You, Porgy"
  8. "There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York"
  9. "Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess"
  10. "Oh Lawd, I'm On My Way"

All music composed by George Gershwin, with lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin.

Personnel

  • Sammy Davis, Jr., Carmen McRae - vocals
  • The Bill Thompson Singers - vocal
  • Buddy Bregman - arranger, conductor
  • Jack Pleis, Morty Stevens - conductor

    • Songs

    1OvertureGeorge Gershwin4:58
    2SummertimeMargaret Tynes2:53
    3A Woman Is a Sometime ThingLevern Hutcherson - Avong Long - Margaret Tynes2:28

    References

    Porgy and Bess (Sammy Davis Jr. and Carmen McRae album) Wikipedia
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