Track Listing
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A1
Overture
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A2
Summertime
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A3
A Woman Is A Sometime Thing
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The Wake:
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A4
Gone, Gone, Gone
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A5
Porgy's Prayer
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A6
My Man's Gone Now
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A7
I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
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A8
Bess, You Is My Woman Now
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B1
Morning
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B2
Catfish Row
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B3
I Can't Sit Down
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B4
It Ain't Necessarily So
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B5
I Ain't Got No Shame
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B6
What You Want With Bess?
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Street Cries:
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B7
Strawberry Woman
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B8
Crab Man
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B9
I Loves You, Porgy
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B10
A Red-Headed Woman
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B11
Clara, Clara
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B12
There's A Boat That's Leavin' Soon For New York
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B13
Oh, Where's My Bess?
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B14
I'm On My Way
Album Information
Additional Information
- S 70007
- 1 x Vinyl LP, Album, Stereo
- 1963
- Germany
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- Credits
- Conductor, Leader [Music Supervised By] - André Previn
- Film Producer - Samuel Goldwyn
- Lyrics By [Words] - DuBose Heyward
- Lyrics By [Words] - Ira Gershwin
- Music By - George Gershwin
- Vocals [Bess] - Dorothy Dandridge
- Vocals [Maria] - Pearl Bailey
- Vocals [Porgy] - Robert McFerrin
- Vocals [Sportin' Life] - Cab Calloway
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- Notes
- An Original Sound Track Recording.
The Samuel Goldwyn Motion Picture Production of Porgy And Bess
Featuring the Original Sound Track Performances and Cab Calloway as "Sportin' Life"
For this 1959 movie, Sidney Poitier's singing voice was dubbed by Robert McFerrin. Although the role of "Sportin' Life" is performed by Sammy Davis Jr. in the movie, for contractual reasons his role is performed here by Cab Calloway.
The etched runouts are placed between the two stamped number runouts. Also stamped on runouts on both sides :- "Made in Germany".
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- Barcode / Identifiers
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout stamped) 108245 A 108305 A ] 017_1
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout stamped) 108245 B 108305 B ] 017-2
- Matrix / Runout (Side A runout etched) CBS-70.007-S-A
- Matrix / Runout (Side B runout etched) CBS-70.007-S-B
- Rights Society (Side B runout etched) GEMA
- Very Good Plus (VG+)
- Very Good Plus (VG+)