George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

Original Release Date:  April 30, 2009

Track Listing

• 1. Act 1. Scene 1. Overture [Live]
• 2. Act 1. Scene 1. Summertime [Live]
• 3. Act 1. Scene 1. Oh, nobody knows when de Lawd is goin' to call [Live]
• 4. Act 1. Scene 1. I been sweatin' all day [Live]
• 5. Act 1. Scene 1. Summertime - Seven come, seven to pappy! [Live]
• 6. Act 1. Scene 1. Lissen to yo' daddy - A woman is a sometime thing [Live
• 7. Act 1. Scene 1. Here's the ol' crap shark! [Live]
• 8. Act 1. Scene 1. No, no, brother [Live]
• 9. Act 1. Scene 1. Here comes Big Boy! [Live]
• 10. Act 1. Scene 1. Don't you ever let a woman grieve you [Live]
• 11. Act 1. Scene 1. Oh, little stars [Live]
• 12. Act 1. Scene 1. Jesus, he's killed him! [Live]
• 13. Act 1. Scene 2. Gone, gone, gone [Live]
• 14. Act 1. Scene 2. Come on sister - Overflow [Live]
• 15. Act 1. Scene 2. A saucer-burial setup, I see [Live]
• 16. Act 1. Scene 2. I ain't never done nuttin', Boss [Live]
• 17. Act 1. Scene 2. My man's Gone Now [Live]
• 18. Act 1. Scene 2. How de saucer stand now my sister [Live]
• 19. Act 1. Scene 2. Oh, the train is at the station [Live]
• 20. Act 1. Scene 3. Oh, I'm agoin' out - It take a long pull to get there [
• 21. Act 1. Scene 3. Oh, I got plenty o' nuttin' [Live]
• 22. Act 1. Scene 3. Mornin', Lawyer, lookin' for somebody? [Live]
• 23. Act 1. Scene 3. 'Lo Bess, goin' to picnic? [Live]
• 24. Act 1. Scene 3. Bess, you is my woman now [Live]
• 25. Act 1. Scene 3. I stayin' with Porgy - sho' you goin' [Live]
• 26. Act 1. Scene 3. Goodby, Porgy [Live]
• 27. Act 2. Scene 1. I ain't got no shame [Live]
• 28. Act 2. Scene 1. It ain't necessarily so [Live]
• 29. Act 2. Scene 1. Crown, I got something to tell you [Live]
• 30. Act 2. Scene 1. Oh, what you want wid Bess? [Live]
• 31. Act 2. Scene 1. Interlude [Live]
• 32. Act 2. Scene 2. Honey, dat's all de breakfast I got time for [Live]
• 33. Act 2. Scene 2. It take a long pull to get there, huh! [Live]
• 34. Act 2. Scene 2. I think dat maybe she goin' to sleep now [Live]
• 35. Act 2. Scene 2. Oh, Doctor Jesus [Live]
• 36. Act 2. Scene 2. Oh dey's so fresh an' fine [Live]
• 37. Act 2. Scene 2. I'm talkin' about devil crabs [Live]
• 38. Act 2. Scene 2. I lonesome here all by myself [Live]
• 39. Act 2. Scene 2. I wants to stay here [Live]
• 40. Act 2. Scene 2. Why you been out on that wharf so long, Clara? [Live]
• 41. Act 2. Scene 3. Beginning [Live]
• 42. Act 2. Scene 3. Oh, de Lowd shake de Heavens [Live]
• 43. Act 2. Scene 3. One of dese mornings you goin' to rise up singin' [Live
• 44. Act 2. Scene 3. Oh, dere's somebody knockin' at de do' [Live]
• 45. Act 2. Scene 3. If Gawd want to kill me [Live]
• 46. Act 2. Scene 3. A red-headed woman make a choo-choo jump [Live]
• 47. Act 3. Scene 1. Clara, don't you be downhearted [Live]
• 48. Act 3. Scene 1. Ha ha ha - You low-life skunk [Live]
• 49. Act 3. Scene 1. Summertime [Live]
• 50. Act 3. Scene 1. Interlude - Death of Crown [Live]
• 51. Act 3. Scene 2. Interlude [Live]
• 52. Act 3. Scene 2. Turn me loose [Live]
• 53. Act 3. Scene 2. There's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York [Live]
• 54. Act 3. Scene 3. Prelude [Live]
• 55. Act 3. Scene 3. Dem white folks sure ain't put nuttin' [Live]
• 56. Act 3. Scene 3. Oh Bess, oh where's my Bess? [Live]
• 57. Act 3. Scene 3. Where Bess gone? [Live]
• 58. Act 3. Scene 3. Oh Lord, I'm on my way [Live]

Credits

• John Ireland: Author
• Leontyne Price: Soprano (Vocal)
• Cab Calloway: Tenor (Vocal)
• Ira Gershwin: Librettist
• John McCurry: Baritone (Vocal)
• William Warfield: Bass Baritone
• DuBose Heyward: Librettist
• Helen Dowdy: Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal)
• Jerry Laws: Tenor (Vocal)
• Catherine Ayers: Mezzo-Soprano (Vocal)
• Leslie Scott: Baritone (Vocal)
• Helen Colbert: Soprano (Vocal)
• Ray Yeats: Tenor (Vocal)
• RIAS Light Orchestra: Orchestra
• Helen Thigpen: Soprano (Vocal)
• Alexnader Smallens: Conductor
• Moses Lamar: Baritone (Vocal)
• Georgia Burke: Contralto (Vocal)
• Howard A. Roberts: Tenor (Vocal)