Frances Faye And Mel Tormé Featuring The Bethlehem Orchestra And Duke Ellington And His Orchestra – George Gershwin’s Porgy & Bess
3 × Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Tracklist
| Part 1. | ||
| A1 |
Introduction / Summertime
|
1:25 |
| A2 | Narration | 1:24 |
| A3 |
Summertime
|
3:48 |
| A4 | Narration | 0:12 |
| A5 |
A Woman Is A Sometime Thing
|
2:39 |
| A6 |
Narration / Here Come De Honey Man…
|
1:20 |
| A7 | Narration | 0:24 |
| A8 | Evenin’ Ladies, Hello Boys… | 0:43 |
| A9 | Narration | 0:15 |
| A10 | No, No, Brother, Porgy Ain’t Soft On No Woman… | 1:33 |
| A11 |
Narration (Scene: Crap Game And Murder)
|
4:31 |
| B1 | Narration | 0:51 |
| B2 |
Gone, Gone, Gone
|
2:20 |
| B3 | Overflow, Overflow | 2:08 |
| B4 | Narration | 0:28 |
| B5 | I Can’t Puzzle This Thing Out… | 1:18 |
| B6 | Narration | 0:11 |
| B7 | My Man’s Gone Now | 3:49 |
| B8 | Narration | 0:35 |
| B9 |
Oh The Train Is At The Station…
|
2:43 |
| C1 | Narration | 0:37 |
| C2 |
Oh I’m Agoin’ Out To The Blackfish Banks…
|
2:17 |
| C3 | Narration | 0:34 |
| C4 |
I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’
|
3:13 |
| C5 |
Mornin’, Lawyer. Looking For Somebody?…
|
4:23 |
| C6 | Buzzard Song | 2:43 |
| C7 | Narration | 0:28 |
| C8 | Bess, You Is My Woman Now | 4:57 |
| C9 |
Oh, I Can’t Sit Down (Picnic Music)
|
1:55 |
| C10 | Porgy, I Hates To Go… | 1:00 |
| C11 | I Got Plenty O Nuttin’ (Reprise) | 0:37 |
| D1 |
It Ain’t Necessarily So (Instrumental)
|
1:52 |
| D2 | Narration | 0:34 |
| D3 |
It Ain’t Necessarily So
|
4:28 |
| D4 | Narration | 0:53 |
| D5 |
What You Want Wid Bess?…
|
2:12 |
| D6 | Narration | 0:33 |
| D7 |
Oh I’m Agoin’ Out To The Blackfish Banks… (Reprise)
|
1:27 |
| D8 | Narration | 0:30 |
| D9 |
Oh, Doctor Jesus…
|
2:02 |
| D10 |
Here Come De Honey Man… / Oh Dey’s So Fresh And Fine… / I’m Talkin’ About Devil Crabs..
|
3:31 |
| Part 2. | ||
| E1 | Narration | 0:38 |
| E2 | I Loves You, Porgy | 3:17 |
| E3 |
Narration (Scene: Storm)
|
3:04 |
| E4 |
Summertime (Reprise)
|
1:22 |
| E5 | Narration | 0:11 |
| E6 |
Oh, Dere’s Somebody Knockin’ At De Do’…
|
1:03 |
| E7 | Narration | 1:20 |
| E8 |
If God Want To Kill Me…
|
2:05 |
| E9 | Narration | 0:06 |
| E10 |
A Red-Headed Woman…
|
1:48 |
| E11 | Narration | 0:59 |
| E12 |
Oh, Doctor Jesus (Reprise)
|
0:38 |
| F1 | Narration | 0:55 |
| F2 |
Clara, Clara, Don’t You Be Downhearted…
|
1:36 |
| F3 | Narration | 0:10 |
| F4 |
Summertime (Reprise)
|
1:12 |
| F5 |
Narration
|
1:50 |
| F6 | Oh, Lawd, What I Goin’ Do?… | 1:21 |
| F7 |
Narration
|
0:09 |
| F8 |
There’s A Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon For New York
|
1:28 |
| F9 |
George Kirby
|
1:18 |
| F10 |
Narration
|
0:24 |
| F11 |
How Are You Dis Mornin’?…
|
1:41 |
| F12 |
Narration
|
0:39 |
| F13 |
Oh, Bess, Oh, Where’s My Bess
|
2:19 |
| F14 |
Oh Lawd, I’m On My Way
|
1:57 |
Credits
- Conductor [Bethlehem Orchestra] – Russ Garcia*
- Music By – George Gershwin
- Narrator – Al Jazzbo Collins
- Orchestra – Duke Ellington And His Orchestra, The Bethlehem Orchestra
- Performer – The Australian Jazz Quintet, The Pat Moran Quartet
- Text By – Dorothy Heyward, Du Bose Heyward*, Ira Gershwin
- Vocals [Bess] – Frances Faye
- Vocals [Clara] – Betty Roché
- Vocals [Crown] – Johnny Hartman
- Vocals [Jake] – Frank Rosolino
- Vocals [Porgy] – Mel Tormé
- Vocals [Serena] – Sallie Blair
- Vocals [Sportin’ Life] – George Kirby
Notes
THREE (3) 12″ Inch, Thick Heavy Vinyl Records BOX SET
Includes performance booklet insert and wax paper style inner sleeves
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