George Gershwin, Todd Duncan (3), Anne Brown – Porgy And Bess

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Label:	MCA Classics – MCAD-10520
Series:	Broadway Gold
Format:	CD, Album, Reissue, Remastered
Country:	US
Released:	1992
Genre:	Classical, Stage & Screen
Style:	Modern, Opera, Musical

Tracklist

1	Anne Brown–	Overture And Summertime	3:40
2	Edward Matthews assisted by Harriet Jackson with Eva Jessye Choir–	A Woman Is A Sometime Thing / Introducing: Summertime	2:46
3	Anne Brown with Eva Jessye Choir–	My Man's Gone Now	4:05
4	Edward Matthews–	It Take A Long Pull To Get There	2:06
5	Todd Duncan (3) with Eva Jessye Choir–	I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'	2:42
6	Todd Duncan (3) with Eva Jessye Choir–	Buzzard Song	3:44
7	Todd Duncan (3) and Anne Brown with Eva Jessye Choir–	Bess, You Is My Woman	4:34
8	Todd Duncan (3) with Eva Jessye Choir–	It Ain't Necessarily So	2:46
9	Anne Brown and Todd Duncan (3)–	What Do You Want Wid Bess?	3:00
10	Helen Dowdy assisted by Gladys Goode, William Woolfolk assisted by Georgette Harvey–	Strawberry Woman's Call/Crab Man's Call	3:05
11	Todd Duncan (3) and Anne Brown–	I Loves You, Porgy	3:24
12	Eva Jessye Choir–	The Requiem	3:57
13	Avon Long and Anne Brown–	There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York	3:02
14	Todd Duncan (3) with Eva Jessye Choir–	Porgy's Lament And Finale	3:20
		Reissue Bonus Track
15	Avon Long with Leo Reisman And His Orchestra–	I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'	2:32

Companies, etc.

Distributed By – Uni Distribution Corp.
Manufactured By – JVC
Phonographic Copyright ℗ – MCA Records, Inc.
Copyright © – MCA Records, Inc.
Engineered At – MCA Recording Studios

Credits

Art Direction – Vartan (4)
Composed By – George Gershwin
Conductor – Alexander Smallens
Coordinator [Reissue] – Andy McKaie
Libretto By – DuBose Heyward
Lyrics By – Ira Gershwin
Orchestra – Decca Symphony Orchestra
Reissue Producer – Ron O'Brien
Reissue Producer [Assistant] – Max O. Preeo*
Transferred By – Erick Labson

Notes

Recorded May, 1940 and May, 1942 except for "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'" by Avon Long, recorded April, 1942.
"Originally released as two separate 'Selections From' 78 r.p.m. albums, Decca 145 and Decca 283, in 1940 and 1942, respectively".
℗1992, ©1992, 1959, 1942, 1940 MCA Records, Inc.
Digitally Restored.

Selections from George Gershwin's Folk Opera.

Digitally transferred and prepared by Erick Labson, MCA Studios, No. Hollywood, CA.

Barcode and Other Identifiers

Barcode: 0 0881 10520 2 7
Matrix / Runout: MCAD-10520 1C
SPARS Code: AAD

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	Title (Format)	Label	Cat#	Country	Year
New Submission	Porgy And Bess (LP, 10", Album, Mono)	Decca, Decca	AX 233028, UM 233028	France	1953
New Submission	Porgy And Bess: Selections From George Gershwin's Folk Opera (LP, Album)	Festival Records	FL-7183	Australia	1959
New Submission	Porgy And Bess: Selections From George Gershwin's Folk Opera (LP, Album, Mono)	Decca	DL 9024	Canada	1962
New Submission	Porgy And Bess (The Original Cast Album) (LP, Album, Stereo)	Calendar Records (2)	SR6-9,131	Australia	1967
New Submission	Porgy And Bess (LP, Mono)	Coral	CP 44	UK	1970