Porgy and Bess > Film Soundtrack

Show Details

Show: Porgy and Bess (110)
Music: George Gershwin (859)
Lyrics: Ira Gershwin (709), DuBose Heyward (106)
Book: DuBose Heyward (106)

Recording Details

Date: 1959
Type: Audio / Film Cast
Language: English
Group/Studio: Samuel Goldwyn
Book: N. Richard Nash (6) — Screenplay
Director: Otto Preminger (7)
Choreography: Hermes Pan (45)
Conductor: André Previn (146)
Orchestrations: Alexander Courage (46), Robert Franklyn (31), Conrad Salinger (106), Albert Woodbury (12)
Performer: Adele Addison (2) — dubs Dorothy Dandridge (Bess), Pearl Bailey (94) — Maria, Cab Calloway (50) — Sportin' Life, Scatman Crothers (17) — Crab Man, Earl Jackson (2) — MIngo, Inez Matthews (6) — dubs Ruth Attaway (Serena), Robert McFerrin (2) — dubs Sidney Poitier (Porgy), Clarence Muse (7) — Peter, Loulie Jean Norman (15) — dubs Diahann Carroll (Clara), Brock Peters (14) — Crown, Leslie Scott (4) — Jake, Helen Thigpen (5) — Strawberry Woman
Notes: Cab Calloway subs for the film's Sammy Davis Jr. who was under exclusive contract to another label.
Shortcode: [r358]

Releases (5)

Format: CD
Label: Banda Sonora
Released: 2018-06-22
Barcode: 5056083202416
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# Tracks: 23
Lists: 2 collectors / 2 wish lists
Shortcode: [rl60517]

1. Overture
2. Summertime
3. A Woman Is a Sometime Thing
4. The Wake
5. Gone, Gone, Gone
6. Porgy's Prayer
7. My Man's Gone Now
8. I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
9. Bess, You Is My Woman Now
10. Morning
11. Catfish Row
12. I Can't Sit Down
13. It Ain't Necessarily So
14. I Ain't Got No Shame
15. What You Want With Bess?
16. Strawberry Woman
17. Crab Man
18. I Loves You, Porgy
19. A Red-headed Woman
20. Clara, Clara
21. There's a Boat That's Leavin' Soon for New York
22. Oh, Where's My Bess?
23. I'm On My Way

Format: CD
Label: Hallmark
Released: 2010-05-24
Barcode: 5050457091521
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Notes: Budget-priced UK public domain release.
# Tracks: 19
Lists: 11 collectors / 1 wish list
Shortcode: [rl30365]

1. Overture
2. Summertime
3. A Woman Is A Sometime Thing
4. The Wake: Gone, Gone, Gone; Pory's Prayer
5. My Man's Gone Now
6. I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
7. Bess, You Is My Woman Now
8. Morning; Catfish Row
9. I Can't Sit Down
10. It Ain't Necessarily So
11. I Ain't Got No Shame
12. What You Want With Bess?
13. Street Cries: Strawberry Woman; Crab Man
14. I Loves You, Porgy
15. A Red Headed Woman
16. Clara, Clara
17. There's A Boat That's Leavin' Soon For New York
18. Oh, Where's My Bess?
19. I'm On My Way

Format: CD
Label: CBS
Released: 1989-12-18
Barcode: 5099707000722
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Lists: 17 collectors / 1 wish list
Shortcode: [rl25235]

Format: CD
Label: Back Bite
Released: 1995-05-08
Barcode: 4017914610467
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# Tracks: 19
Lists: 10 collectors / 0 wish lists
Shortcode: [rl14798]

1. Overture
2. Summertime
3. Woman Is A Sometime Thing
4. Wake- Gone, Gone, Gone- Porgy's Prayer
5. My Man's Gone Now
6. I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
7. Bess, You Is My Woman Now
8. Morning; Catfish Row
9. I Can't Sit Down
10. It Ain't Necessarily So
11. I Ain't Got No Shame
12. What Do You Want With Bess-
13. Street Cries; Strawberry Woman; Crab Man
14. I Loves You, Porgy
15. Red-Headed Woman
16. Clara, Clara
17. There's A Boat That's Leavin' Soon For New York
18. Oh, Where's My Bess-
19. I'm On My Way