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

Format

Cassette

Label

CBS/Masterworks PST 02016

Barcode

07464020164

# Tracks

19

Lists

3 collectors / 0 wish lists

Shortcode

[rl17091]

Side 1:
1. Overture
2. Summertime
3. Woman Is a Sometime Thing
4. The 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
Side 2:
1. Morning; Catfish Row
2. I Can't Sit Down
3. It Ain't Necessarily So
4. I Ain't Got No Shame
5. What You Want With Bess
6. Street Cries; Strawberry Woman; Crab Man
7. I Loves You, Porgy
8. A Red-Headed Woman
9. Clara, Clara
10. There's a Boat That's Leavin' Soon For New York
11. Oh, Where's My Bess
12. I'm On My Way