Highlights from Porgy and Bess > Studio Cast


Show Details

Show
Porgy and Bess (110)
Music
George Gershwin (857)
Lyrics
Ira Gershwin (709), DuBose Heyward (106)
Book
DuBose Heyward (106)

Recording Details

Date
October 1935
Type
Audio / Stage Cast
Language
English
Liner Notes
Harper MacKay (5)
Conductor
Nathaniel Shilkret (43) — conducts "My Man's Gone Now", Alexander Smallens (9)
Performer
Helen Jepson (4), Lawrence Tibbett (22)
Notes
This album uses the original theatre orchestra and chorus but features Lawrence Tibbett and Helen Jepson in the title roles.
Shortcode
[r6486]

Releases

Format
4-78
Label
RCA Victor C 25 (11878, 11879, 11880, 11881)
Released
1935
Lists
12 collectors / 0 wish lists
Shortcode
[rl8634]
1. Lullaby: Summertime
2. Summertime and Crap Game / A Woman is a Sometime Thing
3. My Man's Gone Now
4. I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
5. Buzzard Song
6. Bess, You is My Woman Now
7. It Ain't Necessarily So
8. Where is My Bess?