GEORGE GERSHWIN

Porgy & Bess

139:17

COMPACT DISC ONE

Act 1 Scene 1

1

Introduction – 'Summertime'

8:09

2

'A woman is a sometime thing'

2:09

3

'Here come de honey man'

2:43

4

'They pass by singin''

5:54

5

'Oh, little stars; Touch that money an' meety yo' Gawd'

2:16

6

'Wake up an' hit it out'

2:32

Act 1 Scene 2

7

'Gone, gone, gone'

3:21

8

'Overflow, overflow'

2:19

9

'Um! A saucer-burial steput, I see'

3:31

10

'May Man's gone now'

3:30

11

'How de saucer stan' now, my sister?'

1:42

12

'Oh, the train is at the station'

0:55

13

'Oh, he's gone, gone, gone'

1:35

Act 2 Scene 1

14

'It takes a long pull go get there'

2:41

15

'Oh, I got plenty o'nuttin''

2:44

16

'Mornin', Lawyer, lookin' for somebody?'

7:05

17

'Bess, you is my woman now'

4:31

18

'I stayin' with Porgy'

1:01

19

'Oh, I can't sit down'

2:07

20

'Goodbye, Porgy!'

1:21

COMPACT DISC TWO

Act 2 Scene 2

1

'I ain' got no shame'

1:41

2

'It ain't necessarily so'

4:45

3

'Tell me…'

2:34

4

'Oh… What you want wid Bess?'

3:00

Act 2 Scene 3

5

Interlude

2:57

6

'Honey, dat's all de breakfast I got time for'

4:48

7

'Oh, doctor Jesus'

1:55

8

'O dey's so fresh an' fine'

2:03

9

'I'm talkin' about devil crabs'

1:58

10

'Porgy, Porgy, dat you there'

2:04

11

'I wants to stay here'

2:46

12

'What you stand and watchin' for, Clara?'

2:28

Act 2 Scene 4

13

'Oh, de Lawd shake de Heavens'

2:21

14

'Oh, dere's somebody knockin' at de do''

3:41

15

'A red-headed woman'

0:54

16

'What's de matter?'

2:39

Act 3 Scene 1

17

'Clara, Clara, don't you be downhearted'

6:13

18

Interlude (Death of Crown)

1:04

Act 3 Scene 2

19

Introduction

1:35

20

'Wait for us at the corner, Al'

6:20

21

'Oh, Gawd! They goin' make him look on Crown's face!'

1:22

22

'There's a boat dat's leavin''

3:33

Act 3 Scene 3

23

Introduction

1:01

24

'Thank Gawd I's home again!'

8:18

25

'Oh, Bess, oh where's my Bess'

5:02

William Warfield Porgy

Leontyne Price Bess

Cab Calloway Sporting Life

John McCurry Crown

Joseph James Jake

Helen Colbert Clara

Howard Roberts Robbins

Helen Thigpen Serena

Leslie Scott Jim

Moses Lamar Frazier

William Weasey Undertaker

Walter Riemann Detective

Helen Dowdy Strawberry woman

Ray Yates Crab man

Alexander Smallens

21 September 1952