Track Listing
DISC 1:
1. Introduction / Summertime - (with Russ Garcia Orchestra/Duke Ellington & His Orchestra)
2. Narration
3. Summertime - (with Betty Roche)
4. Narration
5. Woman Is a Sometime Thing, A - (with Frank Rosolino)
6. Narration / Here Comes De Honey Man... - (with Joe Derise)
7. Narration
8. Evenin' Ladies, Hello Boys... - (with Mel Tormé)
9. Narration
10. No, No, Brother, Porgy Ain's Soft on No Woman... - (with Mel Tormé)
11. Narration (Scene: Crap Game and Murder)
12. Narration
13. Gone, Gone, Gone
14. Overflow, Overflow - (with Mel Tormé)
15. Narration
16. I Can't Puzzle This Thing Out... - (with Mel Tormé)
17. Narration
18. My Man's Gone Now - (with Sallie Blair)
19. Narration
20. Oh the Train Is at the Station...
21. Narration
22. Oh I'm Agoin' Out to the Blackfish Banks... - (with Frank Rosolino)
23. Narration
24. I Got Plenty of Nuttin' - (with Mel Tormé/Pat Moran Quartet)
25. Mornin', Lawyer, Looking For Somebody? - (with George Kirby/Pat Moran Quartet)
26. Buzzard Song - (with Mel Tormé)
27. Narration
28. Bess, You Is My Woman Now
29. Oh, I Can't Sit Down (Picnic Music) - (with Don Fagerquist Group/Betty Roche)
30. Porgy, I Hates to Go...
31. I Got Plenty O' Nuttin - (reprise, with Mel Tormé)
32. It Ain't Necessarily So - (TRUE instrumental, with Russ Garcia Orchestra/Betty Roche)
33. Narration
34. It Ain't Necessarily So - (with George Kirby)
35. Narration
36. What You Want Wid Bess?... - (with Johnny Hartman)
37. Narration
38. Oh I'm Agoin' Out to the Blackfish Banks... - (reprise, with Frank Rosolino)
39. Narration
40. Oh, Doctor Jesus... - (with Sallie Blair)
41. Here Come De Honey Man... / Oh Dey's So Fresh And Fine... / I'm Talkin' About Devil Crabs... - (with Joe Derise/Loulie Jean Norman/Bob Dorough)
DISC 2:
1. Narration
2. I Loves You Porgy
3. Narration (Scene: Storm)
4. Summertime - (reprise, with Betty Roche)
5. Narration
6. Oh, Dere's Sombody Knockin' at de Do'...
7. Narration
8. If God Want to Kill Me... - (with Johnny Hartman)
9. Narration
10. Red-Headed Woman..., A - (with Johnny Hartman)
11. Narration
12. Oh, Doctor Jesus - (reprise)
13. Narration
14. Clara, Clara, Don't You Be Downhearted - (with Pat Moran Quartet)
15. Narration
16. Summertime - (reprise, with Betty Roche)
17. Narration
18. Oh, Lawd, What I Goin' Do?...
19. Narration
20. There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York - (with George Kirby)
21. Narration
22. Narration
23. How Are You Dis Mornin'?...
24. Narration
25. Oh, Bess, Oh, Where's My Bess - (with Mel Tormé/Sallie Blair)
26. Oh Lawd, I'm on My Way - (with Mel Tormé)
27. Porgy and Bess Suite - (TRUE instrumental, bonus track, with Russ Garcia/The Bethlehem Orchestra)
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Betty Roche, Clark Terry, Duke Ellington, Herbie Mann, Johnny Hartman, Johnny Hodges, Maynard Ferguson, Sal Salvador | | Distributor: | WEA (Distributor) | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
PORGY AND BESS includes narration by Al "Jazzbo" Collins interspersed with the songs.
Cast includes: Mel Torme (Porgy); Francis Faye (Bess); Betty Roche (Clara); George Kirby (Sportin' Life); Johnny Hartman (Crown); Sallie Blair (Serena); Frank Rosolino (Jake); Loulie Jean Norman (Strawberry Woman); Joe Derise (Honey Man); Bob Dorough (Crab Man).
Personnel includes: Russ Garcia (arranger, conductor); Johnny Hodges, Russell Procope (alto saxophone); Paul Gonsalves, Jimmy Hamilton (tenor saxophone); Harry Carney (baritone saxophone); "Cat" Anderson, Maynard Ferguson, Clark Terry, Ray Nance, Willie Cook (trumpet); John Sanders, Quentin Jackson, Britt Woodman (trombone); Dick Healey (flute, clarinet); Herbie Mann, Sam Most (flute); Bill Holman (clarinet); Alvin Stoller (vibraphone, drums, percussion); Duke Ellington, Ralph Sharon (piano); Sal Salvador (guitar); Jimmy Woode, Max Bennett (bass); Sam Woodyard, Stan Levey (drums); The Duke Ellington Orchestra, The Bethlehem Orchestra, The Australian Jazz Quintet, The Pat Moran Quartet, The Stan Levey Group.
Producer: Red Clyde.
Reissue producers: Tom Moulton, Greg Vaughn.
Includes a 48-page booklet with liner notes by J.F. Quinn, Art Hilgart and Joseph F. Laredo.
Digitally remastered from original session tapes by Tom Moulton and Greg Vaughn (Frankford Wayne Mastering Labs, New York, New York).
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