Album US 1959 on RCA Victor label
Jazz and Pop (Vocal)
Label variation with 5 lines for A-side tracklist, and B-side label correctly credits Chorus for B2, not B4. A very similar release, Porgy And Bess, has 4 lines and the Chorus credit for B4. "I" stamped in runouts denotes an RCA Records Pressing Plant, Indianapolis pressing. LOP-1507 on sleeve; LOP 1507 on labels. Info from back cover: Together for the first time... HARRY BELAFONTE and LENA HORNE in the own interpretation of songs from GERSHWIN'S PORGY and BESS Recorded in RCA Victor's Studio A, New York City, February and March, 1959.
Lena Horne voc, 1917-2010 US vocals, album by | |
Harry Belafonte voc, *1927 US vocals, album by | |
Bob Corman voc, *1922 US arranged by | |
Lennie Hayton p, 1908-1971 US arranged by | |
Bob Corman's Orchestra , orchestra | |
Lennie Hayton And His Orchestra , orchestra | |
Bob Corman's Orchestra And Chorus , orchestra |
Ernest Oelrich engineer |
Bob Bollard producer |
Fred Reynolds producer |
No | Title | Artist | Composer | Duration | |
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1 | A Woman Is A Sometime Thing | Harry Belafonte | DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin | 2:40 | |
2 | Summertime | Lena Horne | DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin | 3:11 | |
3 | Oh, I Got Plenty Of Nothin' | Harry Belafonte | DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin | 3:00 | |
4 | I Wants To Stay Here | Lena Horne | DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin | 3:30 | |
5 | Bess, You Is My Woman | Lena Horne | DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin | 5:57 | |
6 | It Ain't Necessarily So | Lena Horne | George & Ira Gershwin | 3:03 | |
7 | Street Calls | Lena Horne / Harry Belafonte | 4:17 | ||
8 | Strawberry Woman | Harry Belafonte | DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin | ||
9 | The Honey Man | Harry Belafonte | DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin | ||
10 | Crab Man | Harry Belafonte | DuBose Heyward, George & Ira Gershwin | ||
11 | My Man's Gone Now | Lena Horne | DuBose Heyward, George Gershwin | 4:05 | |
12 | Bess, Oh Where's My Bess? | Harry Belafonte | George & Ira Gershwin | 3:36 | |
13 | There's A Boat That's Leavin' Soon For New York | Lena Horne | George & Ira Gershwin | 2:37 |
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