Porgy and Bess (Selections): Original Cast and Other Early Recordings (Recorded 1935–1942)

Paul Robeson

compilation·2003·45 tracks·2 hr 17 min

Naxos Historical· 8.110219–20

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Tracks

45 tracks

Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene 1. Overture

1:08

Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene 1. Summertime

2:26

Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene 1. Summertime and Crap Game

1:04

Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene 1. A Woman Is a Sometime Thing

1:40

Porgy and Bess: Act I, Scene 2. My Man’s Gone Now

3:53

Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene 1. It Takes a Long Pull to Get There

2:07

Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene 1. I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’

2:41

Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene 1. Buzzard Song

3:41

Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene 1. Bess, You Is My Woman Now

4:29

Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene 2. It Ain’t Necessarily So

2:45

Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene 2. What You Want Wid’ Bess

2:58

Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene 3. Street Cries: Strawberry Woman’s Call / Crab Man’s Call

3:04

Porgy and Bess: Act II, Scene 3. I Loves You, Porgy

3:21

Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene 1. The Requiem

3:52

Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene 2. There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York

3:00

Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene 3. Porgy’s Lament (Where Is My Bess?)

1:56

Porgy and Bess: Act III, Scene 3. Finale (I’m on My Way)

1:21

It Ain’t Necessarily So

2:42

A Woman Is a Sometime Thing

2:35

Summertime

2:35

There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York

2:45

I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’

2:34

Bess, You Is My Woman

3:12

I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’

2:56

It Ain’t Necessarily So

2:52