PORGY AND BESS

Originally a 1935 opera written by George Gershwin, Porgy And Bess was made into a film in 1959 with Sidney Poitier playing Porgy and Dorothy Dandridge as Bess. These are not the voices you will hear on this album, however, for Robert McFerrin dubbed the singing voice of Sidney and Adele Addison did the same for Dorothy. Other actors in the film were also dubbed, including Diahann Carroll, although not surprisingly Sammy Davis Jr does his own singing!

1. Overture
2. Summertime
3. A Woman Is A Sometime Thing
4. The Wake: Gone, Gone, Gone; Pory's Prayer
5. My Man's Gone Now
6. I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
7. Bess, You Is My Woman Now
8. Morning; Catfish Row
9. I Can't Sit Down
10. It Ain't Necessarily So
11. I Ain't Got No Shame
12. What You Want With Bess?
13. Street Cries: Strawberry Woman; Crab Man
14. I Loves You, Porgy
15. A Red Headed Woman
16. Clara, Clara
17. There's A Boat That's Leavin' Soon For New York
18. Oh, Where's My Bess?
19. I'm On My Way