Thursday, October 9, 2008

Porgy And Bess - Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong (1957)

Porgy & Bess is an album recorded in 1957 by the two famous person: vocalist and trumpeter Louis Armstrong and the jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, the collaboration on this recording of selections from George and Ira Gershwin's opera "Porgy and Bess". It was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2001.

Track listing

  1. "Overture" (George Gershwin) – 10:52
  2. "Summertime" – 4:58
  3. "I Wants to Stay Here" – 4:38
  4. "My Man's Gone Now" – 4:02
  5. "I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'" – 3:52
  6. "Buzzard Song" – 2:58
  7. "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" – 5:28
  8. "It Ain't Necessarily So" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) – 6:34
  9. "What You Want Wid Bess?" – 1:59
  10. "Woman Is a Sometime Thing" – 4:47
  11. "Oh, Doctor Jesus" – 2:00
  12. Medley: "Here Come de Honey Man"/"Crab Man"/"Oh, Dey's So Fresh and Fine" – 3:29
  13. "There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York" – 4:54
  14. "Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?" – 2:36
  15. "Oh, Lawd, I'm on My Way!" – 2:57

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