Gershwin: Porgy and Bess

1. 1
   Porgy and Bess (highlights): [Act I:] Introduction...Jasbo Brown Blues (Jasbo Brown, Chorus)
   4:21
2. 2
   Gershwin: Porgy and Bess, Act 1 Scene 1: "Summertime" (Clara, Girls of Chorus)
   3:06
3. 3
   Porgy and Bess (highlights): Give him to me...A woman is a sometime thing...Here come de honey man (Jake, Mingo, Sporting Life, Chorus, Baby, Clara, Robbins, Peter, Lily, Maria)
   3:41
4. 4
   Porgy and Bess, Act 1, Scene 2: "My man's gone now" (Serena, Chorus)
   3:59
5. 5
   Porgy and Bess, Act 1, Scene 2: "How de saucer stan' now, my sister? (Undertaker, Serena, Jake, Porgy)
   2:04
6. 6
   Porgy and Bess, Act 1, Scene 2: "Oh, the train is at the station (Bess, Chorus)
   4:11
7. 7
   Porgy and Bess (highlights): [Act II:] Oh, I'm agoin' out to the Blackfish banks...It take a long pull to get there (Jake, Chorus)
   3:27
8. 8
   Porgy and Bess, Act 2, Scene 1: "Mus' be you mens forgot about de picnic" - "Oh, I got plenty o' nuttin'" (Annie, Jake, Clara, Porgy, Serena, Maria, Chorus)
   3:26
9. 9
   Porgy and Bess (highlights): Lissen there, what I tells you...I hates yo' struttin' style (Maria, Serena, Sporting Life)
   2:33
10. 10
    Porgy and Bess, Act 2, Scene 1: The Buzzard Song. "Buzzard keep on flyin' over" (Porgy, Chorus)
    3:09
11. 11
    Porgy and Bess, Act 2, Scene 1: "Honey, we sure goin' strut our stuff today!" - "Bess, you is my woman now" (Jake, Porgy, Bess)
    6:15
12. 12
    Porgy and Bess, Act 2, Scene 1: "Oh, I can't sit down" (Maria, Bess, Porgy, Chorus)
    4:19
13. 13
    Porgy and Bess (highlights): It ain't necessarily so...Shame on all you sinners (Sporting Life, Chorus, Serena, Maria)
    6:06
14. 14
    Porgy and Bess, Act 2, Scene 2: "Oh, what you want wid Bess?" (Bess, Crown)
    4:18
15. 15
    Porgy and Bess (highlights): A red-headed woman make a choo-choo jump its track (Crown, Chorus, Clara, Bess)
    2:26
16. 16
    Porgy and Bess (highlights): [Act III:] Listen: there's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York (Sporting Life, Bess)
    4:26
17. 17
    Porgy and Bess, Act 3, Scene 3: "Dem white folks sure ain' put nuttin' over on this baby" (Porgy, Lily)
    4:01
18. 18
    Porgy and Bess, Act 3, Scene 3: "Here Mingo, what's de matter wid you all?" (Porgy)
    1:42
19. 19
    Porgy and Bess (highlights): Maria, Maria, where's Bess? (Porgy, Maria, Serena)
    3:12
20. 20
    Porgy and Bess, Act 3, Scene 3: "Bess is gone" (Lily, Porgy, Serena, Mingo, Maria, Clara, Chorus)
    1:49
21. 21
    Porgy and Bess, Act 3, Scene 3: "Oh Lawd, I'm on my way" (Porgy, Chorus)
    1:34

A Warner Classics Release, © 1989 Parlophone Records Limited

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