Porgy and Bess (Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne album) explained

Porgy and Bess
Type:	studio
Artist:	Harry Belafonte, Lena Horne
Cover:	Porgy and Bess (Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne album).jpg
Released:	1959
Recorded:	February and March 1959
Studio:	RCA Victor, New York City
Genre:	Jazz vocal
Length:	35:56
Label:	RCA Victor
Producer:	Bob Bollard, Fred Reynolds
Chronology:	Harry Belafonte
Prev Title:	Belafonte at Carnegie Hall
Prev Year:	1959
Next Title:	My Lord What a Mornin'
Next Year:	1960

Porgy and Bess is an album by Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne, released by RCA Victor in 1959. It features songs from George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess. Belafonte and Horne sing two songs together: "There's a Boat That's Leavin' Soon for New York" and "Bess, You Is My Woman Now". The album was re-issued on a 2-CD set in 2003 together with Jamaica by BMG Collectables in Stereo. The album was ranked No. 1 in Canada for 10 of the 11 weeks between August 31 and November 9, 1959.^{[1] [2]}

Track listing

All music composed by George Gershwin, lyricists indicated.

1. "A Woman is a Sometime Thing" (DuBose Heyward) – 2:40
2. "Summertime" (Heyward) – 3:11
3. "Oh I Got Plenty of Nothing" (Ira Gershwin, Heyward) – 3:00
4. "I Wants to Stay Here" (I. Gershwin, Heyward) – 3:30
5. "Bess, You Is My Woman Now" (I. Gershwin, Heyward) – 5:57
6. "It Ain't Necessarily So" (I. Gershwin) – 3:03
7. "Street Calls": "Strawberry Woman" / "The Honey Man" / "Crab Man" (Heyward) – 4:17
8. "My Man's Gone Now" – 4:05
9. "Bess, Oh Where's My Bess" (I. Gershwin) – 3:36
10. "There's a Boat That's Leavin' Soon for New York" – 2:37

Personnel

• Harry Belafonte – vocals
• Lena Horne – vocals

Production notes:

• Bob Bollard – producer
• Fred Reynolds – producer
• Lennie Hayton – arrangements, musical director
• Robert Corman – arrangements, musical director
• Ernest Oelrich – engineer
• Murray Laden – cover photo

Notes and References

1. Web site: CHUM Hit Parade - August 31, 1959.
2. Web site: CHUM Hit Parade - November 9, 1959.