Porgy and Bess (Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne album)


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.

Track listing

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

    Personnel

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