George Gershwin – Porgy & Bess – Ella & Louis (1957)

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

•Louis Armstrong - Vocals, Trumpet
•Ella Fitzgerald - Vocals
•Paul Smith - Piano
•Alvin Stoller – Drums

Orchestra & Chorus: 
Vincent DeRosa - French horn
Frank Beach - Trumpet
Buddy Childers - Trombone
Cappy Lewis
Milt Bernhart
Marshall Cram
James Henderson
Lloyd Ulyate
Victor Arno - Violin
Robert Barene
Jacques Gasselin
Joseph Livoti
Dan Lube
Amerigo Marino
Bill Miller
Erno Neufeld
Marshall Sosson
Robert Sushel
Gerald Vinci
Tibor Zelig
Myron Bacon - Viola
Abraham Hochstein
Raymond Menhennick
Myron Sandler
Justin Di Tullio - Cello
Kurt Reher
William Van Den Burg
Tony Rizzi - Guitar
Joe Mondragon - Double Bass

Russel Garcia – conductor

There have been many recordings of the music from the Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess, but this is one of the more rewarding ones. Louis Armstrong and Ella Fitzgerald sing all of the parts, performing 16 of the play's best melodies. Unfortunately, there is not much Armstrong trumpet to be heard, but the vocals are excellent and occasionally wonderful, making up for the unimaginative Russ Garcia arrangements assigned to the backup orchestra. ---Scott Yanow, allmusic.com

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