Porgy & Bess

Album by Ray Charles & Cleo Laine

Porgy & Bess is a collaborative album by Ray Charles and Cleo Laine that interprets selections from George Gershwin’s opera in jazz and R&B styles. It features duet vocals with orchestral backing.
First released: 1989

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Summer Time
    6:16
  2. 2.
    My Man’s Gone Now
    4:42
  3. 3.
    A Woman Is a Sometime Thing
    2:45
  4. 4.
    They Pass by Singin’
    3:04
  5. 5.
    What You Want Wid Bess?
    2:24
  6. 6.
    I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’
    3:52
  7. 7.
    Buzzard Song
    3:24
  8. 8.
    Bess, You Is My Woman
    5:29
  9. 9.
    Oh, Doctor Jesus
    2:13
  10. 10.
    Crab Man
    1:44
  11. 11.
    Here Come De Honey Man
    1:23
  12. 12.
    Strawberry Woman (instrumental)
    0:55
  13. 13.
    Strawberry Woman
    1:19
  14. 14.
    It Ain’t Necessarily So
    4:17
  15. 15.
    There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York
    3:24
  16. 16.
    I Loves You, Porgy
    5:03
  17. 17.
    Oh, Bess, Oh Where’s My Bess (instrumental)
    3:23
  18. 18.
    Oh, Bess, Oh Where’s My Bess
    3:36
  19. 19.
    Oh Lord, I’m on My Way
    3:19