Porgy and Bess

Album by George Gershwin

Porgy and Bess is a folk opera by American composer George Gershwin, premiered in 1935. Blending elements of classical composition with jazz, blues and African American spirituals, it represents Gershwin's effort to fuse popular and concert music and occupies an important place in the history of American musical theatre and opera.

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  1. 1.
    Overture and Summertime
    3:42
  2. 2.
    A Woman Is a Sometime Thing / Introducing Summertime
    2:49
  3. 3.
    My Man's Gone Now
    4:07
  4. 4.
    It Take a Long Pull to Get There
    2:09
  5. 5.
    I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'
    2:45
  6. 6.
    Buzzard Song
    3:48
  7. 7.
    Bess, You Is My Woman
    4:36
  8. 8.
    It Ain't Necessaryily So
    2:49
  9. 9.
    What You Want Wid Bess?
    3:03
  10. 10.
    Strawberry Woman's Call / Crab Man's Call
    3:07
  11. 11.
    I Loves You, Porgy
    3:27
  12. 12.
    The Requiem
    4:00
  13. 13.
    There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York
    3:04
  14. 14.
    Porgy's Lament and Finale
    3:23
  15. 15.
    I Got Plenty o' Nuttin'
    2:33

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