George Gershwin – Porgy And Bess (The Original Cast Album)

Labels are maroon 4″ diameter with “DECCA STEREO” at top, and “THE ULTIMATE IN ☯ HIGH FIDELITY” “LONG PLAY” at bottom.
Fine print on labels includes: “Reg. U.S. PAT. OFF. MARCA REGISTRADA • MFR’D By Decca Records Inc., New York, U.S.A.” This label style ran circa: 1958-60.

This LP is not true stereo and has been electronically modified to simulate stereo. Cover notes: “enhanced for STEREO”

This version’s liner notes make reference to the 1955 U.S.S.R. tour that is missing from the liner notes of the earlier DL 9024 reissue using the original cover from the 1952 release under catalog number DL 8042.

A1. Anne Brown – Overture And Summertime
A2. Edward Matthews, Harriet Jackson, Eva Jessye Choir – A Woman Is A Sometime Thing (Introducing: Summertime)
A3. Anne Brown, Eva Jessye Choir – My Man’s Gone Now
A4. Edward Matthews – It Take A Long Pull To Get There
A5. Todd Duncan (3), Eva Jessye Choir – I Got Plenty O’ Nuttin’
A6. Todd Duncan (3), Eva Jessye Choir – Buzzard Song
A7. Todd Duncan (3), Anne Brown, Eva Jessye Choir – Bess, You Is My Woman
B1. Todd Duncan (3), Eva Jessye Choir – It Ain’t Necessarily So
B2. Anne Brown, Todd Duncan (3) – What Do You Want Wid Bess?
B3 (a). Helen Dowdy, Gladys Goode – Strawberry Woman’s Call
B3 (b). William Woolfolk, Georgette Harvey – Crab Man’s Call
B4. Todd Duncan (3), Anne Brown – I Loves You, Porgy
B5. Eva Jessye Choir – The Reqiuem
B6. Avon Long, Anne Brown – There’s A Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon For New York
B7. Todd Duncan (3), Eva Jessye Choir – Porgy’s Lament And Finale

 

Media Condition: Near Mint (NM or M-)

Sleeve Condition: Very Good Plus (VG+)

 

 

 

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Manufactured By Decca Records, Inc.
Pressed By Decca Records Pressing Plant, Gloversville

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