Album Description: This Classic of Vocal Jazz from the Bethlehem Records Catalog is Back in Print!
Bethlehem Records was a New York–based independent record label active in the 1950s and ’60s. It boasted an impressive array of jazz talent, including Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Charles Mingus, Mel Tormé, Dexter Gordon, and many others. Shout! Factory is proud to be reissuing some of the key Bethlehem albums.
This ambitious Bethlehem album from 1956 was the second-ever complete recording of Gershwin’s classic opera Porgy and Bess, but it was the first to use jazz singers and players. Featuring such jazz greats as Duke Ellington, Mel Tormé, Johnny Hartman and Frank Rosolino, it inspired other landmark jazz recordings of the opera, including the classic instrumental LP by Miles Davis and Gil Evans. However, the original Bethlehem recording remains the definitive vocal version.
Disc 1:
Introduction/Summertime
Narration Porgy And Bess - George Gershwin
Summertime - Betty Roche
Narration Porgy And Bess
Woman Is A Sometime Thing - Frank Rosolino
Narration/Here Come De Honey Man... - Joe Derise
Narration Porgy And Bess
Evenin' Ladies, Hello Boys... - Mel Torme
Narration Porgy And Bess
No, No, Brother, Porgy Ain't No Soft On Woman... - Mel Torme
Narration Porgy And Bess - Russ Garcia And His Orchestra
Narration Porgy And Bess
Gone, Gone, Gone
Overflow, Overflow - Mel Torme
Narration Porgy And Bess
I Can't Puzzle This Thing Out - Mel Torme
Narration Porgy And Bess
My Man's Gone Now - Sallie Blair
Narration Porgy And Bess
Oh The Train Is At The Station
Narration Porgy And Bess
Oh I'm Agoin' Out To The Blackfish Banks - Frank Rosolino
Narration Porgy And Bess
I Got Plenty O' Nuttin - The Pat Moran Quartet
Mornin', Lawyer, Lookin' For Somebody? - George kirby
Buzzard Song - Mel Torme
Narration Porgy And Bess
Bess, You Is My Woman Now - Frances Faye
Oh, I Can't Sit Down (Picnic Music) - Don Fagerquist
Porgy, I Hates To Go - Frances Faye
I Got Plenty O' Nuttin (Reprise) - Mel Torme
It Ain't Necessarily So (Instrumental) - Russ Garcia
Narration Porgy And Bess
It Ain't Necessarily So - George kirby
Narration Porgy And Bess
What You Want Wid Bess? - Johnny Hartman
Narration Porgy And Bess
Oh, I'm Agoin' Out To The Blackfish Banks (Reprise) - Frank Rosolino
Narration Porgy And Bess
Oh, Doctor Jesus - Sallie Blair
Here Come De Honeyman.../Oh Dey's So Fresh And Fine.../I'm Talkin' About
Disc 2:
Narration Porgy And Bess
I Loves You, Porgy - Frances Faye
Narration Porgy And Bess - Russ Garcia And His Orchestra
Summertime (Reprise) - Betty Roche
Narration Porgy And Bess
Oh, Dere's Somebody Kockin' At De Do'
Narration Porgy And Bess
If God Want To Kill Me - Johnny Hartman
Narration Porgy And Bess
Red-Headed Woman - Johnny Hartman
Narration Porgy And Bess
Oh, Doctor Jesus (Reprise)
Narration Porgy And Bess
Clara, Clara, Don't You Be Downhearted
Narration Porgy And Bess
Summertime
Narration Porgy And Bess
Oh, Lawd, What I Goin' Do?
Narration Porgy And Bess
There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York - George kirby
Narration Porgy And Bess - Russ Garcia And His Orchestra
Narration Porgy And Bess
How Are You Dis Mornin'?
Narration Porgy And Bess
Oh, Bess, Oh, Where's My Bess - Sallie Blair
Oh Lawd, I'm On My Way - Mel Torme
Porgy And Bess Suite - Russ Garcia And His Orchestra
Anything Goes Trivia
Trevor
Megaton Man
