Porgy And Bess - The Original Cast Album

It Takes A Long Pull To Get There

Selections From George Gershwin's Folk Opera
Porgy And Bess
George Gershwin, Du Bose Heyward & Ira Gershwin
The Original Cast Album
Featuring Todd Ducan, Anne Brown, The Eva Jessye Choir, Edward Matthews, Helen Dowdy, William Woolfolk & Avon Long
Decca Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Smallens, Conductor
Decca Records DL 9024
1962

Act 1 – Scene 1
Overture and Summertime (Anna Brown)
A Woman Is A Sometime Thing (Edward Matthews assisted by Harriet Jackson with Eva Jessye Choir)
Introducing Summertime
Act 1 – Scene 2
My Man's Gone Now (Anne Brown with Eva Jessye Choir
Act 2 – Scene 1
It Take A Long Pull To Get There (Edward Matthews)
I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' (Todd Duncan with Eva Jessye Choir)
Buzzard Song (Todd Duncan with Eva Jessye Choir)
Bess You Is My Woman (Todd Duncan and Anne Brown with Eva Jessye Choir)
What You Want Wid Bess? (Anne Brown and Todd Duncan)
Act 2 – Scene 3 (Street Cries)
(a) Strawberry Woman's Call (Helen Dowdy assisted by Gladys Goode)
(b) Crab Man's Call (William Woolfolk assisted by Georgette Harvey)
I Loves You, Porgy (Todd Duncan and Anne Brown)
Act 3 – Scene 1
The Requiem (Eva Jessye Choir)
Act 3 – Scene 2
There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York (Avon Long and Anne Brown)
Act 3 – Scene 3
Porgy's Lament and Finale (Todd Duncan with Eva Jessye Choir)