Look up porgy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Porgy may refer to: Porgy (novel), a 1925 novel by DuBose Heyward Porgy (play), a 1927 play by Dorothy...

Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward's play Porgy, itself an adaptation of DuBose Heyward's 1925 novel Porgy. Porgy and Bess was first performed in Boston...

Porgy is a novel written by the American author DuBose Heyward and published by the George H. Doran Company in 1925. The novel tells the story of Porgy...

"Georgy Porgy" (/ˈpɔːrdʒi/) is a song by American rock band Toto. It was written by band member David Paich and included on their self-titled debut album...

The salema porgy (Sarpa salpa), also known as the dreamfish, salema, cow bream, karanteen, salpa, saupe, strepie or goldline, is a species of marine ray-finned...

Porgy and Bess is an opera by George Gershwin. Porgy and Bess may also refer to: Highlights from Porgy and Bess, a 1935 recording of selections from the...

Georgy Porgy (/ˈpɔːrdʒi/) may refer to: "Georgie Porgie", the traditional nursery rhyme "Georgy Porgy" (song) by Toto featuring Cheryl Lynn Georgie Porgie...

The red porgy (Pagrus pagrus), also known as the common seabream or Couch's bream, is a species of marine ray-finned fish in the family Sparidae. It is...

ray-finned fishes belonging to the order Spariformes, the seabreams and porgies, although they were traditionally classified in the order Perciformes....

George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, and Ira...

Porgy is the common name in Australia for any fish which belongs to the family Sparidae. They are also called bream. Porgies live in shallow temperate...

The sheepshead porgy (Calamus penna), also known as the littlemouth porgy or speckled porgy, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family...

"I Loves You, Porgy" is a duet from the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was performed in the opera's...

Porgy: A Play in Four Acts is a play by Dorothy Heyward and DuBose Heyward, adapted from the short novel by DuBose Heyward. It was first produced by the...

Porgy and Bess is a 1959 American musical drama film directed by Otto Preminger, and starring Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge in the titular roles...

jolthead porgy (Calamus bajonado) is an ocean-going species of fish in the family Sparidae. In Bermuda, it is known as the blue bone porgy, in the United...

Porgy and Bess (CL 1274) is a studio album by the jazz musician Miles Davis, released in March 1959 on Columbia Records. The album features arrangements...

1885 – June 16, 1940) was an American author best known for his 1925 novel Porgy. He and his wife Dorothy, a playwright, adapted it as a 1927 play of the...

Porgy and Bess is a studio album by jazz vocalist and trumpeter Louis Armstrong and singer Ella Fitzgerald, released on Verve Records in 1959. The third...

saucereye porgy (Calamus calamus) is an ocean-going species of fish in the family Sparidae. In Bermuda, they are also known as the goat's head porgy. In Jamaica...

seabream, black porgy or black seabream, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the family Sparidae, the seabreams and porgies. This species...

The pluma porgy (Calamus pennatula), also known as the West Indian porgy, pluma or pimento grunt, is a species of marine ray-finned fish belonging to the...

standards "Embraceable You" (1928) and "I Got Rhythm" (1930), and the opera Porgy and Bess (1935), which included the hit "Summertime". Gershwin studied piano...

with many other fish of the family Sparidae, it is also commonly known as porgy. Scup grow as large as 18 in (460 mm) and weigh 3–4 lb (1.4–1.8 kg), but...

originally tautauog (pl. of taut). It is also called a "black porgy" (cf. Japanese black porgy), "chub" (cf. the freshwater chub), "oyster-fish" (in North...

African-American woman, to direct and choreograph a major staging of the opera-musical Porgy and Bess. Clarke's production of the George Gershwin classic was staged...

The knobbed porgy (Calamus nodosus) is an ocean-going species of gamefish of the bream/porgy family, Sparidae. They are only found in the western portion...

The Borriqueta porgy (Boridia grossidens) is a species of marine ray-finned fish, a grunt belonging to the family Haemulidae. It is native to the Atlantic...

"Georgy Porgy" is a 1960 horror short story by Roald Dahl, collected in Kiss Kiss. The title is derived from "Georgie Porgie", a 19th-century English...

major opera company, Duncan is also noted for appearing as Porgy in the premier production of Porgy and Bess (1935). Duncan was born February 12, 1903, in...