• 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...
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  • 1925 novel Porgy (fish), a common name for fishes in the family Sparidae Porgy Key, a small island in the Florida Keys Porgy (album) Porgy and Bess (disambiguation)...
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  • "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 in...
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  • Porgy is the second studio album by the American band When People Were Shorter and Lived Near the Water, released in 1991 by Shimmy Disc. It contains covers...
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  • 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...
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  • of the album Selections from George Gershwin's Folk Opera Porgy and Bess in 1942. The duet occurs in act 2, scene 3, Catfish Row, where Porgy promises...
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  • 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...
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  • month. However, in May Bethlehem finally released a single, "I Loves You, Porgy" and gave Simone her first hit later that year, peaking at number 18 on...
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  • Porgy & Bess is a 1997 album by the jazz saxophonist Joe Henderson, released on Verve Records. It contains Henderson's arrangements of music from George...
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  • Porgy and Bess is an album by Harry Belafonte and Lena Horne, released by RCA Victor in 1959. It features songs from George Gershwin's opera Porgy and...
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  • includes the hit singles "Hold the Line", "I'll Supply the Love" and "Georgy Porgy", all three of which made it into the top 50 in the US. "Hold the Line"...
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  • Summertime (George Gershwin song) (category Songs from Porgy and Bess)
    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...
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  • Romance" [Take 2] 7:15 "Some Other Time" 5:11 "Milestones" 6:30 "Porgy (I Loves You, Porgy)" 5:58 Note on the alternate takes: "For this CD release, alternate...
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  • solo songs. The album was reissued twice by AEI, as Cabin In The Sky/Porgy And Bess (AEI 1107, 1979 LP), and as Cabin In The Sky/Porgy And Bess/Carib Song...
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  • opera Porgy and Bess (1950 album), a recording of selections from the opera featuring Risë Stevens and Robert Merrill Porgy and Bess (1951 album), the...
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  • Joey. Although there had been an album of Porgy and Bess since 1940, there had never been a 3-LP version. The 1951 album set contained more than two-thirds...
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  • Porgy and Bess is a 1959 album by Sammy Davis Jr. of selections from George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess co-starring Carmen McRae. Davis is accompanied...
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  • of Porgy and Frances Faye the role of Bess. The Ellington Orchestra plays "Summertime" as the overture, but does not appear elsewhere on the album. Originally...
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    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...
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  • Porgy and Bess is a 1976 album by pianist Oscar Peterson and guitarist Joe Pass featuring music from George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess. This is the...
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  • Gershwin's folk opera Porgy and Bess consists of two volumes of records, the first from 1940, and the next from 1942. The 1940 album was the first to record...
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  • This album is a 1950 recording of selections from George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess, sung by the noted opera stars Robert Merrill and Risë Stevens...
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  • Collections in 2006 and as Toto in 2009. Hold the Line Rosanna Africa Georgy Porgy Live for Today 99 Without Your Love St. George and the Dragon Isolation...
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  • Gershwin's Porgy and Bess is an album by the American jazz group the Modern Jazz Quartet performing the score to George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess...
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  • (Steve Lukather, Paich) Medley: (Toto) "Waiting for Your Love" "Georgy Porgy" "Lion" "Hydra" "English Eyes" "Till the End" "I Won't Hold You Back" (Lukather)...
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  • Oscar Peterson Plays Porgy & Bess is a 1959 studio album by Oscar Peterson, playing selections from George Gershwin's 1935 opera, Porgy and Bess. "I Got Plenty...
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  • You Porgy" is a song from George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess (George & Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward). It was first recorded by Simone on her debut album Little...
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  • Ella and Louis (category Album articles lacking alt text for covers)
    three albums that Fitzgerald and Armstrong were to record together for Verve Records, later followed by 1957's Ella and Louis Again and 1959's Porgy and...
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  • time, themselves adding up to a kind of "lost album" of approximately 40 minutes. Four of the songs - Porgy, I Is Your Woman Now, Baubles, Bangles and Beads...
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  • Loves You, Porgy" / "Porgy, I's Your Woman Now (Bess, You Is My Woman)" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) – 4:35 from Porgy and Bess "Somewhere"...
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