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Album Title: The Complete Verve Recordings, Disc 3 (Porgy & Verve 1997 Rating: ****

Bess)
Prime Artist: Ella Fitzgerald / Louis Armstrong
Arranger: Russell Garcia
Vocal: Ella Fitzgerald
Vocal: Louis Armstrong
Producer: Norman Granz
Conductor: Russell Garcia
From the Show: Porgy and Bess 1935 (S)
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Review: These two voices are as different as night and day, and putting them together

makes for a remarkably pleasant blending. This little 'box set' is pretty good

throughout.
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What Others Say:
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Tracks: 1 Overture (Porgy & Bess)

2 Summertime

3 I Wants To Stay Here

4 My Man's Gone Now

5 I Got Plenty o' Nuttin

6 The Buzzard Song

7 Bess, You Is My Woman Now

8 It Ain't Necessarily So

9 What You Want wid Bess?

10 A Woman Is a Sometime Thing

11 Oh, Doctor Jesus

12 Here Come de Honey Man

12.1 Crab Man

12.2 Oh, Dey's So Fresh and Fine

13 There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York

14 Oh, Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?

15 Oh, Lawd, I'm On My Way
. Tracks with a trailing * are missing lyrics in the linked files
Album Length (hrs:min): 1:05 Mag: 75.2
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