PORGY AND BESS, George Gershwin
1 Summertime 2.41
with Helen Jepson (soprano)
Rec: 23 Oct 1935 Matrix: CS-95465-1 Victor Cat: 11881
2 Summertime & Crap Game, A Woman Is A Sometime Thing 3.32
with Helen Jepson (soprano)
Rec: 23 Oct 1935 Matrix: CS-95387-1 Victor Cat: 11879
3 My Man's Gone Now 4.22
with Helen Jepson (soprano)
Rec: 23 Oct 1935 Matrix: CS-95683-2 Victor Cat: 11881
4 I Got Plenty O' Nuttin' 3.19
Rec: 23 Oct 1935 Matrix: CS-95390-2 Victor Cat: 11880
5 The Buzzard Song 4.02
Rec: 14 Oct 1935 Matrix: CS-95389-1 Victor Cat: 11878 with Chorus
6 Bess You Is My Woman Now 5.11
with Helen Jepson (soprano)
Rec: 14 Oct 1935 Matrix: CS-95388-1 Victor Cat: 11879
7 It Ain't Necessarily So 3.13
Rec: 23 Oct 1935 Matrix: CS-95466-1 Victor Cat: 11878 with Chorus
8 Where Is My Bess? 3.23
Rec: 23 Oct 1935 Matrix: CS-95467-1 Victor Cat: 11880
9 EMPEROR JONES, Louis Gruenberg, Oh Lord! ... Standin' In The Need Of Prayer 4.54
Rec: 19 Jan 1934 Matrix: CS-81087-2A Victor Cat: 7959
with The Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra, Wilfred Pelletier conductor
10 MERRY MOUNT, Howard Hanson, Oh, 'Tis An Earth Defiled 4.43
Rec: 19 Jan 1934 Matrix: CS-81086-1 Victor Cat: 7959
with The Metropolitan Opera House Orchestra, Wilfred Pelletier conductor
THE ROGUE SONG, Clifford Grey & Herbert Stothart
11 The Rogue Song 3.31
Rec: 13 Jan 1930 Matrix: BVE-58187-1 Victor Cat: 1446
12 The Narrative 3.26
Rec: 13 Jan 1930 Matrix: BVE-58188-3 Victor Cat: 1446
13 (arr. Franz Lehár), The White Dove 3.54
Rec: 15 Jan 1930 Matrix: BVE-58196-3 Victor Cat: 1447
14 When I'm Looking At You 4.00
Rec: 15 Jan 1930 Matrix: BVE-58195-2 Victor Cat: 1447
15 THE PRODIGAL, Rose Eliscu & Vincent Youmans, Without A Song 3.48
Rec: 6 Mar 1931 Matrix: BVE-67492-2 Victor Cat: 1507
16 Arthur Freed & Oskar Straus, Life Is A Dream 3.53
Rec: 6 Mar 1931 Matrix: BVE-67493-2 Victor Cat: 1507
BALLADS
17 Clement Wood & Jaques Wolfe, De Glory Road 4.59
Rec: 10 Dec 1931 Matrix: CVE-68331-3 Victor Cat: 7486 with Stewart Wille, piano
18 Stephen C. Foster (arr. Bourdon), Old Black Joe 3.50
Rec: 31 Mar 1927 Matrix: BVE-37880-3 Victor Cat: 1265
with Shannon Quartet, Lapitino - harp, Bourdon conductor
19 Williams Arms Fisher, Goin' Home 5.17
Rec: 19 Oct 1936 Matrix: CS-02176-1 Victor Cat: 15549
adapted from Largo movement, Dvorák's Symphony 'From the New World'
Alexander Smallens, conductor
