Tracklist

A1	Overture	10:52
A2	Summertime	4:58
A3	I Wants To Stay Here	4:38
B1	My Man's Gone Now	4:02
B2	I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'	3:52
B3	Buzzard Song	2:58
B4	Bess, You Is My Woman Now	5:28
C1	It Ain't Necessarily So	6:34
C2	What You Want Wid Bess	1:59
C3	A Woman Is A Sometime Thing	4:47
C4	Oh, Doctor Jesus	2:00
Medley	(3:29)
D1a	Here Come De Honey Man
D1b	Crab Man
D1c	Oh, Dey's So Fresh & Fine
D2	There's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York	4:51
D3	Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?	2:36
D4	Oh, Lawd, I'm On My Way!	2:57

Credits

• Art Direction – Sheldon Marks
• Artwork By [Mosaic] – Joseph Young
• Conductor – Russell Garcia
• Illustration [Inner Gatefold] – David Stone Martin
• Liner Notes – Lawrence D. Stewart, Norman Granz
• Lyrics By – Du Bose Heyward*, Ira Gershwin
• Music By – George Gershwin
• Photography By – Herman Leonard, Phil Stern, Tommy Amer
• Producer – Norman Granz
• Vocals – Ella Fitzgerald
• Vocals, Trumpet – Louis Armstrong

Notes

True stereo recording not issued concurrently with the mono issue in 1958, but rather the following year .

Original labels say 'Stereophonic' in a banner across the top of the label.

Tip-on gatefold sleeve with tipped-in 12-page booklet (twelfth page glued to right side inner gatefold).

From Act 1, Scene 1: A2, C3
From Act 1, Scene 2: B1
From Act 2, Scene 1: B2, B3, B4
From Act 2, Scene 2: C1, C2
From Act 2, Scene 3: A3, C4, D1
From Act 3, Scene 2: D2
From Act 3, Scene 3: D3, D4

Barcode and Other Identifiers

• Matrix / Runout: side 1: 30082 MGVS 6040 2 S1 R1 US PAT # RE 23,946 GB PAT # 713,418
• Matrix / Runout: side 2: 30083 MGVS 6040 2 S2 R1
• Matrix / Runout: side 3: 30084 MGVS 6040 2 S3 R2 US PAT # RE 23,946 GB PAT # 713,418
• Matrix / Runout: side 4: 30085 MGVS 6040 2 S4 R2

Other versions

Category	Artist	Title (Format)	Label	Category	Country	Year
MG V-4011-2	Ella Fitzgerald And Louis Armstrong	Ella Fitzgerald And Louis Armstrong - Porgy & Bess ‎(2xLP)	Verve Records	MG V-4011-2	US	1959
MIJ4 2 5317	Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong	Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Porgy & Bess ‎(Cass, Album)	Verve Records	MIJ4 2 5317	Canada	1976
2 LP 4375/76, 2632 052	Ella Fitzgerald And Louis Armstrong	Ella Fitzgerald And Louis Armstrong - Porgy And Bess ‎(2xLP, Album, RE)	PGP RTB, Verve Records	2 LP 4375/76, 2632 052	Yugoslavia	1979
3501 002	Ella Fitzgerald And Louis Armstrong	Ella Fitzgerald And Louis Armstrong - Porgy & Bess ‎(Cass, Album)	Verve Records	3501 002	Germany	Unknown
827 475-2 03 +	Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong	Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Porgy & Bess ‎(CD, Album, RE)	Helicon Records	827 475-2 03 +	Israel	Unknown

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