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Jamaica/Porgy & Bess (CD)

By: Lena Horne (Artist)

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Lena Horne Artist Snapshot:

Native New Yorker Lena Horne started singing at Harlem's famed Cotton Club in the 1930s, when she was still a teenager, learning about music from the likes of Duke Ellington and Cab Calloway. Later that decade she sang with the bands of Noble Sissle and Charlie Barnet. In the early '40s she began a career in movie musicals, her appearances in CABIN IN THE SKY and STORMY WEATHER achieving iconic status. By this time, Horne had become a bona fide recording star, and her rarefied beauty made her a ubiquitous pinup girl of the WWII era. Over the ensuing decades, Horne's career encompassed everything from Broadway roles to Grammy Awards, and she continued recording and performing well into the 1990s.

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DISC 1 for Jamaica/Porgy & Bess (CD) Album By Lena Horne (Artist)
1   Savannah
2   Savannah Wedding
3   Pretty To Walk With
4   Push The Button
5   Incompatibility
6   Little Biscuit
7   Cocoanut Sweet
8   Pity The Sunset
9   Take It Slow, Joe
10   Yankee Dollar
11   Monkey In The Mango Tree
12   Ain't It The Truth
13   What Good Does It Do
14   Leave The Atom Alone
15   Napolean
16   For Every Fish
17   I Don't Think I'll End It All Today
18   Savannah (Finale)
 
DISC 2 for Jamaica/Porgy & Bess (CD) Album By Lena Horne (Artist)
1   Woman Is A Sometime Thing, A
2   Summertime
3   I Got Plenty O'Nuttin
4   I Wants To Stay Here (Aka I Loves You Porgy)
5   Bess, You Is My Woman Now
6   It Ain't Necessarily So
7   Medley: Street Calls: Strawberry Woman / Honey Man / Crab Man
8   My Name's Gone Now
9   Bess, Oh Where's My Bess
10   There's A Boat Dats Leaving Soon For New York
 

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Title Note

2 LPs on 2 CDs: JAMAICA (1958)/PORGY & BESS (w/Harry Belafonte) (1959).

JAMAICA (Original Cast):

Music composed by Harold Arlen. Lyrics written by Yip Harburg.

Principal cast includes: Lena Horne, Ricardo Montalban, Ossie Davis, Adelaide Hall, Josephine Premise.

Producers: Ed Welker, Fred Reynolds.

Originally released on RCA (1958).

PORGY AND BESS:

Music composed by George Gershwin. Lyrics written by Du Bose Heyward and Ira Gerswhin.

Principal cast: Lena Horne, Harry Belafonte.

Originally released on RCA (1507).

The first disc of this 2-in-1 CD package, the original 1958 cast recording for JAMAICA, marks Lena Horne's Broadway debut. Though only a minor Broadway production, JAMAICA featured fine compositions from Harold Arlen, many of which were written specifically to showcase Horne. Numbers like "Cocoanut Sweet" and "Ain't It the Truth" would sound right at home in Horne's regular performance repertoire.

The second disc features highlights from PORGY AND BESS with Horne and the great Harry Belafonte singing the lead roles. The sessions, recorded in 1959, were directed by Horne's husband Lenny Hayton, and both Horne and Belafonte turn in dazzling performances of well-known classics like "My Man's Gone Now" and "I Got Plenty of Nothin'." Both albums have been long out of print, so this twofer reissue is a welcome release.

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