{"product_id":"lsc-2679","title":"Porgy and Bess (Leontyne Price) (1963) Vinyl LP • Soundtrack \u0026 William Warfield","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"display: inline-block ; margin-bottom: 0px ;\"\u003eCatalog Number:\u003c\/h3\u003e AGL1-3654\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"display: inline-block ; margin: 0px ; padding: 0px ;\"\u003eMusical Styles:\u003c\/h3\u003e 1960s, Musical\/Original Cast, Vocal, Vocal Jazz\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"display: inline-block ; margin-bottom: 0px ; padding: 0px ;\"\u003eSleeve Grade:\u003c\/h3\u003e Very Good (VG)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003ch3 style=\"display: inline-block ; margin: 0px ; padding: 0px ;\"\u003eRecord Grade:\u003c\/h3\u003e Near Mint (NM or M-)\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n \u003ch3 style=\"margin: 0px ; padding: 0px ;\"\u003eCondition Details:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n \u003cp style=\"margin: 0px ; padding: 0px ;\"\u003eVinyl plays nicely (play-graded). Gate-fold cover has a few creases near edges; light scuffing (front\/back); discoloration with darker discoloration spots on back.  Inner-sleeve is original (RCA ads) Spine is partly readable with wear and thatching. Some shelf-wear along bottom-edge, much heavier across top-edge. Split across top-edge from corner. Some wear to corners. Opening shows some use and divots. later pressing with \"Best Buy Series\" logo on front cover. (Not a cut-out.)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n \u003ch3 style=\"margin: 0px ; padding: 0px ;\"\u003eTracks:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n \u003col style=\"margin-top: 0px ; margin-bottom: 0px ;\"\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eIntroduction \/ Summertime \/ A Woman Is A Sometime Thing\u003c\/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eGone, Gone, Gone\u003c\/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eI Got Plenty Of Nuttin'\u003c\/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eBess, You Is My Woman\u003c\/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eIt Ain't Necessarily So\u003c\/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eWhat You Want Wid Bess?\u003c\/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eI Loves You, Porgy\u003c\/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eThere's A Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon For New York\u003c\/li\u003e\n \u003cli\u003eOh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess \/ Oh Lawd, I'm On My Way\u003c\/li\u003e\n \n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n \u003ch3 style=\"margin: 0px ; padding: 0px ;\"\u003eAbout The Record:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n \u003cp style=\"margin: 0px ; padding: 0px ;\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic ;\"\u003ePorgy and Bess (Leontyne Price)\u003c\/span\u003e is an English-language opera composed in 1934 by George Gershwin, with a libretto written by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin from Heyward's novel \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic ;\"\u003ePorgy\u003c\/span\u003e and later play of the same title. \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic ;\"\u003ePorgy and Bess\u003c\/span\u003e was first performed in New York City on September 30, 1935, and featured an entire cast of classically trained African-American singers—a daring artistic choice at the time. After suffering from an initially unpopular public reception due in part to its racially charged theme, the Houston Grand Opera production of the opera in 1976 gained it new popularity, eventually becoming one of the best-known and most frequently performed operas. Gershwin explained why he called \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic ;\"\u003ePorgy and Bess\u003c\/span\u003e a folk opera in a 1935 New York Times article: \"\u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic ;\"\u003ePorgy and Bess\u003c\/span\u003e is a folk tale. Its people naturally would sing folk music. When I first began work in the music I decided against the use of original folk material because I wanted the music to be all of one piece. Therefore I wrote my own spirituals and folksongs. But they are still folk music – and therefore, being in operatic form, \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic ;\"\u003ePorgy and Bess\u003c\/span\u003e becomes a folk opera.\" The libretto of Porgy and Bess tells the story of Porgy, a disabled black beggar living in the slums of Charleston, South Carolina. It deals with his attempts to rescue Bess from the clutches of Crown, her violent and possessive lover, and Sportin' Life, the drug dealer. Where the earlier novel and stage-play differ, the opera generally follows the stage-play. In 1963, Leontyne Price and William Warfield, who had starred in the 1952 world tour of \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic ;\"\u003ePorgy and Bess\u003c\/span\u003e, recorded their own album of excerpts from the opera for RCA Victor. None of the other singers from that production appeared on that album, but John W. Bubbles, the original Sportin' Life, substituted for Cab Calloway (who had played Sportin' Life onstage in the 1952 production). The 1963 recording of \u003cspan style=\"font-style: italic ;\"\u003ePorgy and Bess\u003c\/span\u003e excerpts remains the only official recording of the score on which Bubbles sings Sportin' Life's two big numbers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Record Vision","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52793668665625,"sku":"LSC-2679","price":9.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0992\/6937\/8329\/files\/LP-porgy_and_bess_leontyne_price-03.jpg?v=1783554086","url":"https:\/\/record-vision.myshopify.com\/products\/lsc-2679","provider":"Record Vision","version":"1.0","type":"link"}