early recordings
I Loves You Porgy
1935 George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward
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From the opera Porgy and Bess (1935), second act, scene 3.
Music by George Gershwin (1898-1937), lyrics by Ira Gershwin (1896-1983) and DuBose Heyward (1885-1940). See also from same opera: |
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with strings added
with strings added
2005 DVD 1 A Tribute to Billie Holiday (US)
2002 DVD 12 A Nightingale Sang... Cascade 60008 (DE)
Seems like only yesterday, I remember it was back in the early sixties when I first travelled north to Philadelphia, when a friend of mine told me of an engagement in Atlantic City, New Jersey. So he spoke to the club owner and he succesfully achieved that goal. It seems that the club owner was expecting a singer and me, I, I was a pianist, I've never been a singer, I was a pianist. And he said to me, he said: "Listen , young lady, if you wanna keep this job, you gotta sing. Can you sing, Nina?" And I said: "Well, I've never sung before, but I know one song, one song, and it goes like this:
I love you Porgy
I love you Porgy
Thank you very much and thank you for coming to see me.
I love you very much. We're sorry we've been a long way gone
so long from you but we come back to see you again.
I love you very much. We're sorry we've been a long way gone
so long from you but we come back to see you again.
