Mercury Records Collection: SR-60050: Selections From Porgy And Bess And Showboat

SR-60050: Selections From Porgy And Bess And Showboat

Label Type :	black Mercury type C (large oval)
Matrix Number :	SIDE-A	SR_60050_A FR1 B1 I
	SIDE-B	SR_60050_B FR1 A1 I

Comments

Equivalent release: Mercury MG-20394 (mono).

with original Mercury inner sleeve.

Inside The Groove

An orchestra with strings, playing famous tunes from two Broadway musicals.

Personal Impression (and brief notes)

An easy-listening orchestra album - very comfortable sound, although it doesn't have much musical thrills :(

Strictly Personal Rating (to what extent I could enjoy this album)

4 out of 10

Track Listing

SIDE-A
A-1	PB1210 (17818)	Summertime	-
A-2	PB1211 (17819)	I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'	-
A-3	PB1215 (17823)	My Man's Gone Now	-
A-4	PB1209 (17817)	Bess, You Is My Woman Now	-
A-5	PB1214 (17822)	A Woman Is A Sometime Thing	-
A-6	PB1213 (17821)	It Ain't Necessarily So	-
SIDE-B
B-1	PB1206 (17814)	Why Do I Love You	-
B-2	PB1208 (17816)	Bill	-
B-3	PB1205 (17813)	Make Believe	-
B-4	PB1207 (17815)	You Are Love	-
B-5	PB1212 (12820)	Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man	-
B-6	PB1216 (17824)	Ol' Man River	-

Personnel

Personnel/recorded date/master numbers confirmed with the Ruppli's discography.
(“The Mercury Labels - A Discography” by Ruppli and Novitsky, Greenwood Press, 1993)

Eric Steele (cond) and his Orchestra.
Recorded in Barclay Studio A, Paris, France, 1958.

Engineer: Gerhard Lerner, of Barclay Studios Hoche, Paris.