Porgy and Bess
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Oct 8, 2026
Nick SmithHOST
She does, but I could argue Etta crosses the checks that Christina doesn't.
Matteo LaneHOST
Now, Christina, when she's sang Porgy and Bess, so she sang a couple jazz standards, and she can tone it down, and she sounds remarkable when she does.
Matteo LaneHOST
But then she gets, she's always tempted to do that growl and the [growls]
Nick SmithHOST
And that's why I wanna go with Etta.
Mark CallHOST
Methuselah lived nine hundred years.
Mark CallHOST
That's a, uh, I think it's from Porgy and Bess.
Mark CallHOST
But in any case, um, he is the oldest recorded man in human history, and then he died.
Mark CallHOST
There's a lot of, um, I guess you'd say oral tradition surrounding Methuselah having to do with the flood and so forth, and, and the numbers do kind of add up on this score.
Anna SingerHOST
Oh, good.
Nanette Kaplan SolomonGUEST
From Porgy and Bess.
Anna SingerHOST
Wonderful.
Nanette Kaplan SolomonGUEST
And that's the Aria 412 set.
speaker_0HOST
But ever since then, much like a whole lot of other things, it has become an enduring staple of the operatic repertoire.
speaker_0HOST
In 1935, George Gershwin's groundbreaking opera Porgy and Bess premiered its pre-Broadway tryout.
speaker_0HOST
This was up in Boston, Massachusetts at the Colonial Theater.
speaker_0HOST
It was described by George Gershwin as being a folk opera.
P.W. FentonHOST
I am your host, P.W. Phantom.
P.W. FentonHOST
On this day in 1935, Porgy and Bess was presented for the first time at the Colonial Theater in Boston.
P.W. FentonHOST
On this day in 1963, B.B. King recorded How Blue Can You Get, which was released as an ABC single.
P.W. FentonHOST
Hey, don't forget to stop by at bluesland.net where I have links to all the music you hear on this show.
AnwiHOST
I got to like very close to the final round of that.
AnwiHOST
But also I was in Porgy and Bess, our local, our stage company put on Porgy and Bess and we toured South America with it.
AnwiHOST
But we had to go pick up more actors in New York because there weren't enough.
AnwiHOST
to film that tour so you're like making me think so much of my college days
Marcia ChatelainGUEST
Okay.
Marcia ChatelainGUEST
Like what, what are we talking about? Like what a queen, like she, she's really well known among people who study musical theater and, who know Gershwin and, uh, Porgy and Bess, like drama, musical theater, people like they know her and, you know, people who know like the history of music and Negro spirituals, but broadly, like she was making movies in the late twenties.
Marcia ChatelainGUEST
She's on Broadway for like 20 years and people are like writing her letters.
Marcia ChatelainGUEST
Like, please, Eva, Jesse, help me out.
Aisha DeeGUEST
Um, but I also just really loved movies.
Aisha DeeGUEST
Like, old movies, the 1920s Josephine Baker movies, Porgy and Bess, and, like, Sweet Charity.
Aisha DeeGUEST
I loved a lot of, like, older musicals, and they were free at the library, so I used to, like, take them home and watch them and kind of...
Aisha DeeGUEST
It was like this world that I could lose myself in a little bit.
Alan J. PorterHOST
But given Williams' desire to sell Walters as a nightclub act, it's a reasonable assumption that they weren't rockers.
Alan J. PorterHOST
A surviving photograph of the resulting disc shows the title Summertime from Porgy and Bess, while later on Williams said they also recorded the Peggy Lee hit Fever, and Walters recalled that they may have played September Song.
Alan J. PorterHOST
There is also confusion over how many copies of the recording were pressed.
Alan J. PorterHOST
Reports vary from two to as many as nine, or what happened to them.
Hilary SeabrookHOST
No, no.
Odaline de la MartinezGUEST
Porgy and Bess, more or less, and then a few others, maybe if that.
Hilary SeabrookHOST
But even Porgy and Bess doesn't get performed very often.
Odaline de la MartinezGUEST
It does in America, but not here.
Hilary SeabrookHOST
Right.
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