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| Artist information: |
| Artist:
Various Artists (Jazz) |
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| Record title:
Porgy and Bess (UK) | | Price: (Euro)
35 |
| Main style:
Jazz | | Substyle(s):
Traditional Jazz, Vocal Jazz |
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| Record information: | | |
| Record Company/
Label:
Ember | | Catalogue
number:
CEL 900 | Released
originally:
1956 | This copy:
(if not orig.)
1962 |
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| Cover made in:
Great Britain | | Record made in:
Great Britain | Media:
Album | Sub media:
LP |
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| Condition/
cover:
EX- | | Condition/
record(s):
EX | | |
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| Label: | | Cover: |
| Light blue labels. Circular big black & light blue Ember logo at the top. | | Laminated (> front only) flipback single cover. Lamination creases on front and along the edges. Slightly worn corners. Completely different artwork to the US one. |
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| Record(s): | | Attachment: |
| A few light surface marks, don't affect play. Matrix numbers and stampers: LP 063 A▼1 420 1 1 / LP 063 B▼1 420 1 1. Heavy / thick vinyl. | | |
| Other information & picture: |
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| The first recording of George Gershwin's "Porgy and Bess" to feature jazz singers and musicians instead of operatic singers and a classical orchestra, starring Mel Tormé and Frances Faye. Released originally as Bethlehem EXLP1 (USA 1956) as a three record set (complete recording), but soon reissued on a single album titled "A Jazz Version of Highlights from the Opera Porgy and Bess", Bethlehem BCP 6040 (USA 1960) > Ember CEL 900 (England 1962) housed in a completely different cover. Stereo enhanced mono.
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