Little Girl Blue (album)
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Little Girl Blue: Jazz as Played in an Exclusive Side Street Club is the debut album by the jazz pianist and singer Nina Simone. It was released by Bethlehem Records in February 1959. It was recorded
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I Loves You, Porgy
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"I Loves You, Porgy" is a duet from the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by Ira Gershwin. It was performed in the opera's premiere in 1935 and on Broadway the same ye
Little Girl Blue (album)
…the tracks for her second album – what would become The Amazing Nina Simone – the same month. In May, however, Bethlehem finally released a single, "I Loves You, Porgy", and gave Simone her first hit later that year, peaking at number 18 on the pop charts, and number 2 on the R&B charts. Helped by the profile of the…
Gershwin in 1937
Leontyne Price as Bess (1953)
Kevin Short as Porgy (2018)