The Recorded Sound Archives (RSA) is a unit of FAU Libraries Special Collections department. We are located in the Wimberly Library on FAU's Boca Raton campus.

Originally established in 2002 as a small project dedicated to the preservation of recorded Jewish music, it has matured into a robust digitization operation for all types of sound recordings.

George Gershwin: Porgy and Bess - Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong


Additional information (PDF) is only available
through the Research Station
Collection(s)Jazz
Catalogue NumberVE-2-2507
Matrix Number N/A
Record Label Verve
Record FormatN/A
Shelf Number000062
Number of Tracks18
Date Recorded1976
Album Artists
Notes N/A

Recordings restricted by copyright will only play 45 seconds to give you a sense of what that recording originally sounded like. These recordings can be identified by the words (Research Station) in the music player.

If a song listed below has not been digitized yet, it will NOT show up within the player. If you need us to digitize this song/album, you can make a formal request here.
1 - Overture
Composer(s) : N/A
2 - Summertime
Composer(s) : N/A
3 - I Wants to Stay Here
Composer(s) : N/A
4 - I Got Plenty O' Nuttin'
Composer(s) : N/A
5 - My Man's Gone Now
Composer(s) : N/A
6 - The Buzzard Song
Composer(s) : N/A
7 - Bess, You Is My Woman
Composer(s) : N/A
8 - In Ain't Necessarily So
Composer(s) : N/A
9 - What You Want Wid Bess
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10 - A Woman is a Sometime Thing
Composer(s) : N/A
11 - Oh, Doctor Jesus
Composer(s) : N/A
12 - Medley: Here Come De Honey Man; Crab Man; Oh Dey's So Fresh and Fine
Composer(s) : N/A
13 - There's a Boat Dat's Leavin' Soon for New York
Composer(s) : N/A
14 - Oh Bess, Oh Where's My Bess?
Composer(s) : N/A
15 - Oh Lawd, I'm On my Way
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