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From: barry@ames.UUCP (Kenn Barry)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Ella Fitzgerald
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Date: Fri, 7-Dec-84 01:36:20 EST
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Posted: Fri Dec  7 01:36:20 1984
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[Posted for a friend]

> Does anyone recall an album made with Ella Fitzgerald and Ray Charles
> doing the opera, "Porgy and Bess"?  It was one of the best pieces of
> jazz I have ever heard.  If anyone knows of this album, please let me
> know.  Thanks!
> 
> M. Ashley
> AT&T-BL
> ihuxm!marno

	There are two versions of "Porgy and Bess" that you may be referring
to. One is a Verve album from the '50s with Ella Fitzgerald and Louis
Armstrong. The other is a Pablo recording from the late '70s with Ray
Charles and Cleo Laine. The Charles-Laine record is easily the better
of the two.

					Marvin P. Vernon