Basic:
Label: PGP RTB, Verve Records
Catalog No: 2LP 4375/76, 2632 052
Format: 2 x Vinyl, LP, Stereo, Reissue
Country: Yougoslavia
Genre: Jazz
Style: Swing
Credits:
Composer: George Gershwin
Conductor: Russell Garcia
Vocals: Ella Fitzgerald
Trumpet: Louis Armstrong
Engineer (reissue): Ed Outwater
Lyrics: DuBose Heyward (tracks: Du Bose Heyward), Ira Gershwin
Mastered by: Bob Ludwig
Liner Notes: Chris Albertson, Norman Granz
Producer (originall): Norman Granz
Reissue Producer: Robert Hurwitz
Artwork (Art direction): Beverly Parker
Artwork (Cover art): Dave Heffernan
Chief Editor: Stanko Terzich
Review: Svetolik Jakovljevich
Notes:
This release manufactured by RTB Records, Yugoslavia, under licence from Polydor International GmbH (both RTB and Verve logo are printed on the sleeve). The release that was licensed is a reissue of the original Porgy and Bess release (recorded in september 1957 in Los Angeles). The licenced reissue bears the catalog number 2632 052; original artwork from the reissue is used, but with translated liner notes (with Yugoslav spelling of the names; thus Norman Granz is spelled as "Norman Granz" in the credits and "Norman Grenc" in the liner notes; "Chris Albertson" is spelled "Kris Albertson"). The two LPs are housed in a Gatefold Sleeve. The orchestra is not credited. The original Verve reissue mastered at Masterdisk.
Copyright Notices:
• Royalties collection society: SOKOJ (on LP)
• ℗ 1958 MGM Records Inc.
• Mfd. under licence from Polydor GmbH by RTB Records, Yugoslavia
• Labelcode: LC 0383
Markings on LPs:
Each LP has two catalog numbers, one for RTB and the other for Verve.
- LP 1 (sides A & B) LP 4375 (RTB catalog number) and 2367 228 (Verve catalog number)
- Runout-groove etchings LP 1: LP 4375 A 3179 I/3000 D RG (side A) / LP 4375 B 3179 I/3000 D RG (side B)
- LP 2 (sides C & D) LP 4376 (RTB catalog number) and 2367 229 (Verve catalog number)
- Runout-groove etchings LP 2: LP 4376 A 3178 I/3000 D RG (side A) / LP 4376 B 3179 I/3000 D RG (side B)
Each track has its own catalog number:
- Track A1: (21,708-6)
- Track A2: (21,290-3)
- Track A3: (21,360-11)
- Track B1: (21,361-4)
- Track B2: (21,292-10)
- Track B3: (21,363-7)
- Track B4: (21,291-6)
- Track C1: (21,293-2)
- Track C2: (21,362-14)
- Track C3: (21,295-9)
- Track C4: (21,364-4)
- Track D1: (21,365-1)
- Track D2: (21,714-1)
- Track D3: (21,366-2)
- Track D4: (21,367-1)
- Track D5: (21,294-6)
- Track D6: (21,298-14)
- Track D7: (21,296-9)