| Artist | Song | Album | Label | Year |
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| George Gershwin | Prelude | I Got Rhythm | Smithsonian |
| Anne Brown and Todd Duncan | I Loves You Porgy | Porgy And Bess Original Cast Album | Decca |
| Sidney Bechet | Summertime | Complete Blue Note Recordings | Mosaic |
| Ella Fitzgerald | My Man's Gone Now | Porgy And Bess | Verve |
| William Warfield and Leontyne Price | Bess, You Is My Woman Now | I Got Rhythm | Smithsonian |
| Miles Davis | Bess, Oh Where's My Bess | Porgy And Bess | Columbia |
| Billie Holiday | Summertime | Lady Day | Columbia |
| Louis Armstrong | Oh Lawd, I'm On My Way | Porgy and Bess | Verve |
| Stewart-Williams & Co. | A Woman Is A Sometime Thing | Porgy And Bess Revisited | Disques Swing |
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| Sammy Davis, Jr. | There's A Boat That's Leavin' Soon For New York | Porgy And Bess -Original Film Soundtrack | Roslin |
| Cab Calloway | It Ain't Necessarily So | George Gershwin's Porgy And Bess | Master Clasics |
| Lawrence Tibbett | The Buzzard Song | I Got Rhythm | Smithsonian |
| Todd Duncan | I Got Plenty O' Nothin' | I Got Rhythm | Smithsonian |
| Miles Davis | My Man's Gone Now | Porgy And Bess | Columbia |
| Billy Stewart | Summertime | Best Of | MCA |
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