"I Loves You Porgy" is an aria from the opera Porgy and Bess with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. It was published in 1935. "I Loves You Porgy" has been recorded by a number of popular vocalists and jazz musicians, most notably Billie Holiday and Nina Simone. Nina Simone's recording of the song was a Top 40 hit in the United States in 1958. A live version is featured in her 1964 album Nina Simone In Concert.

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  • "I Loves You Porgy" is an aria from the opera Porgy and Bess with music by George Gershwin and lyrics by DuBose Heyward and Ira Gershwin. It was published in 1935. "I Loves You Porgy" has been recorded by a number of popular vocalists and jazz musicians, most notably Billie Holiday and Nina Simone. Nina Simone's recording of the song was a Top 40 hit in the United States in 1958. A live version is featured in her 1964 album Nina Simone In Concert. Bill Evans's piano trio version recorded at the Village Vanguard in 1961, available on the CD re-issue of the album Waltz for Debby, is also acclaimed. Barbra Streisand recorded "I Loves You Porgy" as a medley with "I's Your Woman Now" on her "The Broadway Album" Columbia Records, 1985. Pop diva Whitney Houston sang "I Loves You Porgy" as the beginning of a medley at the 1994 American Music Awards . Christina Aguilera covered the song at the Grammy Nomination Concert in December 2008.
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