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Fact #103139

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Opera singers Robert Merrill and Rise Stevens record tracks for an LP of selections from the George Gershwin opera Porgy And Bess, for RCA Victor Records in the USA. Intriguingly, the album features no black singers at all, despite the opera having been written for an African-American cast.