Alvy Powell
Alvy R. Powell Jr (born October 31, 1955) is an American bass-baritone opera singer and a former member of the U.S. Army Chorus. He is known for his performances at presidential events and for performing the role of Porgy in the George Gershwin opera Porgy and Bess. Before his retirement from the military in 2017, Powell was the oldest enlisted soldier in the Army.
In 2015, Powell received the National Medal of Arts from President Barack Obama.
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Porgy and Bess / Act 1: Introduction - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 2: Allegretto barbaro...Ha da da, ha da da - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 1: Summertime - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 2: It ain't necessarily so - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 2: Crown! You know very well dis Crown - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 1: Seems like these bones don't give me nothin' but boxcars tonight - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 2: Oh...What you want wid Bess? - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 1: Summertime - Reprise - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 1: What, that chile ain't asleep yet?...A woman is a sometime thing - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 2: Honey, dat's all de breakfast I got time for - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 1: Honey man! Honey man! Here come de honey man - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 2: Well, if it ain't ole Peter! - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 2: Oh Doctor Jesus - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 1: They pass by singin' - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 2: Oh dey's so fresh an' fine...I'm talkin' about devil crabs - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 1: Here comes Big Boy! - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 2: Porgy, Porgy, dat you there, ain't it? - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 1: Crown cock-eyed drunk...Oh, little stars - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 2: I loves you, Porgy - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 1: Oh stop them! Don't let them fight! - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 2: Why you been out on that wharf so long, Clara? - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 1: Wake up an' hit it out. You ain't got no time to lose - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 2: Storm - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 1: Gone, gone, gone...Overflow - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 1: Um! A saucer-buryin' setup, I see - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 2: Oh, de Lawd shake de Heavens - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 1: My man's gone now - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 2: One of dese mornin's...Oh, dere's somebody knockin' at de do' - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 1: How de saucer stan'now, my sister? - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 2: You is a nice parcel of Christians - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 1: Leavin' for the Promise' Lan - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 2: A red-headed woman - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 2: Oh, I'm a-goin' out to the Blackfish Banks - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 2: Jake's boat in de river, upside down! - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 2: Oh, I got plenty o'nuttin' - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 3: Clara, Clara, don't you be downhearted - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 2: Mornin, lawyer, lookin' for somebody? - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 3: Ha ha ha - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 2: Dey's a Buckra comin' - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 3: Summertime - Second Reprise - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 2: 'Lo Bess, goin' to de picnic? - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 3: Introduction, Wait for us at the corner - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 2: Bess, you is my woman now - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 3: Listen: There's a boat dat's leavin' soon for New York - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 2: Oh, I can't sit down - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 3: Occupational humoresque (Good mornin') - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 3: It's Porgy comin' home - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 3: Oh, Bess, oh where's my Bess - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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Porgy and Bess / Act 3: Where's Bess gone? Oh Lawd, I'm on my way - Gershwin: Porgy & Bess - Original 1935 Production Version -
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