Shocker! In 1959, Pearl Bailey recorded an LP in which she performed songs from "Porgy & Bess," along with other Gershwin tunes, and it bombed - hardly anyone bought it - so it almost instantly went out of print. Me, yours truly, being the Porgy & Bess-head that I am - or thought I was - didn't even know it existed. By chance, while ambling through a record store with my Cuban Luvuh last week, I spotted it popping up like Pearl herself, all smiles and effortlessly stylish.
