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The song, titled "A Theme from The Threepenny Opera (Mack the Knife)", was released in late 1955 together with an instrumental version by Murphy, both by Columbia. [16] The song, however, faced an initial ban on the song by radio stations for lyrics perceived as glorification of a criminal, although it sold well. [18]
Darin recorded "Mack the Knife" on December 19, 1958, and Ahmet Ertegun, founder of Atlantic Records, knew they had caught lightning in a bottle, later recalling: [12] As we were cutting Mack the Knife on the first date, there was no doubt in anybody's mind it would be a success. Everyone knew that this was going to be a number one record.
He was also voted the Grammy Award for Best New Artist that year, and "Mack the Knife" has since been honored with a Grammy Hall of Fame Award. Darin followed "Mack" with "Beyond the Sea", a jazzy English-language version of Charles Trenet's French hit song "La Mer". [1]
Verve re-issue from 1993 The Complete Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife on Verve 314 519 564–2; featuring 13 vocal performances. The 1993 re-issue, and all later releases, include 4 bonus tracks. Tracks 2 and 3 were recorded at the Berlin concert in January 1960 and had been rediscovered on a reel-to-reel tape of the concert initially recorded ...
In 1956, Louis Armstrong recorded the song "Mack the Knife", both as a solo number and as a duet with Lenya. Armstrong added Lenya's name into the lyrics, in place of one of the characters in the play. [15] Bobby Darin's 1959 hit recording of the song used these updated lyrics mentioning Lenya. Donovan's 1968 song "Laléna" was inspired by ...
Pirate Jenny" (German: "Seeräuber-Jenny") is a well-known song from The Threepenny Opera by Kurt Weill, with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht. The English lyrics are by Marc Blitzstein. It is one of the best known songs in the opera, after "Mack the Knife".
André Previn and J. J. Johnson (subtitled Play Kurt Weill's Mack the Knife & Bilbao-Song and Other Music from The Threepenny Opera, Happy End, Mahagonny) is an album by pianist André Previn and trombonist J. J. Johnson performing Kurt Weill's compositions which was released on the Columbia label.
Mack the Knife is a 1989 romantic comedy musical film written and directed by Menahem Golan, a film adaptation of the 1928 Brecht/Weill musical The Threepenny Opera.