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In Reply to: Sukey Tawdry, Jenny Diver Polly Peachum, Lucy Brown posted by violinist3 on May 5, 2007 at 16:51:04:
Und der Haifisch, der hat Zähne
Und die trägt er im Gesicht
Und MacHeath, der hat ein Messer
Doch das Messer sieht man nicht(I must confess, I learned the German lyrics watching old Ernie Kovacs kinescopes on PBS a long, long time ago)
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Yes, that's Brecht himself singing on that clip that Ernie Kovacs used. I have the clip of that recording from an LP of the play Brecht on Brecht.My kids just got me Bobby Darin's version on 45 for my birthday. While I was never a big fan of his, I had to smile when he slipped Lotte Lenya's name into the list.
Haaaaar, me Hardy! When I was just a little shaver, barely old enough to raise my first goatee, I saw the Theatre de Lys production on Christopher Street with Lotte Lenya, the Teutonic Billie Holiday, as Pirate Jenny. I never got over it, and remain a beatnic to this day.
I really envy you. I never did see her myself although I have about a dozen records of her, including her German Dreigrossenopfer on Columbia and the movie soundtrack on MGM.By the way, Bob Dylan seems to have had a similar experience to yours. In Chronicles he writes about hearing Lotte Lenya sing Pirate Jenny in the Village and thinking in a whole new way about how to structure a song. Listen to "When the Ship Comes In" and you can hear the influence.
I thumbed through Chronicles (Vol. 1) and couldn't find the reference to 3PO. Can you help with an exact page? TIA.
Sure, it's on pages 272-276. He calls it a "presentation of songs by Bertolt Brecht...and Kurt Weil," so maybe it wasn't 3PO. This was 1961 and I guess there was a revue of their songs at that venue.This thread just inspired me to clean off an LP I have called "Mack the Knife and Other Berlin Theatre Songs of Kurt Weill" on RCA from 1966, by The Sextette of Orchestra USA (Eric Dolphy, Thad Jones, John Lewis, and others). Michael Zwerin created some stunning arrangements and there are some great runs by Dolphy, Thad, et al. Quite a gem.
Many thanks for the reference. It's a fabulous description of 3PO -- really a gem. I need to send that to Eric Gordon, Marc Blitzstein's biographer.If you like Weill sung by Lotte Lenya, you've got to hear Columbia KL 5229 "September Song and other American theatre songs of Kurt Weill sung by Lotte Lenya" (does that take the prize for the longest record title?)
Yes, I do have that great French RCA album of jazz interpretations of Weill.
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