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Lodestar

(2,388 posts) Wed Feb 24, 2016, 05:48 AM Feb 2016

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Mack The Knife

...Eek!

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Mack The Knife (Original Post) Lodestar Feb 2016 OP

Great tune, even in the original German CBGLuthier Feb 2016 #1

Mackie Messer is always better in the original :) nt Erich Bloodaxe BSN Feb 2016 #5

one of the strangest " Pop " tunes ever olddots Feb 2016 #2

Lotte Lenya! longship Feb 2016 #3

The story behind the song... Lodestar Feb 2016 #4

CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)

1. Great tune, even in the original German

Reply to Lodestar (Original post)

Wed Feb 24, 2016, 05:54 AM

Feb 2016

Die Moritat von Mackie Messer

Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)

5. Mackie Messer is always better in the original :) nt

Reply to CBGLuthier (Reply #1)

Wed Feb 24, 2016, 07:41 AM

Feb 2016

olddots

(10,237 posts)

2. one of the strangest " Pop " tunes ever

Reply to Lodestar (Original post)

Wed Feb 24, 2016, 06:21 AM

Feb 2016

3 Penny Opera is a must see .

longship

(40,416 posts)

3. Lotte Lenya!

Reply to Lodestar (Original post)

Wed Feb 24, 2016, 06:50 AM

Feb 2016

The composer's (Kurt Weill) wife sings it:

Lotte Lenya also played one of the James Bond movies' most evil villain in the absolutely best Bond film ever, From Russia with Love.

She was a treasure.

Lodestar

(2,388 posts)

4. The story behind the song...

Reply to Lodestar (Original post)

Wed Feb 24, 2016, 07:09 AM

Feb 2016

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack_the_Knife

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