Re: Lyrics: mac the knife

["Anderson, Julie LHS-STAFF" <AndersonJ@ISSAQUAH.WEDNET.EDU>]

Something that is unique to this song is that it now has two sets of
"accepted" lyrics. You have the first set, written by Blitzen. Then there
are the lyrics inadvertently "written" by Ella Fitzgerald when she forgot
the words during a performance. She started singing about having forgotten
them and you can now hear performances and recordings with both the original
and the improvised lyrics. More often than not, if you're hearing Ella,
you're hearing her "version."

Julie

Julie Anderson, Librarian
Liberty High School, Renton, WA       425.837.4901
andersonj@issaquah.wednet.edu

"Fiction is a lie about the truth." Jane Chambers

-----Original Message-----
From: Robert Hiebert [mailto:rhiebert@SD6.BC.CA]
Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2002 8:38 AM
To: LM_NET@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: Re: Lyrics: mac the knife


Hello Nancy,

Here is some info (from Lissauer's Encyclopedia of Pop Music in America)

a.k.a. Moritat
From Bertolt Brecht's "Threepenny Opera"
Marc Blitzen wrote (or translated) the English words
Music by Kurt Weill
Several hit recordings from the 50's and 60's. Louis Armstrong did one, Ella
Fitzgerald another and, of course, the huge hit by Bobby Darin

You will find the words at:
http://www.greenmanreview.com/mack_the_knife.html

Regards,
Robert

Robert Hiebert
Librarian, Golden Secondary School, BC, Canada
www.gsslibrary.net
Fax: 250 344 7116
library@gsslibrary.net

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