Papa Bue's Viking Jazz Band 1992 Mack The Knife.wmv

Papa Bue's Viking Jazz Band 1992 Mack The Knife: recorded at Monster, Holland 7 and 8 December 1992 and released under "Everybody Loves Saturday Night" this is one of the Papa Bue flag ship tunes he played in many times in his long career and issued albums of this name at least twice. Mack The Knife or "The Ballad of Mack the Knife", originally "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer", is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their music drama Die Dreigroschenoper, or, as it is known in English, The Threepenny Opera. It premiered in Berlin in 1928 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm. The song has become a popular standard. A moritat (from mori meaning "deadly" and tat meaning "deed") is a medieval version of the murder ballad performed by strolling minstrels. In The Threepenny Opera, the moritat singer with his street organ introduces and closes the drama with the tale of the deadly Mackie Messer, or Mack the Knife, a character based on the dashing highwayman Macheath in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera. The Brecht-Weill version of the character was far more cruel and sinister, and has been transformed into a modern anti-hero. The play opens with the moritat singer comparing Macheath (unfavorably) with a shark, and then telling tales of his robberies, murders, rapes, and arson. Mack the Knife was introduced to the United States hit parade by Louis Armstrong in 1956. (not the only German song Satch used). The Band: Arne "Papa Bue" Jensen Tb; Ole Stolle, John Defferary, Jørn Jensen, Ole Olsen, Didier Geers Track 11 of 13 SubmittedULAJAZZ March -6 2012

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