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March 9, 2021

45 RPMs 58: John Cale ~ Animal Justice & Hedda Gabler

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12" 45 RPM front cover detail
cover photo by Jill Furmanovsky 
photo of album cover by Styrous®


Today is the birthday of John Cale, born on March 9, 1942 in Garnant, Wales, United Kingdom. He is a Welsh musician, composer, singer, songwriter and record producer who, with Lou Reed, was a founding member of the American rock band the Velvet Underground. Andy Warhol was their manager. Over his six-decade career, Cale has worked in various styles across rock, drone, classical, avant-garde and electronic music.      
 
I remember hearing the Underground for the first time. I loved the first song, Sunday Morning, from their very first album; it hits you like a crystal cloud, then, I'm Waiting for the Man follows up with a sucker punch!            
 
Ten years later here he is in his full grunge, punk flower! A gig at The Greyhound in Park Lane, Croydon, that culminated with the beheading of an (already dead) chicken resulted in Cale's band quitting in horror, the media threw its hands up in disgust, and even the supposedly blood-craving hordes of London punk were left feeling somewhat queasy. 
 
 
John Cale & chicken
The Greyhound - April 24, 1977
 photographer unknown
 
 
Eight years earlier, Alice Cooper had done HIS chicken thing (link below). Cale remained unrepentant -- so much so that he promptly wrote a song about the incident, opening the EP with Chicken Shit. It is a mash of hard rock, heavy metal with a bit of punk thrown in for good measure. It's punk at it's best.      
 

12" 45 RPM front cover
cover photo by Jill Furmanovsky 
photo of album cover by Styrous®


There's his cover of the 1959 classic, Memphis by Chuck Berry; it is a dream of guitar squawks 'n squeals. Along with the above song, it's punk at it's VERY best.     
 
 
12" 45 RPM back cover
cover photo by Jill Furmanovsky 
photo of album cover by Styrous®

 
Then comes Hedda Gabbler with a gentle coolness of more than just the sound effects in the song. Based on a play written by Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen it rivals anything The Beatles or Pink Floyd could have done and previews the sonic wonders that would come in later years. Slow and dreamy it whiffs you off to "Dreamland" then brings you back to reality with a bang!    
 
Hedda Gabler lyrics
 
Hedda Gabler
Had a very funny face
Tired of waiting
Tired of the human race

Like her brother
Sitting in the library
Reading how dear Adolf
Was going to save all Germany

Hedda Gabler
She'll go down in history
Hedda Gabler
Down in all her misery

Like her mother
Married to the bank manager
She took the money
Hung him in the closet for fun

Hedda Gabler
She'll go down in history
Hedda Gabler
Down in all her misery

Hedda Gabler
She'll go down in history
Hedda Gabler
Down in all her misery

Sleep... sleep... sleep, Hedda Gabler
Sleep... sleep... sleep, Hedda Gabler
Sleep... sleep... sleep, Hedda Gabler
Sleep... sleep... sleep, Hedda Gabler
(repeat to fade)
 
 
Alla Nazimova as Hedda Gabler - 1907
 
 
John Cale ~ Animal Justice 
12" 45 RPM back cover detail
detail photo by Styrous®
 
 

12" 45 RPM label, side 1 
photos by Styrous®
 




12" 45 RPM label, side 2
photos by Styrous®




Tracklist:

Side 1:

A1 - Chicken Shit, Songwriter – Cale* - 3:25
A2 - Memphis, Songwriter – Berry* - 3:15

Side 2:

B - Hedda Gabbler, Songwriter – Cale* - 7:53

Companies, etc.

    Published By – Tin Pan Punk Music
    Mastered At – Trident Studios

Credits:

    Artwork [Sleeve] – Jill Furmanovsky
    Bass – Jimmy Bain
    Drums – Kevin Currie
    Executive-Producer – Wartoke Concern*
    Lead Guitar – Ritchie Fliegler
    Mastered By – Jonz*
    Producer, Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Viola – John Cale
    Synthesizer [Moog] – Bruce Brody
    Jane Friedman − background vocals on "Chicken Shit"

Notes:

Catalog number appears on the back cover as "IL003".
Catalog number appears on the labels as "IL 003".

P 1977

Labels: MADE IN Gt. BRITAIN

Barcode and Other Identifiers

    Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, etched, variant 1): IL-003-A-1 JONZ
    Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, etched, variant 1): IL-003-B-1
    Matrix / Runout (Side A runout, etched, variant 2): IL+003+A JONZ
    Matrix / Runout (Side B runout, etched, variant 2): IL+003+B TRIDENT

John Cale ‎– Animal Justice
Label: Illegal Records (2) ‎– IL003, Illegal Records (2) ‎– IL 003
Format: Vinyl, 12", 45 RPM
Country: UK
Released: Aug 1977
Genre: Rock
Style: Art Rock, Garage Rock
     
      
      
  
Viewfinder links:       
         
Alice Cooper ~ chickens & snakes       
all things Beatles         
Chuck Berry        
John Cale         
Lou Reed       
Andy Warhol        
     
Net links:       
         
All Music ~ Animal Justice review         
Hedda Gabler plot         
Rate Your Music ~ Animal Justice review         
Rolling Stone ~ How Cooper’s Chicken Incident Really Happened   
     
YouTube links:      
        
Chicken Shit        
Memphis        
Hedda Gabbler               
      
     
      
      
     
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June 27, 2019

Doc Pomus ~ Doo-Wop Wonder

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date & photographer unknown
 
 
Doc Pomus was an American blues singer and songwriter but known predominantly for the lyrics he wrote for some of the greatest songs of the doo-wop and Motown era. He wrote Teenager in Love for Dion and the Belmonts, Suspicion for Elvis Presley, and hits for Big Joe Turner (A Boogie Woogie Country Girl being one of my favorite songs) (link below), the Beach Boys and, of course, Save The Last Dance For Me done by The Drifters (link below). 

When he was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Pomus said, "Rock and roll wouldn’t have happened without Big Joe Turner."

He was born Jerome Solon Felder on June 27, 1925, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York, the son of Jewish immigrants. He became a fan of the blues after hearing a Big Joe Turner record.   


Jerome Solon Felder 
date & photographer unknown


When he was a boy, he had polio and was only able to walk with the help of crutches.   


Jerome Solon Felder 
date & photographer unknown


Later, because of post-polio syndrome exacerbated by an accident in 1965, Felder eventually had to rely on a wheelchair. His bus, known as the 'Docmobile', had a custom pneumatic elevator lift for his wheelchair.       


Doc Pomus - 1980's 
photographer unknown

          
Using the stage name "Doc Pomus", Felder began performing as a blues singer when he was a teenager. His stage name was not inspired by anyone in particular; he just thought it sounded better for a blues singer than the name Jerry Felder.    

Performing at various clubs in and around New York City, he performed with Milt Jackson, Mickey Baker, King Curtis and many others. He recorded approximately 40 sides as a singer in the '40s and '50s for record companies such as Chess, Apollo, Gotham and others.      

In the early 1950s, Pomus started writing magazine articles as well as songwriting for artists such as Lavern Baker, Ruth Brown, Ray Charles and Big Joe Turner. His first big songwriting break came when the Coasters had a hit with his song Young Blood; I love this song! There was a cool version of Young Blood (link below) performed by The Beatles for the BBC on June 1, 1963. This song was first released on the LIVE AT THE BBC album in 1994.      

He was married to actress and dancer, Willi Burke, who was in several Broadway musicals (On The Twentieth Century, Fiorello!, etc.) He wrote the song, Save The Last Dance For Me on their wedding night. It was later recorded by The Drifters (link below). 


photographer unknown


He collaborated with pianist Mort Shuman to write for Hill & Range Music Co./Rumbalero Music at its offices in New York City Brill Building. He asked Shuman to write with him because he didn't then know much about rock and roll, whereas Shuman was familiar with many popular artists of the day. They wrote the hit songs A Teenager in Love, Save The Last Dance For Me, Hushabye, This Magic Moment, Turn Me Loose, Sweets For My Sweet (a hit for The Drifters and then The Searchers), Go, Jimmy, Go, Little Sister, Can't Get Used to Losing You, Suspicion, Surrender and (Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame.      


date & photographer unknown 
 

During the late 1950s and early 1960s, Pomus wrote several songs with Phil Spector, Mike Stoller and Jerry Leiber and other Brill Building-era writers. He also wrote Lonely Avenue, a 1956 hit for Ray Charles.     

In the 1970s and 1980s, Pomus wrote songs with Dr. John, Ken Hirsch and Willy DeVille for what he said were "...those people stumbling around in the night out there, uncertain or not always so certain of exactly where they fit in and where they were headed." These later songs are considered by some, musician and songwriter Dr. John and producer Joel Dorn, to be signatures of his best craft.
      
Alex Halberstadt published a book about Doc Pomus entitled, Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life & Times of Doc Pomus which refers to his hit song, Lonely Avenue. It was published by Da Capo Press in 1972. It was named a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and a Best Book of 2007 by The Times (London).


Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life & Times of Doc Pomus 

The documentary film A.K.A. Doc Pomus, conceived by Pomus' daughter Sharyn Felder, directed by filmmaker Peter Miller, edited by Amy Linton and produced by Felder, Hechter and Miller, details Pomus' life was released in 2012.





Doc Pomus died on March 14, 1991, from lung cancer, at the age of 65 at the NYU medical center in Manhattan.     
         
       
        
Viewfinder links:      

The Beach Boys          
Ray Charles           
The Drifters ~ Save the Last Dance for Me
Doc Pomus                      
Elvis Presley         
Big Joe Turner       
      
Net links:      
       
Boogie Woogie Flu ~ Doc Pomus        
CJ News ~ TJFF saves the last film for Doc Pomus review      
Felder Pomus ~ Doc Pomus     
Jewish News ~ Shouting The Blues: A pudgy Jewish kid reborn as Doc Pomus 
NY times ~ A.K.A. Doc Pomus  review        
NY Times ~ Lonely Avenue: This Magic Moment review       
Peter Guralnick ~ Magic & Flying: Doc Pomus
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ~ Big Joe Turner          
Stereophile ~ Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life & Times of Doc Pomus review  
Tablet Magazine ~ Blues Brother        
       
YouTube links:      
          
Doc Pomus ~        
        My Good Pott   
        Send For The Doctor   
        Save the Last Dance For Me and how it almost wasn't   
The Beatles ~ Young Blood                 
The Coasters ~ Young Blood          
Big Joe Turner ~ A Boogie Woogie Country Girl                
A.K.A Doc Pomus Official Movie Trailer - 2012    
The Genius of Doc Pomus (1 hr, 39 min.)  
          
        
         

date & photographer unknown

      
      
       
       
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May 19, 2019

20,000 vinyl LPs 185: The Drifters ~ Save the Last Dance For Me & Doc Pomus

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The Drifters ~ Save the Last Dance For Me
vinyl LP front cover
cover photo by Leonard Heicklen
photo of album cover by Styrous®

The Drifters mono album, Save The Last Dance For Me, was my introduction to the group. The songs on the album are wonderful with two by Carole King who wrote Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? and recorded by the Shirelles, with one by Aaron Schroeder. But most of the songs were written by the Pomus-Shuman team with their Save the Last Dance For Me my favorite tune on the album.     


The Drifters ~ Save the Last Dance For Me 
vinyl LP back cover detail
detail photo by Styrous®


Save the Last Dance For Me was recorded on May 19, 1960, by The Drifters. The song by Doc Pomus (lyrics) and Mort Shuman (music) had Ben E. King on lead vocals; it was produced by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller. The single was released a few months after King left the group, and would go on to spend three non-consecutive weeks at #1 on the U.S. pop chart, in addition to logging one week atop the U.S. R&B chart.


The Drifters ~ Save the Last Dance For Me 
vinyl LP back cover
photo by Styrous®


Later that year in November, as a soloist, King would record one of my all-time favorite songs, Spanish Harlem.  

Pomus recalls that the single originally had Last Dance designated as the B-side of the record. He credits Dick Clark with turning the record over and realizing it was the stronger song.    

In the lyrics for the song, the narrator tells his lover she is free to mingle and socialize throughout the evening, but to make sure to save him the dance at the end of the night. Pomus had polio and at times used crutches to get around. During an interview on the Elvis Costello show Spectacle, Lou Reed, who worked with Pomus, said the song was written on the day of Pomus' wedding; from his wheelchair he watched his bride dancing with their guests. His wife, Willi Burke, was a Broadway actress and dancer who was in the Broadway musical, Fiorello!. The song gives his perspective of telling his wife to have fun dancing, but reminds her who will be taking her home and "in whose arms you're gonna be."      


Willi Burke & Doc Pomus
date & photographer unknown 


"Save The Last Dance For Me"

You can dance
Every dance with the guy
Who gave you the eye
Let him hold you tight

You can smile
Every smile for the man
Who held your hand
'Neath the pale moonlight

But don't forget who's taking you home
And in whose arms you're gonna be
So darlin'
Save the last dance for me, mmm

Oh I know
That the music is fine
Like sparkling wine
Go and have your fun

Laugh and sing
But while we're apart
Don't give your heart
To anyone

But don't forget who's taking you home
And in whose arms you're gonna be
So darlin'
Save the last dance for me, mmm

Baby don't you know I love you so?
Can't you feel it when we touch?
I will never, never let you go
I love you oh so much

You can dance
Go and carry on
Till the night is gone
And it's time to go

If he asks
If you're all alone
Can he take you home
You must tell him no

'Cause don't forget who's taking you home
And in whose arms you're gonna be
So darlin'
Save the last dance for me

'Cause don't forget who's taking you home
And in whose arms you're gonna be
So darlin'
Save the last dance for me, mmm

Save the last dance for me, mmm
Save the last dance for me

        

The Drifters ~ Save the Last Dance For Me 
vinyl LP , side 1
photos by Styrous®







The Drifters ~ Save the Last Dance For Me 
vinyl LP , side 2
photos by Styrous®
 


Tracklist:

Side 1:

A1 - Save The Last Dance For Me, written by Pomus-Shuman
  
A2 - I Count The Tears, written by Pomus-Shuman
  
A3 - Somebody New Dancin' With You, written by Pomus-Shuman
  
A4 - Jackpot, written by Aaron Schroeder, Chuck Kaye
  
A5 - No Sweet Lovin', written by David Baughan, James Oliver (4), William Pinckney
  
A6 - Sweets For My Sweet, written by Pomus-Shuman

Side 2:
  
B1 - Mexican Divorce, written by Bob Hilliard, Burt F. Bacharach*
  
B2 - When My Little Girl Is Smiling, written by Carole King, Jerry Goffin*
  
B3 - Some Kind Of Wonderful, written by Carole King, Jerry Goffin*
  
B4 - Please Stay, written by Bob Hilliard, Burt F. Bacharach*
  
B5 - Nobody But Me, written by Pomus-Shuman
  
B6 - Room Full Of Tears, written by Pomus-Shuman

Companies, etc.

    Published By – Progressive (3)
    Published By – Rumbalero
    Record Company – Atlantic Record Sales
    Mastered At – Atlantic Studios

Credits:

    Arranged By, Conductor – Stan Applebaum
    Producer – Leiber-Stoller*
    Written-By – Pomus-Shuman

Barcode and Other Identifiers

    Rights Society: BMI
    Rights Society: ASCAP
    Matrix / Runout (side A label): 11851
    Matrix / Runout (side B label): 11852
    Matrix / Runout (side A runout etched [except 1]): A11851B AT1 W
    Matrix / Runout (side B runout etched [except 1]): 11852-B 1 AT W 5

The Drifters ‎– Save The Last Dance For Me
Label: Atlantic ‎– 8059
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono
Country: US
Released: 1962
Genre: Rock, Funk / Soul, Pop
Style: Rhythm & Blues, Doo Wop

         
Viewfinder links:             
          
The Drifters articles/mentions       
The Drifters lineup: 1953 to 2019        
Doc Pomus           
Lou Reed       
       
Net links:             
       
Song Facts ~ Save the Last Dance for Me  
Trivia People ~ The Story behind the song      
Unca Marvy ~ The Original Drifters                        
Unca Marvy ~ The Drifters (The Early Years)             
Unca Marvy ~ The Later Drifters                     
        
YouTube links:           
   
The Drifters ‎~
            Save The Last Dance For Me     
            Save The Last Dance For Me (live)               
         
         
       
         
         
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October 18, 2018

20,000 Vinyl LPs 153: The Threepenny Opera & Lotte Lenya

Vinyl LP front cover 
album cover photo by Gene Cook
photo of album cover by Styrous®


Today is the birthday of Lotte Lenya who was born on October 18 in 1898, 120 years ago. She was an Austrian singer, diseuse, and actress, who was based in the United States after the rise of National Socialism in Germany, when left-leaning artists were not in favor and although not Jewish, she left the country.   

In the German-speaking and classical music world she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her husband, Kurt Weill (link below), and in particular, The Threepenny Opera. There have been dozens of singers with far better voices than hers to interpret his music: Martha Schlamme in the fifties and sixties, Anne Sofie von Otter and Teresa Stratas in the seventies and eighties and currently Diana Krall. All of them with incredibly beautiful voices that elevated his music to the concert hall.


photographer unknown


For me, The Threepenny Opera belongs to Lotte Lenya and it always will; I will always think of her as Jenny. No one has ever matched the pathos and desperation of the character as she did. Her voice kept it in the alleys and slums of the world where it was born and where it shines brightest.

This recordiing of The Threepenny Opera has English adaptation of book & lyrics by Marc Blitzstein and was released in 1954 but I did not discover it until the late fifties when I was in college. I fell in love with it and through my discovery of it, I found the world of Lotte Lenya & Kurt Weill (links below).           
      

Vinyl LP back cover detail
detail photo by Styrous®


The Three Penny Opera is a "play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of the 18th-century English ballad opera, The Beggar's Opera, by John Gay, and four ballads by François Villon, with music by Kurt Weill. Although there is debate as to how much, if any, Hauptmann might have contributed to the text, Brecht is usually listed as sole author.
    
The role of Jenny in The Beggar's Opera, by John Gay, was based on an actual person, Jenny Diver, née Mary Young, who was was a notorious British pickpocket in the mid 1700's. She was executed on Wednesday, the 18th of March, 1741 (link below).     
       
The Three Penny Opera was first performed at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm in 1928 (link below) on a set designed by Caspar Neher. Despite an initially poor reception, it became a great success, playing 400 times in the next two years. The performance was a springboard for one of the best known interpreters of Brecht and Weill's work, Lotte Lenya, who was married to Weill.     
      
The work was considered "Degenerate Art" by the Nazi Party; ironically it became a favourite of Berlin's "smart set" – Count Harry Kessler recorded in his diary meeting at the performance an ambassador and a director of the Dresdner Bank (and their wives), and concluded "One simply has to have been there."    

Critics noticed that Brecht had included the four Villon songs translated by Ammer. Brecht responded by saying that he had "a fundamental laxity in questions of literary property."  

By 1933, when Weill and Brecht were forced to leave Germany by the Nazi seizure of power, the play had been translated into 18 languages and performed more than 10,000 times on European stages.     

photo: Weill-Lenya Research Center




         
Vinyl LP back cover
photo by Styrous®
 

An interesting note about this recording is the role of Lucy Brown is performed by Beatrice Arthur of the 1970s sitcoms All in the Family (1971–72) and Maude (1972–78). She also played the role of Dorothy Zbornak in the sitcom The Golden Girls (1985–92).    


Vinyl LP back cover detail
detail photo by Styrous®


Lenya was born Karoline Wilhelmine Charlotte Blamauer to Catholic working class parents in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. In 1914 she went to Zürich to study, her first job was at the Schauspielhaus, using the stage name Lotte Lenja. She moved to Berlin in 1921.   

In 1922 she was seen by her future husband, German composer Kurt Weill, during an audition for his first stage score Zaubernacht, a children's pantomime for solo soprano and chamber orchestra. She was cast but owing to her loyalty to her voice coach she declined the role. She accepted the part of Jenny in the first performance of The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) in 1928, and the part became her breakthrough role. During the last years of the Weimar Republic, she was busy in film and theatre, and especially in Brecht-Weill plays. She made dozens of recordings of Weill's songs (link below).   

In March 1933, she moved to Paris where she sang the leading part in the Brecht-Weill "sung ballet", The Seven Deadly Sins.         

Lenya and Weill settled in New York City on September 10, 1935. During World War II, Lenya did a number of stage performances, recordings and radio performances for the troops, as well as the Voice of America. After a badly received part in her husband's musical The Firebrand of Florence in 1945 in New York, she withdrew from the stage.    


Vinyl LP back cover detail
detail photo by Styrous®


In 1956 she won a Tony Award for her role as Jenny in the Marc Blitzstein English version of The Threepenny Opera, the only time an Off-Broadway performance has been so honored. Lenya went on to record a number of songs from her time in Berlin, as well as songs from the American stage. After many years, her voice had deepened with age and Sprechstimme was used in some famous songs in the Brecht-Weill plays so Lenya used it even more to compensate for the shortcomings of her voice.          

In English-language cinema, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as a jaded aristocrat in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961). She also played Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie From Russia with Love (1963) which starred Sean Connery.      
In 1962 she founded the Kurt Weill Foundation for Music (link below) chartered to preserve and perpetuate the legacies of Kurt Weill (1900-1950) and Lotte Lenya (1898-1981).   

Lotte Lenya died in Manhattan of cancer in 1981, she was 83 years old. She is buried next to Kurt Weill at Mount Repose Cemetery in Haverstraw, New York.            
      

Vinyl LP back cover detail
detail photo by Styrous®


Dozens of people have done covers of the most famous song from the opera, Die Moritat von Mackie Messer, also known as Mack the Knife or The Ballad of Mack the Knife. Some of the most famous singers were Bobby Darin, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Marianne Faithfull, Nick Cave, Brian Setzer and the most famous version of the song, Louis Armstrong, who introduced it to American audiences (links below).   

In 1956, Lenya was present in the studio when Armstrong recorded Mack the Knife. Armstrong improvised the line "Look out for Miss Lotte Lenya!" and added her name to the list of Mack's female conquests in the song.     


Vinyl LP back cover detail
detail photo by Styrous®


In 1994 there was a a video documentary, September Songs - The Music Of Kurt Weill. The performers in it were Elvis Costello, Lou Reed, David Johansen, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Teresa Stratas, Lotte Lenya, Betty Carter, William S. Burroughs, The Persuasions, and Stan Ridgway (video version only). The songs featured in the video were released in a compilation album on CD in 1997. One of the cuts from this album is by Nick Cave who does a fantastic rendition of Mac the Knife (link below) from The Threepenny Opera.                


Vinyl LP label, side 2
photo by Styrous®
   
Tracklist:

Side 1:

A1.1 - Prologue (Spoken)    
A1.2 - Overture    
A1.3 - The Ballad Of Mack The Knife    
A1.4 - Morning Anthem    
A1.5 - Instead - Of - Song    
A1.6 - Wedding Song    
A1.7 - Pirate Jenny    
A1.8 - Army Song    
A1.9 - Love Song    
A1.10 - Ballad Of Dependency    
A1.11 - Melodrama And Polly's Song    
A1.12 - Ballad Of The Easy Life    
A1.13 - The World Is Mean    

Side 2:

B1.1 - Barbara Song    
B1.2 - Tango - Ballad    
B1.3 - Jealousy Duet    
B1.4 - How To Survive    
B1.5 - Useless Song    
B1.6 - Solomon Song    
B1.7 - Call From The Grave    
B1.8 - Death Message    
B1.9 - Finale: The Mounted Messenger    

Companies, etc.

    Copyright (c) – Lowe's Inc.

Credits:

    Banjo, Guitar – Ralph Colicchio
    Clarinet – Charles Russo, Herbert Tishman
    Conductor [Musical Director] – Samuel Matlowsky
    Drums [Tympany], Percussion [Jercussion] – Stan Koor
    Music By – Kurt Weill
    Orchestra, Piano – The Threepenny Opera Orchestra*
    Other [Introduction] – Gerald Price (tracks: A1.1)
    Other [Production Staged By] – Carmen Capalbo
    Photography By [Cover Photo] – Gene Cook
    Text By [Original Text] – Bert Brecht*
    Translated By [English Adaptation Of Lyrics] – Marc Blitzstein
    Trombone – Elliot Philips
    Trumpet – Bernard Ross, Harry Jenkins
    Vocals [J. J. Peachum] – Martin Wolfson
    Vocals [Streetsinger] – Gerald Price
    Vocals, Performer [Jenny] – Lotte Lenya
    Vocals, Performer [Lucy Brown] – Beatrice Arthur
    Vocals, Performer [Macheath - Mack The Knife] – Scott Merrill
    Vocals, Performer [Mrs. Peachum] – Charlotte Rae
    Vocals, Performer [Polly Peachum] – Jo Sullivan (2)
    Vocals, Performer [Tiger Brown] – George Tyne

Notes:

The complete score. (cover)

M-G-M RECORDS - A DIVISION OF © LOEW'S INCORPORATED. PRINTED IN U.S.A.
Made in U.S.A.
Barcode and Other Identifiers

    Matrix / Runout (stamped, Side A): E3121 S1
    Matrix / Runout (stamped, Side B): E3121 S2

Kurt Weill, Marc Blitzstein ‎– The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper)
Label: MGM Records ‎– E3121
Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Country: US
Released: 1954
Genre: Folk, World, & Country, Stage & Screen
Style: Chanson, Score, Ballad, Musical
       
   
     
     
Viewfinder links:       
      
Die Dreigoschenoper (Threepenny Opera)          
Bertold Brecht         
Bobby Darin      
Ella Fitzgerald 
Lotte Lenya      
Frank Sinatra       
Kurt Weill            
     
Net links:       
      
The Threepenny Opera     
Lotte Lenya Audio Files      
Lotte Lenya Discography   
Lotte Lenya Filmography          
Kurt Weill Foundation for Music       
Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc. ~ Lotte Lenya bio          
Kurt Weill Foundation for Music, Inc. ~ Kurt Weill bio         
Kurt Weill Compositions     
Kurt Weill discography     
Capital Punishment UK ~ Jenny Diver (Mary Young)     
       
YouTube links:       
      
The Threepenny Opera (complete, 53 minutes)      
Lotte Lenya ~ Moritat (Mack the Knife)   
Mack the Knife (1931 film)             
Louis Armstrong - Mack the Knife       
Nick Cave - Mack The Knife   
Bobby Darin - Mack the Knife         
Ella Fitzgerald - Mack the Knife       
Frank Sinatra - Mack the Knife      
Sting - The Ballad of Mack the Knife           
     
     
       
    

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Styrous® ~ Thursday, October 18, 2018
   







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