#macktheknife — Public Fediverse posts

Ella Fitzgerald, when performing Mack-The-Knife live, forgets the lyrics and doesn’t miss a beat:
#music #ellafitzgerald #macktheknife

https://music.apple.com/ca/album/mack-the-knife/556184648?i=556185597

“oh the shark has pretty teeth dear…” Latest while listening to Louie Armstrong #jazz #oilpainting #MackTheKnife

"Oh the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear. And it shows them, pearly white." Here's CrimeReads' story on how an 18th-century light opera about a womanizing highwayman begat the American pop standard "Mack the Knife," featuring Weimar Republic Berlin and a cruel, ruthless criminal along the way.

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#Music #MusicalTheatre #Culture #MackTheKnife #BobbyDarin #BertoldtBrecht

Mack-and-Cheese the Knife

#ComfortFoodASong #MackTheKnife #MacAndCheese #HashTagGames @hashtaggames

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(Seen in a London burb) Mack, 'e's back in town

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iMac The Knife

#NewTechAnOldSong #iMac #MackTheKnife #BobbyDarin #HashTagGames @hashtaggames

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Please do not airbrush #KurtWeill out of references to #TheThreepennyOpera (Die Dreigroschenoper) and those songs ( #MackTheKnife, a jazz standard, is from Threepenny Opera)

The popularity of those works largely rests on Weill's music rather than Brecht's politics, but it was a magical collaboration where the whole was more than the sum of the parts