Television performance ca. 1966 Using the well-known Blitzstein translation.
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@litlgrey5 жыл бұрын
Even some 35 years later, even out of context, even in English and with some lyrics vastly changed, Lotte Lenya IS Pirate Jenny now and forever, and her performance still gives chills. You can't look away from her.
@GaiaCarney4 жыл бұрын
Carl Howard - YES. I’m on my fifth viewing, realizing I’ll never ever be the same for viewing this 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Lotte Lenya, mighty mighty
@PRISMN543 жыл бұрын
@@GaiaCarney YES!!!!! That's exactly how I'm feeling NOW!!! First time today, 10 min ago.
@warrengwonka24793 жыл бұрын
I’ve heard her many times; but today is the first time I’ve seen her.
@groupsphera2 жыл бұрын
Единственная и незаменимая.
@trenthink Жыл бұрын
I prefer the literal translation of the German lyrics, but nevertheless the story brings me to tears.
@ccdaly25613 жыл бұрын
Lenya always gives me chills. I used to work at a godawful piano bar in NYC, where the customers treated me like I was a commodity. To release stress, I'd sing Pirate Jenny on Mondays. All I could do. Hopefully the pandemic finally shut them down. Could never do justice to her.
@BA-bb3bj2 жыл бұрын
As a former resident of a once magical, transformative, transgressive, empathetic, global small town, I apologize They were tourists who wanted to stay and instead homogenized the city into wannabees
@tenorak2 жыл бұрын
Would have loved to see.
@annepoitrineau5650Ай бұрын
Yes, it is so technically difficult to sing!!
@bobtaylor1706 жыл бұрын
How can anyone not love this? The woman performs with total authority. This is thrilling theatre.
@filipp7213 жыл бұрын
*Epic theater as Brecht described it
@donaldcarletonjr.90473 ай бұрын
I'll tell you why: the performance is GREAT but the Blitzstein translation is CRAP!
@bobtaylor1703 ай бұрын
@@donaldcarletonjr.9047 you seem to be rather solitary in thinking that.
@bobtaylor1706 жыл бұрын
A great star. And keep in mind that she's doing this thirty five years after she did it originally. It's powerfully magnetic.
@kurtisblow30005 жыл бұрын
where is the other version of her singing it?? It used to be on youtube.... this is great but the other was better
@MrCrowebobby Жыл бұрын
@@kurtisblow3000 Mackie Messer
@tadimaggio4 жыл бұрын
I don't think that any of us want to know how many people with dull or boring jobs think along the lines of Jenny in this song.
@jackschimmelman63559 жыл бұрын
i was privileged to see her at the end of her career in a version of cabaret.
@ZoeEGrace7 жыл бұрын
That would have been something! I think Cabaret is far closer to Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht than Bob Fosse and Liza Minelli! But that's my opinion, and probably not a very popular one. ;)
@rolleicanon7 жыл бұрын
100% correct. Those who were there, and the performers, say the cabarets were political, not at all like in Cabaret.
@buckjohnson37484 жыл бұрын
@@rolleicanon meh kinda wrong. Some of the songs were political such as the gorilla song about a Jewish woman compared to a gorilla. The money song references the 1929 berlin depression.
@rolleicanon4 жыл бұрын
Buck Johnson True, but most of them were not the kind of left wing agitprop you would have encountered.
@mapanzer3 жыл бұрын
She is singing on the original cast recording!
@suzannestultz3919 Жыл бұрын
She was probably in her 60s when I saw her in a touring version of the revue “Brecht on Brecht”. About half or more of the audience consisted of college students who had never even heard of her, and they were mesmerized. I can still almost hear her scornful, half-whispered “That’ll learn ya.” Yikes!
@davidanthonystone51656 жыл бұрын
I met her at a party in the 1970's in NY I saw her also in the original Cabaret wonderful actress
@robkunkel88335 ай бұрын
I just looked up her life. She was old but very much alive back then. Weil’s widow. THE best in these roles. You are lucky to have met her. Nice comment.
@michaelward91674 жыл бұрын
I'll remember her as Rosa Klebb in From Russia with Love.
@skovner20 күн бұрын
With the knife in her shoe
@marshhen5 жыл бұрын
This song is a masterpiece.
@GaiaCarney4 жыл бұрын
Carl Howard - YES. I’m on my fifth viewing, thinking I’ll never ever be the same for viewing this 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Lotte Lenya, mighty mighty
@redword20076 жыл бұрын
What an extraordinary talent!
@ChrysoulaKechagioglou4 жыл бұрын
Wow! With a soul like this, who needs intonation and training? Wow!
@SashaLaurenAuthor4 жыл бұрын
Bob Dylan, Chronicles: Volume One brought me here
@lucamarcelli88284 жыл бұрын
Same
@mariabarros16443 жыл бұрын
SAME
@OneWithMagic3 жыл бұрын
Same!
@michaelbar993 жыл бұрын
Same!!
@Pablov.castao3 ай бұрын
What did he say about this?
@XX-gy7ue4 жыл бұрын
SHE WAS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING
@diamondcomposte4 жыл бұрын
I got here through Alan Moore, because his first pseudonym was Curt Vile, a play on words of Kurt Weil :D
@bobtaylor1706 жыл бұрын
I love this. It's seeing legend made alive.
@skovner20 күн бұрын
Lotte, with this you own this song. It is yours forever for eternity.
@ddizaca6 жыл бұрын
You people can watch while I'm scrubbing these floors And I'm scrubbin' the floors while you're gawking Maybe once ya tip me and it makes ya feel swell In this crummy Southern town In this crummy old hotel But you'll never guess to who you're talkin'. No. You couldn't ever guess to who you're talkin'. Then one night there's a scream in the night And you'll wonder who could that have been And you see me kinda grinnin' while I'm scrubbin' And you say, "What's she got to grin?" I'll tell you. There's a ship The Black Freighter With a skull on its masthead Will be coming in You gentlemen can say, "Hey gal, finish them floors! Get upstairs! What's wrong with you! Earn your keep here! You toss me your tips And look out to the ships But I'm counting your heads As I'm making the beds Cuz there's nobody gonna sleep here, honey Nobody Nobody! Then one night there's a scream in the night And you say, "Who's that kicking up a row?" And ya see me kinda starin' out the winda And you say, "What's she got to stare at now?" I'll tell ya. There's a ship The Black Freighter Turns around in the harbor Shootin' guns from her bow Now You gentlemen can wipe off that smile off your face Cause every building in town is a flat one This whole frickin' place will be down to the ground Only this cheap hotel standing up safe and sound And you yell, "Why do they spare that one?" Yes. That's what you say. "Why do they spare that one?" All the night through, through the noise and to-do You wonder who is that person that lives up there? And you see me stepping out in the morning Looking nice with a ribbon in my hair And the ship The Black Freighter Runs a flag up its masthead And a cheer rings the air By noontime the dock Is a-swarmin' with men Comin' out from the ghostly freighter They move in the shadows Where no one can see And they're chainin' up people And they're bringin' em to me Askin' me, "Kill them NOW, or LATER?" Askin' ME! "Kill them now, or later?" Noon by the clock And so still by the dock You can hear a foghorn miles away And in that quiet of death I'll say, "Right now. Right now!" Then they'll pile up the bodies And I'll say, "That'll learn ya!" And the ship The Black Freighter Disappears out to sea And On It Is Me
@hernanrubindearmas56406 жыл бұрын
Thanks, so nice of you to transvase he lyrics. I appreciated very much. Justo to know Jenny a little more. I adore Jenny!
@arabena196 жыл бұрын
Best version, Nina Simone.
@litlgrey5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for transcribing the lyrics! They do go by rather quickly.
@christmashills5 жыл бұрын
Www
@reginabillotti4 жыл бұрын
@@litlgrey those are the lyrics to Nina Simone's version. This one is slightly different.
@alanoneill3065 Жыл бұрын
I first heard Pirate Jenny when I was 14...my brother bought Judy Collins' In My Life Album. Was smitten then, but this is THE version
@sittinginthebasement7 жыл бұрын
Who hasn't fantasized about dispatching their enemies in a like fashion?
@ArthurLWood2 жыл бұрын
Astonishing performance; the best!
@jhecht996 жыл бұрын
Wow...what a performance....I'll take her 82,000 views over the three billion for Gangnam Style...
@fossseseptique3 жыл бұрын
Is there anything this genius can't do? RIP we love you.
@hernanrubindearmas56406 жыл бұрын
Gracias, Thomas. Thanks! I shared it with a friend who saw Lotte Lenja in the Broadway prodution of the THROPENCE OPERA: Marylou Schiller.
@ritasecrease94602 жыл бұрын
MANY YEARS LATER....REPEAT!
@jberwald7 жыл бұрын
Mesmerizing! What a fabulous interpretation.
@mheerd8 жыл бұрын
Lotte Lenya - Extremely impressive as always.
@charold35 жыл бұрын
Oh thanks for posting! I didn't know this clip existed! Lotte is incredibly compelling here, though in her late sixties! (Appreciation of Brecht/Weill brought me here.)
@skovner10 ай бұрын
The best performance I have seen of this so far, even if the words are a bit different. They work better
@darkenergyhotep57934 жыл бұрын
Epic I'm a big fan.
@Aubury7 жыл бұрын
So nice to find this version a little gem
@PRISMN543 жыл бұрын
Shooting "GUNS!!!" I loved this and many other wonderful little details of her singing!! I'm gonna watch it a thousand times!! I have Judy Collins vinil, loving her singing for decades, but this Lotte Lenya version is sooooo true, so alive!!! Thank you again and forever for giving us this gift!!!
@GriffGriffith Жыл бұрын
Although there were many subsequent English translations of the original German libretto and although the rhymes don’t always land, Marc Blitzstein’s translation is the only one that stands toe to toe with Weil’s masterpiece of a score.
@patovalentino11 ай бұрын
This is PERFECT 😍
@PeterHh Жыл бұрын
The first 27 seconds. Tells all
@Marcel_Audubon4 жыл бұрын
*that'll learn ya* !!
@jointheleanrat6 жыл бұрын
Thanks.. great early tv performance.. WOW... This deserves a lot more views! Wonderful!!
@silverdoctor14 жыл бұрын
I had no idea that this song existed until I read about it's apparently profound effect on Bob Dylan in the early '60's. Thanks for posting.
@troutie2008 Жыл бұрын
And, that's what brought me here too.
@nin1966 ай бұрын
At ships with tattooed sails Heading for the Gates of Eden - Bob D's masterpiece
@PRISMN543 жыл бұрын
Ohhhh!!! I loved to see it!!!! I love the song!! Thank you so much!!
@nistabezvegete3 жыл бұрын
This reminds me of a Tom Waits song called Black Spider an awful lot! The accent and the way she sings "black freighter" is very reminiscent of that song...
@TheOnlyChilde11 жыл бұрын
Lotte was "sui generis"; I love her version better than any other since. Her long history with Kurt Weill lends her a unique authenticity.
@milkbarMPLS Жыл бұрын
Nina Simone's is the killer version for me. I love Lotte Lenya, but Nina is TERRIFYING.
@miabellajenny6 жыл бұрын
My former voice teachers mentor. I am very lucky!!
@SMay-rg5vh2 жыл бұрын
Mesmerising and incredible performance. Sort of other-worldly.
@Nightmarigny4 жыл бұрын
Brilliant.
@MrCrispian5 жыл бұрын
Lotie played Rosa Klebb in From Russia with love 007 film
@normancharles2507 Жыл бұрын
I love this song. I first heard it by Judy Collins, on her "In My Life" album.
@rstandmartin3 жыл бұрын
Mentioned in Mack the knife. Yes she is she !
@ansongordon-creed40472 жыл бұрын
This song inspired the Tales of the Black Freighter in Watchmen
@phyllissimpson720 Жыл бұрын
She's great!!
@hannureittu43105 жыл бұрын
Wonderful!
@1996Tanawuts6 жыл бұрын
Sasha Velour sent me here
@kagitsune6 жыл бұрын
Same.
@BorisArthur6 жыл бұрын
TanawutAwesome Sukke - Sameh
@luckyloppy9346 жыл бұрын
same!!
@TrudyPatootie6 жыл бұрын
Absolutely and I'm not disappointed ONE bit.. Bravo..
@Cupidssatan6 жыл бұрын
TanawutAwesome Sukke samr
@annepoitrineau5650Ай бұрын
Not only is it a great song to listen to, but it is technically very difficult...I am learning it and it is not easy to breathe on lol
@unclenogbad15092 жыл бұрын
She is fantastic. One of so very few performers who really deserve the title of: Legend.
@starlingsplanettv29505 жыл бұрын
fabulous
@derstoffausdemderjoghurtis Жыл бұрын
Only knew the german version till now. This sounds really good. The radiance of this woman and her voice!
@toomuchinformation Жыл бұрын
Nina Simone does a very chilling version. I actually heard her version first.
@benschroth77176 жыл бұрын
Herrlich.
@GeckoBachmann-zf8nc8 ай бұрын
Wunderbar....immer
@tamarinha306 жыл бұрын
Thank you! =)
@DEWwords Жыл бұрын
My god that's good
@jcmontecarlo61234 ай бұрын
Fabulous!
@nixedekicknt67066 жыл бұрын
Çok güzel elinize ayağınıza sağlık
@AsDeadAsDillinger6 жыл бұрын
A far more melodramatic a fate than a poisoned kick from Ms Klebb.
@cbquills91075 жыл бұрын
oohhh.... dear olga!
@anothertime1282 Жыл бұрын
The day will come. They'll say, 'But it wasn't me.' We'll say, 'But it was.'
@potdog10008 ай бұрын
one artistic genius
@heart0fmadness9114 жыл бұрын
Rosa clebb😐.from Russia with love
@groupsphera2 жыл бұрын
Und ein Schiff mit acht Segeln...
@tonycanabal1659 Жыл бұрын
Loved Miss Lotte Lenya in From Russia With Love and Semi Tough where she nearly tortured Burt Reynolds.
@andrebelei72987 жыл бұрын
Bob Dylan - Chronicles brought me here.
@MrFartboy797 жыл бұрын
Andre Belei me too
@hernanrubindearmas56406 жыл бұрын
Glad to know Bob Dylan brought you to the persiflage, as Bertolt Brecht himself called his opera, derived from the John Gay´s THE BEGGAR´S OPERA, 1700 onwards presented first at the Court of Hannover.
@kathykelly16176 жыл бұрын
ditto
@hernanrubindearmas56406 жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@kennydurkin4 жыл бұрын
Andre Belei and all of a sudden we had Desolation Row, Ballad Of a Thin Man etc and the rest is history.
@enricoflor36013 ай бұрын
Here for The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Century: 1910. I think the songstress in the novel depicted Lotte Lenya. Searching for her original version to verify....
@ImaginaryMdA6 жыл бұрын
Such a great voice for theater! (...no, not musical theater, just theater...)
@mzmiller523 жыл бұрын
They always say the original is the best. Proven so many times. Streisand, lenye, lupone, merman, Glynis johns, Ellen Greene, ebersole, Jennifer Holliday.
@user-ug6wm2xr5t5 жыл бұрын
Ну наконец то нашёл двигающееся изображение Лотты Леньи.
@maksimilijan50295 жыл бұрын
i think this is where frank zappa got "suzy? Suzy creamcheese aaaagh this the voice of ya conscience babe..." from... + louie louie
@user-gp8iz7zc9v10 ай бұрын
Pirate Jenny marine faithful
@lukewarm53563 жыл бұрын
Freakin hell that is amazing. Think Alex Harvey mighta been a fan
@alanoneill3065 Жыл бұрын
Next?
@AceinIN8 жыл бұрын
I'm glad I found this English version of "Pirate Jenny" sung by Lotte Lenya herself. I'm puzzled that she used this translation. It was panned by several people as being an "adaptation" rather than a translation.
@AceinIN8 жыл бұрын
Agreed!
@catwoman070767 жыл бұрын
Definitely an adaptation rather than translation. An updating, also! Now the ship with the eight sails has become a dark freighter. See the original movie for the German "eight sails" version. They have it with subtitles!
@vasthiduran98907 жыл бұрын
Adam McIntosh do you have the German lyrics?
@sydneygurewitzclemens90236 жыл бұрын
The New York version of Threepenny Opera (in the 1950's -- I saw it with her in it!) at Theater de Lys used this translation, as did many others until recently.
@johnhein25395 жыл бұрын
Well, she probably understood the character better than anyone. Possibly more than Brecht himself. I think about how her voice breaks about the ribbon in her hair, the once nice pretty thing she wants to give herself. She might agree with the spirit of the lyrics or something.
@roderickfernandez85542 жыл бұрын
Sometime in the 1960s I was at do and I was speaking with lenya I was afraid of becoming tongue-tied as I realized I was speaking with Jenny I was only in in my twenties and haven't been in New York too long I remember when I got home I called my parents and said you'll never believe it I was speaking with Lottie lasagna tonight and my mother said who is Lotte lenya yes I just laugh
@GabrielEHurtadoV-uz5ow6 ай бұрын
Of course, she won the Tony for this musical.
@ronbarrett77249 ай бұрын
Found the song by reading Bob Dylans book.
@geospot46796 жыл бұрын
Kill them now? Or later?...she is brilliant!
@DTJ36899 ай бұрын
I find it very "weird" in that my only context for Lotte Lenya was in the role of Rosa Kleb! So, it is a bit "weird" to see Spectre's number 3 on stage singing!
@groovy34438 жыл бұрын
It's 4:25 AM...
@fergusmurray18283 жыл бұрын
Jenny? Never heard of Jenny.
@pedromilek27116 жыл бұрын
Yeah man, Dylan got it right
@conniemartin48785 жыл бұрын
The coarse accompaniment is rushing a great artist.
@buckjohnson37483 жыл бұрын
Hey, anyone who knows threepenny opera. Do you know why in some version polly sings this song instead of jenny?
@warrengwonka24793 жыл бұрын
It was originally written for Polly. But Lotte Leona did it so well…
@user-pm8lo6qe2b4 жыл бұрын
!!!!
@fossseseptique3 жыл бұрын
the only mistake in this great translation and this astonishing performance is the last line ;"That'll learn yah" ..Which should of course be; "That'll teach yah." Polly Peacha
@warrengwonka24793 жыл бұрын
It means it will teach you. Dialect.
@suzannestultz3919 Жыл бұрын
Actually, where I grew up people did say, That’ll learn ya” (or sometimes “That’ll learn ya, dern ya” 😉 ) As the comment below points out, it’s part of the dialect.
@kiwilernerАй бұрын
It's idiomatic -- "learn" is used for "teach" in some dialects, both in the U.S. and England. "That'll learn ya" is a very specific phrase.
@user-qf6ig7kv1g3 жыл бұрын
Для меня это мало понятно, я не знаю языка, но чувствую музыку, есть Высоцкий Владимир, который говорил как-то слово "зонг" и упоминал Брехта, а я знаю и читал "Трёхгрошовая опера" и знаю о Вейле и Лотте Лейле и ещё о Бобе Дилане.
@Rollich111 жыл бұрын
What year was this stage appearance? Ms Lenya is surprisingly youthful, more so than when I saw her in New York in 1953.
@rolleicanon7 жыл бұрын
True. And more youthful than in From Russia With Love.
@gregorywiederecht5 жыл бұрын
Black and white photography flatters her immensely.
@rolanddepous21483 жыл бұрын
HILDEGARD KNEF NR. 1
@jarretwolfman Жыл бұрын
does anyone know who played lucy? :)
@wonder-womyn Жыл бұрын
I believe this is from 1961.
@wonder-womyn Жыл бұрын
1966
@lolitamartin30842 жыл бұрын
Gotcha girl
@silviaruhsen46663 жыл бұрын
' A' of kiel
@chmj09284 ай бұрын
0:26
@KCastens5 жыл бұрын
The Danish sing a song writer Sebastian created a rather different music for the translated text. Even though you don't understand the exact words, you know the contents - try to take a listen to this very powerful version 🙂 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rrhdbKiHqsfblWw.html
@ohrenrabe333 жыл бұрын
The night of the long knives, that is the fascist dream of vengeance.