+Ron Richo I Love this information age. I recently saw the Mcdonald's Moon Man Mac Tonight commercials for the first time. They sampled "Mac The Knife" Bobby Darin's version. Know I know what his muse was. Nostalgia

+Ron Richo Not I. I saw through its vapidity even as a sixteen-year old. The Threepenny Opera was playing in New York at the Theatre De Lys in the Village, and my girlfriend and I took the train in to see it and i became a Brecht-Weill, Lotte Lenya groupie! So, of course, Darin wasn't even in the running at that point!

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I think Bobby Darins version is more chilling. Because he kinda blows it off like ol good times. Plus he mentions nothing about killing the only time a murderous word shows up is in the name. It's kinda what made the shining so scary. Takes you as far as your mind goes

I recent did cover live Mack the Knife, style something like Bobby Darin. Like Bobby first 2 verses did in Bb, then progressing half step till I got to last verse Eb. Last week open mic at Meadowlark and Crescent Moon in Lincoln I sang it, accompanying myself with portable electronic piano.

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I wonder how those kids turned out...

Maybe she sang the Dean Martin version.

The melody is kind of repetitive and (deceptively) simple, so it could maybe work as a lullaby. The words, well, I don't know.

Is it so strange? How about this .... Rock-a-Bye baby On the treetop When the wind blows the cradle will rock. When the bough breaks the cradle will fall & Down will come baby Cradle & All. Lol.

It’s actually even older than that, the opera is heavily based off of the beggars opera from 1700s England.

Send in the Clowns is that Carol Burnett song.

Is the song that old, though?@@rabidlorax1650

Signs of the times. The medium is the message as Marshall McLuhan used to say. Very much like what we have going on right now in our country. Things are getting bizarre, the government more corrupt all the time.

The dominance of the National Socialists in Germany, as well as the Soviet Socialists, the Italian Fascists and to an extent the American version (the New Deal) all came out of the same post Great War cauldron that included fatalistic nihilism, collective memories of essentially the first 'factory' war in human history, of the young veterans with remnants of actual physical wounds as well as emotional wounds (we now refer as PTSD) as well as the friends, families and others who interacted with them. While revisionist, agenda based history ignores the 1930's contemporary similarities in the almost similar messages of the NAZI's, Communists, Fascists and New Dealers, all basically authoritarian branches of the same ideology, the true, enlightened historian refuses to be stupefied by idiotic 'right wing/left wing' meaningless labels. Like their counterparts today, those supporters were only too anxious to surrender individuality to a collective identity, ruled by a small group elites who 'know best' what is good for masses. Selective criminal enforcement, 2 tiered justice, elite sympathizers acceptance of police abuses to their opponents and ignoring actual criminality of who they support, sacrificing good of masses for benefit of elites and their cronies, etc. The 'villains' of each specific group (Jews, Ukrainians, etc.) were easily stereotypes for general hatred, but also had resources to seize to help fund dictators' goals. This obvious factor often overlooked. (Hitler even acknowledged, that for Germany to prosper since it lacked the colonies of UK to acquire wealth, it had to look to seizing wealth from its undesirables and its neighbors. (The NAZIs took the Polish treasury on its invasion. Captured Jews had their possessions seized and inventoried all as part.) Hate may have been a big part of NAZI actions, but greed was a very close, under reported second. My comments are like an ink blot test. Critisms will indicate more about the critics, than the hard cold facts I've presented.

Only small portion saved after 1939 invasion. A significant portion, as well as value of captured Polish civilian assets went to National Socialists' war effort. Revisionism concentrates only on National Socialists' hatred, which was real and cannot be denied, but greed was a very significant reason for their efforts. (Former NAZI collaboration ['60Minutes 1998 interview] and current American political puppet master, George Soros, helped inventory possessions of Hungarian Jews, for NAZIs, after their capture for extermination. This happened everywhere NAZIs captured 'undesirables'. Current American leftists advocate similar tacts for 'deporables'.) Unrelated side note, BTW: Where do you think British Empire acquired their 'gold'? From the lands they conquered and genocide they practiced. Two wrongs don't make a right. Socialism, be it National, Soviet, Democratic, Fascist (yes Mussolini was a socialist, former leader of an Italian socialist party) and current American socialists, depends on confiscation of assets by rulers, then distributed as a group of elitists as they see fit to helpless masses. Eventually assets run low, and you end with a Venezuela, or with subject at hand, NAZI Germany, that had to go outside its borders to seek more assets. If you're a National Socialist (NAZI) sympathizer, you'll hate my response, if your a 'democratic' socialist, you'll also hate my response, because all fanatics hate it when their fantasy bubble bursts.

I really feel more people should see the art and artists that the nazis banned at this time..I think we owe it.

@@doraran5158 Pretty convenient that you leave out the part where Mussolini abandoned and denounced socialism and Hitler literally put Marxists in gas chambers, but I guess you really want to pretend that democratic socialists are the same thing as Nazis. Also pretty hilarious how you'll just try to reclaim the word "Revisionist" too.

Mussolini WAS the consummate SOCIALIST! US Social Security program was modeled on Italian Fascist program. From gun control, to health care, to education, crony capitalists, contempt for religion (don't forget how Pope despised Mussolini for controls on Catholic Church and his life style. ['Rougue' priests were forcibly given castor oil by Fascist loyalists].), their version of censoring what they deemed unacceptable ('hate speech' in contemporary Democrat Socialist new speak) they were total socialists. I've spoken to many older Italians (I grew up in a mixed neighborhood with many who migrated here post WW2) who lived under Mussolini. Things great until he ran out of money then decided to exact wealth, British style, by taking colonies in Africa, that actually was about 3 centuries too late, hence his failure. With so many Italians in US, Mussolini assumed a natural alliance with America, whom Italian people loved, instead latter day imperialism poisoned this, and Mussolini forced to align with Germans, who Italians despised more recently from WW1 experience, but predated from Germanic type peoples' (Austrians' tyranny over large swaths of Italy for centuries.) This gets worse in WW2 when NAZIs used Italian (and Hungarian) forces as 'cannon fodder' ('expendable human lives) to soften Eastern Front for German forces. This under reported historical fact turned what was left of Italian support for Mussolini sour. The National Socialist German Workers Party (NAZIs) and the Marxists were rival cousins, from different branches of same socialist tree. (Think of Catholics and Protestants, basically branches of Christianity killing each other, or Sunnis and Shi'ites branches of Islam killing each other to give you a more realistic perspective of what actually happened with NAZIs killing their Marxist cousins, rather than the 'fan club' mentality that justifies brutality of the side you adore.) 'Good' over spending socialist Hitler, also ran out of money for his socialist utopian dreams, confiscating assets from Jews, later invading Poland for main purpose to seize treasury. Soviet and NAZIs, allies from '39 to '41, (Molotov-von Ribbetrof (sp?) Treaty) both invaded Poland from opposite sides. BTW: You are the revisionist. I will wager you are also ignorant of the Handshar. In Europe today, most museums have dismantled their displays of Handshar, the movement Hitler personally admired. Since this reality is embarrassing to contemporary politically correct narratives. (Handshar divisions were Muslims recruited, 300,000 raised by Mufti of Jerusalem alone, who fought with NAZIs and were only non-Aryans to be allowed to join SS.)

The original

So does the other lol?

Are there ones that don't?

He's still portrayed as a killer but the Bobby Darin version is much more...subtle. 7 kids and an old man weren't burned alive in it either.

​ versions I've heard some versions keep it while others dumped it. However in almost every version of the song I've heard over the years , whether it be in a performance of The THREE-PENNY opera or just a cover by some singer the verse about Jenny

The Doors' "Alabama Song" was written by Brecht and Weill. Check out the original version of that song.

Andrew Soros how so

A body oozing life, a man disappears after a withdrawal, drowning by cement, was not meant to be funny. The uptempo rhythm of Mr.Darin's version made the lyrics ironic.

It’s in German, the trilling is a flourish

Louis Armstrong did originally, with Lotte Lenya in the audience. Great lyrics by Bertolt Brecht as well.

@@biswadipdasgupta4204 YES INDEED !!!!!

I know this is a 2 years old comment but I'd like to say that this was a very common way in German theatre and movies to speak in general

same LMAO

+Michael Simpson On youtube. If not, try Amazon. It's widely available!

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I dont know about sanitized and hipster, why not make the best of both worlds and enjoy both incarnations of the tune. I mean, on that line we should be prosecuting weill for ripping off Strauss

Bobby's description of Mackie was still that of a killer.

+Martina Massaro On youtube. If not, Amazon!

you can easily find the whole movie on you tube as I have watched part of it

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Therefore, wonderful!

Macheath fooled you

Bobby's version subs Lotte Lenya's name in place of "Polly Peachum" In homage to the performer who was in the original play and movie.

@@tonycanabal1659 Louis Armstrong originally did that, with Lotte Lenya in the audience. Great lyrics by Bertolt Brecht as well and composition by Kurt Weill, Lenya's husband.

Miss Lotte Lenya's song "Pirate Jenny" comes later in the film and is just as good as " Mack the Knife".

Too many.

The guy singing this song in this movie died in the holocaust.

Well it's part of a film, so it's not a stand alone piece.

He`s essentially Jack The Ripper.