I read someone’s explaination of the song Mack The Knife and I couldn’t find it in the board so I just decided to start a new thread.
The person’s answer was that it was based on a play *The Beggar’s Opera * and the main character was named Macheth. This is incorrect.
The song came from the play Thee Penny Opera which was loosely based on the rise of Hitler. Germany didn’t like the play so the people who wrote it moved it to the states. The song Mack the Knife had so many versions, that the version Bobby Darin sings is not the original lyrics. Although it was made famous by Darrin, Sinatry, Fitzerald (Ella) and Armstrong also did versions of it. Sintra’s version was based off of Ella’s version.
Should anyone request the complete story I can write it. I am trying to do this between work.
The song Mac the Knife is by Bertholt Brecht for The Threepenny Opera, and is based on the Beggar’s Opera, with Macheath as the source of Mac The Knife.
The playright, Bertholt Brecht fled Nazi Germany because of his Socialist/Communist views, which would have got him jailed, Mac or no Mac.
I studied the earlier play, I did the later play, and I composed a brand-new score for Brecht’s Mother Courage. Plus, when my cat has a hairball, it sounds like “brecchht, brecchht.” And I back up aldiboronti times ten.
So? I forgot my one line in A Caucasian Chalk Circle. (The line was “Put his head over here, on a stick.” which I said as “Put… er… that.”) And when my cat’s pissed off it sounds like “Weil, Weil”. That gives me the awesome power to back aldiboronti up by three million times.
