[Dixielandjazz] Louis Armstrong and Lotte Lenya

[David M Richoux]

It is on "Lotte Lenya Sings Kurt Weill / Levine, Lenya, Armstrong,  
Gilford, et al"

http://www.amazon.com/Lotte-Lenya-Levine-Armstrong-Gilford/dp/B00000JHIK/ref=pd_sim_m_1

and the track is #23 an eight +  minute long piece called "Mack the  
Knife Session takes from The Threepenny Opera" - you can buy the mp3  
at Amazon.

the sample 30 seconds is Louis teaching Lenya...

Dave Richoux


On Aug 10, 2010, at 12:43 PM, Robert Ringwald wrote:

> DJML member Bob Smith robert.smith at tele2.no sent me an MP3 of  
> Armstrong and Lenya singing "Mac The Knife" from a NPR program.
> It is the completed version of the recording I was speaking of  
> earlier.
>
> In the segment I heard somewhere, Louis was trying to get Lotte to  
> get the phrasing right to end the song.  She just could not do it --  
> She couldn't swing.  Louis kept saying "No No" and then trying to  
> teach her the phrasing over and over.
>
> On the MP3 that Bob sent to me, the song is ended with a band  
> ensemble.  Obviously Lenya never could get the ending right so the  
> arrangement was changed to end with a band ensemble.
>
> Does anyone have the out take?
>