[Dixielandjazz] Louis Armstrong and Lotte Lenya

[Harry Callaghan]

And how many of you realize that Lotte was the villainous with retractable
poisoned daggers in her shoes pitted against 007 in "From Russia With Love"?

On 8/10/10, David M Richoux <tubaman at tubatoast.com> wrote:
>
> 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?
>>
>>
>
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