[Dixielandjazz] Alabama song

[Anton Crouch]

Hello Harry

Lotte Lenya recorded the piece at least twice - as part of a complete 
recording of the opera and as a track on her Kurt Weill theatre songs 
LP. I don't know of any version that could be described as jazz.

The full English title of the opera is "The rise and fall of the city of 
Mahaggany" (note: with an "a") and "Alabama song" is unusual in being 
set to English words and so performed even when the opera is given in 
the original German.

All the best,
Anton

On 12/08/2010 23:27, Harry Callaghan wrote:
> While on the subject of Kurt Weill compositions, who is familiar with
> his "Alabama Song" (sub-titled "The Whiskey Bar") from his opera
> "Mahoggany?-
> I first became acquainted with it being song by the Doors during the
> closing credits of
> a documentary covering their European tour and then came to discover
> that I had it all along on one of their LPs.