[Dixielandjazz] Alabama song

[Jen Beaven]

Since we're off-topically on the subject, Dave Van Ronk does a version of
'Alabama Song' not to be missed on the album "Let No One Deceive You" (on
which the equally inimitable Frankie Armstrong sings a 'Pirate Jenny' that
is also swoonworthy.)


/jen
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On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:34 AM, Harry Callaghan <meetmrcallaghan at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Thanx, Anton......
>
> I certainly don't mind your correcting my spelling.cause to tell you the
> truth when I first discovered the Doors' recording of it, I thought it was
> from Diana Ross' movie, "Mahogany"
>
> I do have a video clip of it being done as part of some stage production of
> the opera which I probably recorded off my local PBS station
>
> Harry
>
>
> On 8/12/10, Anton Crouch <anton.crouch at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
> >
> > 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.
> >>
> >
> >
>
>
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