[Dixielandjazz] Alabama song

[David M Richoux]

Many of you probably know Turk Murphy did several versions of "Mack  
the Knife" (and as related in the liner notes for the Lotte Lenya CD,  
Turk did the arrangement for Louis Armstrong ) and "Pirate Jenny" with  
Bea Barrett singing. However, no "Alabama Song," surprisingly!

There is a fairly long list of cover versions for Alabama Song here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alabama_Song  (I added several this  
morning.)

( Orchestra USA Sextet ( Jerome Richardson (f, bcl, as), Thad Jones  
(t), Mike Zwerin (bt, dir), Jimmy Raney (g), Richard Davis (b), Connie  
Kay (d))
recorded Bluebird CD: 62852-RB — "Theatre Music Of Kurt Weill" that  
includes a rather swinging version of Alabama Song (and several Macks) )

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIEDN-ntz4s  is a sort of "Cow-Punk  
Honky-tonk" version by The Long Tall Texans. (not to be confused with  
the book of the same name.)
Not OKOM per , but interesting...

Dave Richoux


On Aug 12, 2010, at 9:54 AM, Jen Beaven wrote:

> 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.)
>
>
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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.
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Some men see things as they are and say why....I dream things that  
>> never
>> were and say why not            -
>>                       -George Bernard Shaw
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