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Originally Posted by Eichhörnchen
I got into the music of Kurt Weill and Brecht at the age of 22, when I'd listened to all the jazz albums that the local record-library had to offer and pulled out this old LP entitled "Die Dreigroschenoper". In it of course I found Lotte Lenya, who eventually led me also to a lusting after Ute Lemper:
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Louis Armstrong and Bobby Darin got me interested in Weil and Brecht with the song
Mack The Knife; later there was The Doors version of
Alabama Song. I also got more info on Weil, Brecht, Lenya, and other cabaret-style artists, form an unlikely source: the owner of the rock club where I worked in the mid to late 70s, a very laid back Louisiana-born guy with a mind as sharp as a tack was a very big fan of the Nazi fleeing composers and artists and would often discuss the music and would even, sometimes, break into some rather serviceable renditions of some of the works...
...and, now, a little Lotte:
...and a bit of Louis & Lotte:
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