Moritat von Mackie Messer by Bertolt Brecht

Status: open processed

Added, thanks!

If you are looking for cover versions, I found the following on discogs;

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Just-Mackie-Messer-Und-Der-Haifisch-Der-Hat-Z%C3%…

Various ‎– Just Mackie Messer ...Und Der Haifisch, Der Hat Zähne

Label: Universal Edition ‎– 01616-2

Format: CD, Compilation

Country: Austria

Released: 2002

Several implausible versions to go with many familiar ones.

Elsewhere there is the Muppets' version from Series 3, available on Youtube

www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpSGtT_s7XA

I'm doing some research on performances of this song, so hope to add to the database.

Thanks for pointing to that V. A. release.

I actually happened to stumble over that one, too, when researching for the Czech version ;-).

Quite some of the versions included on that compilation were already in the database. I've now added the ones by Milva, Erroll Garner, Hildegard Knef, Eartha Kitt and Peggy Lee. See Mack the Knife

Thanks for your support!

I've just added a version from an Enya CD, first published on LP by Island records in 1985.

However she is not the performer, but it's done by some group called "Jazz Club", which is not readily identifiable.

I guess it must be some session musicians for the film soundtrack.

The best I can manage, sorry.

A link of relevance

http://enya.sk/2012/07/collecting-enya-the-frog-prince/

A bit more research on iMDB suggests that the jazz band consisted of 4 French musician/composers.

Jean-Louis Chautemps

Emilhenco

Alby Cullaz

Eric Dervieu

They are named as "Dance band members" and given their careers I would feel confident that they actually performed the songs.

Thanks for bringing up that version!

It indeed seems to be a complicated one and looks like we need to gain some more detailed info about the performers (who contributed four cover versions).

Alby Cullaz played double bass, and was formerly President of the French Jazz Academy. Died in 1998, obituary at http://www.liberation.fr/culture/1998/02/10/mort-du-bassiste-de-jazz-alby-cullaz…

Emilhenco, also known as Emile sergent, seems to have been a guitarist/singer. There are 17 albums listed on a French database, http://www.encyclopedisque.fr/artiste/1661.html

There's very little online about him, however.

Eric Dervieu is a French drummer, born in 1956 and apparently still performing.

See http://www.jmfrance.org/biographies/eric-dervieu

Jean-Louis Chautemps was born in 1931, and is still playing saxophone, or at least was less than a year ago, acccording to this site;-

http://www.lesdnj.com/article-jean-louis-chautemps-bientot-sur-scene-123396453.h…

So overall this seems to be a version by a quartet of extremely well respected French jazz musicians.

If you want a translation of the French I can help out.

Following a bit more research, I've come across versions by Andre Previn, OscarPeterson and others at

http://www.jazzstandards.com/compositions-1/macktheknife.htm

I didn't see them on this database.

John

Right now, I'm too tired...

My French is very basic but should be sufficient to get the needed info from those pages.

Thanks & greets!

Just come across another version I'd forgotten about. More of a parody, but starts off the same, and same Music.

It's called "Mack the Bomb", performed by Pete Seeger, and on the CD

Best of Broadside 1962-1988 Disc 1 Track09 Mack the Bomb

On YouTube

I had moved on to adding lots of other stuff and nearly forgotten about those Frenchmen...

Unfortunately automatically generated youtube videos like the one you provided for "Mack the Bomb" are not available in Germany (where I live) and many other countries.

Frenchmen??? Surely Germans!

'Those Frenchmen' = that "Jazz Club"...

I've added "Mack the Bomb" to the original LP release, now. See Mack the Bomb

Format: Audio single 78 rpm Single 78rpm