Lotte Lenya - Moon of Alabama (Good Quality Audio)

[wasserdagger]

It's amusing to listen to this and realize that this singer, Lotte Lenya, also played the sadistic Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie 'From Russia with Love' (1963).

[domarigatosense]

The great Lotte Lenya...no one can match her.

Btw, why have all the cover versions removed the "pretty boy" from the text and replaced it with "little girl"?

[bobbilse]

@domarigatosense The song was written as a song being sung by prostitutes - Hence the reference to boys and dollars. Like "House Of The Rising Sun" (which is also a song being sung by a prostitute working in a house), men change the lyrics. Ironically, these two songs have this in common: the most famous pop versions of the two songs are by men, though they're women's songs. The theme of "House..." in particular, doesn't really apply to men, but The Animals aren't complaining.

[janhovers]

This is not her original performance but a re-recording from the sixties for CBS. But it is indeed beautiful!

[JUGAopet1]

lyrics Bertold BRECHT (1898 - 1956)

[LibraryPervert]

This is more fervent and mystical, more "rock" than the Doors version.

[jaguarjaguarjaguarja]

Who's the other woman singing?

[rockyj74426]

Following the Leipzig premiere (1927), the opera was presented in Berlin in December 1931 at the Theater am Schiffbauerdamm conducted by Alexander von Zemlinsky with Lotte Lenya as Jenny, Trude Hesterberg as Begbick, and Harald Paulsen as Jimmy. (from Wickipedia)

[PinkTowerMusic]

It was written in 1927 and performed then and again in the full production of Mahagonny in 1929 and 1930. Actually, I remember hearing this recording in the 1960's, part of an album she recorded in Berlin after the war (WWII).

[PinkTowerMusic]

It was written in 1927 and performed then and again in the full production of Mahagonny in 1929 and 1930

[roxydog2004]

Who said it was from the 30's??!!

[valeriemci1]

This is the coolest verson yet...even better than the Doors version!

[brennanyoung]

@valeriemci1 of course it is! The doors changed all the fabulous jazz chords into simple rock (however, their version was the first brecht-weill song I ever had on disc. Even dried onions are a bit like real onions, as Idries Shah pointed out).

[violosity]

I'd like to find the Kate Bush recording of this.

[cosycleaner]

nice song - but the 50s version surely, not from 1930.

[causabon99]

Are you sure this is her recording it in 1930?

[Tarabulus2009]

wow ! i had no idea. thanks for uploading this interesting song. i have heard the doors version so many times, this being the original is of course superior !