Lotte Lenya Singing "Seeräuber Jenny" (Pirate Jenny)

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Uploaded by on Jul 7, 2008

Lotte Lenya singing "Seeräuber Jenny" in the original 1931 film Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera). So intense in its simplicity!

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  • The disconnect between her sweet high voice and the song's subject matter is really disconcerting.

  • Help! I cannot get this song out of my head. I go around all day singing un a ship with ocht sails, und fifty cannonen. It just keeps going on and on. Make it stop!

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  • I like the Nina Simone version better, she sounded more psycho and demented.

  • @upupaepops1988 I'm not much a German speaker so I can't be sure it's what I should be hearing, but my impression is that pattern gives it a kind of manic feel that fits quite well with the content. I'd guess it's intentional.

  • @LibraryPervert the 'rock era' has some of the most profoundly un-haunting and lyrically banal music there is.

    'I am the walrus, I am the eggman, koo-koo-ka-choo' - John Lennon.

    quite...

  • Und, und, und! Must every line begin with 'und'?! If you must use conjunctions so much, as least throw in a few different ones!

  • Ugh

  • Perfect!

  • Truly frightening.

  • Thank you thank you so much for uploading!!

  • dadaismus how i love that woman she should have a statue made

  • This movie by Georg W. Pabst, although has differences from the stage musical, gives us the most closely related and reliable picture of the performing style and mood of the original 1928 stage performance.

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