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@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.
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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).
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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"?
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This is not her original performance but a re-recording from the sixties for CBS. But it is indeed beautiful!
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lyrics Bertold BRECHT (1898 - 1956)
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This is more fervent and mystical, more "rock" than the Doors version.
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Who's the other woman singing?
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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)
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This is the coolest verson yet...even better than the Doors version!
valeriemci1 1 year ago 5
@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).
brennanyoung 4 months ago 2