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18 December 2007

For all you folks who are sick of Xmas music... two different versions of "Pirate Jenny" from The Threepenny Opera.→[More:]

Version 1: Lotte Lenya, from the 1931 film version directed by G.W. Pabst

Version 2: Hildegard Knef, live (c.1960?) with the Kurt Edelhagen Orchester

post by: Atom Eyes at: 11:45 | 1 comment

How about version 3? from the album The Young Gods Play Kurt Weill. These recordings are studio versions of songs performed by The Young Gods at the Kurt Weill tribute concert staged in Switzerland in September 1989, at the request of the Festival du Bois de la Batie (Geneva) and Fri-Son (Fribourg).

Here Jenny, frustrated by her position as a dishwasher in a Turnbridge brothel, dreams of a warship - complete with 8 sails and 50 guns - that will sail into port and kill everyone in sight. "And when your head will fall... I'll say "Hopla!""

posted by Zack_Replica 18 December | 23:40

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