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A Moritat is a medieval version of the murder ballad performed by strolling minstrels.In The Threepenny Opera, the Moritat singer with his street organ introduces and closes the drama with the tale of the deadly Mackie Messer, or Mack the Knife, a character based on the dashing highwayman Macheath in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (who was in turn based on the historical thief Jack Sheppard).
"Pedro Navaja" (English: Peter Blade) is a salsa song written and performed by Rubén Blades from the 1978 collaboration with Willie Colón, Siembra, about a criminal of the same name. [1] Navaja means "folding knife" in Spanish. Inspired by the song "Mack the Knife", [2] it tells the story of a panderer's life and presumed death
As the final song in their set, "The Knife" was performed often in the band's first five years (a live version appears on the Genesis Live album from 1973). It was dropped from their regular set for the 1973-74 tour for Selling England by the Pound, though it was occasionally played as an encore during that tour, [9] and appeared sporadically in the band's concerts through 1982.
Mac Tonight is a character that was used in marketing for McDonald's restaurants during the late 1980s. Known for his crescent moon head, sunglasses and piano-playing, the character played the song "Mack the Knife", which was made famous in the United States by Bobby Darin.
Ella in Berlin is a 1960 live album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald.This album was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance."
Swifties were quick to dissect the lyrics of Charli's new track, "Sympathy Is a Knife," combing through the song for hints about who the unnamed girl is that Charli says "taps my insecurities."
Almost anyone who's heard it has soft spot for the song that finds Bowser (Jack Black) belting out lines like, "Mario, Luigi, and a Donkey Kong, too. A thousand troops of Koopas couldn't keep me ...
Jack Jones, the Grammy-winning crooner who sang the theme song for the classic series The Love Boat, has died.He was 86 years old. The musician died on Wednesday, Oct. 23 at Eisenhower Medical in ...