MACK THE KNIFE!

Post by **lurch** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:19 am

My favorite versions of Mack The Knife include:

The original Brecht himself..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QXJ3OXWaOY

of course B Darin ..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Qrjtr_uFac&feature=related

ELLA! ELLA! ELLA!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouF4J45Mn5s&feature=related

and Louie!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=My9B4uQYJn4&NR=1

oh man..oh man...those are my favorite versions..I know you got yours.. Whata classic tune!!!

Post by **onewyteduck** » Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:46 pm

All of those are great and I don't think you can top Bobby Darin on this one!

I do like the Nick Cave cover tho.....it's all kind of slightly out of kilter. I think that's why I like it!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3_2zbZwDlM

Post by **lurch** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 3:36 am

..pretty neat Ducky...the out of kilter seems alot closer to the original.

Post by **danlo** » Fri Jul 18, 2008 7:05 pm

I bought Beyond the Sea two years ago and it's one of my fav DVDs ever-Spacey almost out sings Bobby D, and Bobby D is my hero!

Post by **lurch** » Sat Jul 19, 2008 12:42 am

if Kate of LOST had a song it would be.. Beyond The Sea

Post by **danlo** » Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:06 am

**groan**

Post by **drew** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 9:57 pm

This version, also a classic.

Post by **lurch** » Sat Jul 26, 2008 11:26 pm

more like Mac The Trans Fat..

Post by **dANdeLION** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 8:52 pm

I'm not into Mac the Knife, but there are several interesting takes on All Along the Watchtower on Youtube.....

XTC

Dave Matthews Band

U2

Jimi Hendrix

Neil Young

Pearl Jam

Bruce Springsteen

Post by **danlo** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:20 pm

I'll have to check out the XTC, I bet you can't guess that my fav version is Neil Young's...

Post by **Endymion9** » Wed Oct 01, 2008 11:42 pm

When I was in my teens, I would watch Monty Python on PBS and then got hooked on the program that followed it, The Earnie Kovaks show. Had never heard of Kovaks at the time but quickly got hooked.

Every week they would run a series of connected short skits, sans voice, with just this eyrie music playing in the background. An oscilloscope trace of the music would run across the screen in front of the skits. My little sister burst in my room one week and said, what is that show you listen to.....it's driving me crazy....i had to come see. We started watching it together every week and laughing our heads off. Several years later we discovered the song was Mac The Knife by hearing Casie Kasem answer a trivia question about it and playing a little of it on his top 40 show. I think the question concerned the song covered the most time swhich hit the top 40 the most times.

Have the Bobby D version on my iPod these days.

Post by **danlo** » Thu Apr 09, 2009 5:25 am

Kevin Spacey as Bobby Darin Mack the Knife

Kevin's Watch

Kevin's Watch

MACK THE KNIFE!

MACK THE KNIFE!