Mack the Knife

Name: Mack the Knife
Uploaded: 1956-01-01
Duration: 3 min 8 s
Description: Written by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht for their 1928 music drama The Threepenny Opera, this song tells of a knife-wielding London underworld criminal named Macheath. Louis Armstrong recorded it in 1955 with lyrics translated by Marc Blitzstein.

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1956 50s pop

Written by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht for their 1928 music drama The Threepenny Opera, this song tells of a knife-wielding London underworld criminal named Macheath. Louis Armstrong recorded it in 1955 with lyrics translated by Marc Blitzstein.