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Kurt WEILL has written: 'September song and other American Theatre songs of Kurt Weill' 'The Threepenny Opera'
Feelin' On Your Booty
the song directly before all i ask of you is why have you brought me here
"Friendship"
they act not sing but act. If they sing but don't at it's a song. If they sing and act it's a musical or opera. musicals are beter.
It is from Bertol Brecht's play the 'Threepenny Opera' and is about a lowlife criminal at the centre of the story who sleeps with whores and kills his enemies..
Berthold Brecht a German writer the original title is "Macki Messer" it's a part of an play called "Dreigroschen Oper"
The song is Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again, from the Phantom of the Opera
no one knows he was lipsynching
The song "Mack the Knife" (written in August, 1928) is from the German "Threepenny Opera" by Brecht & Weill about a violent, ruthless pimp, Macheath or Mackie Messer. This is the opening song to the opera. While Jenny Diver and Sukey Tawdrey are characters in the opera, Louie Miller, Lotte Lenya and Lucy Brown, while mentioned in the song, are not in the original opera (however, Lotte Lenya did appear in an off-Broadway production). references: http://german.about.com/library/blmus_hknef04mb.htm http://www.events-in-music.com/number-one-songs-mack-the-knife.html So, "Louie Miller" was apparently a John or simply a mark (victim) who was killed "after drawing out his cash" which Mac spent frivolously "like a sailor."
MINNIE DRIVER SING THIS SONG IT WAS FIRST SUNG IN THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA THE 2004/2005 SOUNTRACK.
The Original was fron 1923 threepenny opera but I think you are thinking of a newer version which was "Mack the Knife" sung by Louis Armstrong in 1954, but the song made most popular by Bobby Darin in 1958