How to categorize this performance? "Mack the Knife" is the opening song to Kurt Weill and Bertold Brecht's music drama, The Threepenny Opera. It introduces the character of the highwayman, MacHeath.
The song was made a hit by Louis Armstrong and Bobby Darrin in their individual jazz and pop recordings. Sting's recording, from the album, Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill, is sung in a more straight style, closer to the original. He also starred as MacHeath in a revival in New York in 1989.
This is a different translation so it doesn't start with "Oh the shark has pretty teeth dear..."
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