Mack The Knife - Selective List of Recorded Versions

Selective List of Recorded Versions

  • 1928/29 Bertolt Brecht
  • 1954 Gerald Price, Broadway cast recording of The Threepenny Opera
  • 1955 Lotte Lenya on the album Lotte Lenya Sings Berlin Theatre Songs of Kurt Weill
  • 1956 Louis Armstrong #20 hit single
    • Dick Hyman, instrumental
    • Billy Vaughn, instrumental
    • Sonny Rollins, jazz instrumental, on the album Saxophone Colossus
  • 1957 Bing Crosby with Bob Scobey on the album Bing with a Beat
  • 1958 Wolfgang Neuss with the Sender Freies Berlin Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Wilhem Brückner Rüggenburg (supervised and performed by Lotte Lenya) on the album Die Dreigroschenoper (CBS)
  • 1959 Bobby Darin, U.S. and UK #1
  • 1959 Eartha Kitt on the album The Fabulous Eartha Kitt
    • Bill Haley & His Comets on the album Strictly Instrumental
    • Kenny Dorham on the album Quiet Kenny
  • 1960 Ella Fitzgerald on the album Ella in Berlin: Mack the Knife
  • 1964 Dave Van Ronk on the albums Dave Van Ronk and the Ragtime Jug Stompers, in 1967 on Live at Sir George Williams University, and in 1992 on Let No One Deceive You
  • 1965 Ben Webster on the album Stormy Weather
  • 1968 The Doors on the album Live In Stockholm
  • 1977 Peggy Lee on the album Live in London
  • 1981 The Psychedelic Furs on the B-side of the single "Pretty in Pink", the 1994 album Here Came The Psychedelic Furs: B Sides and Lost Grooves, and the 2002 re-release of their self-titled first album
  • 1984 Frank Sinatra on the album L.A. Is My Lady
  • 1985 Sting on the album Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill
  • 1986 Dagmar Krause on the album Supply and Demand
  • 1988 Ute Lemper on the album Ute Lemper sings Kurt Weill
  • 1990 Roger Daltrey on the film soundtrack Mack the Knife
    • Kenny Garrett on the album African Exchange Student
  • 1991 The Young Gods on the album Play Kurt Weill
  • 1994 Lyle Lovett on the soundtrack to Quiz Show
    • Frank Sinatra with Jimmy Buffett on the album Duets II
  • 1995 Nick Cave on the album September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill
  • 1999 Max Raabe on the album Die Dreigroschenoper, Ensemble Modern
  • 1999 Lisa Stansfield on the soundtrack to Swing
  • 2000 The Brian Setzer Orchestra on the album Vavoom!
  • 2001 Robbie Williams on the album Swing When You're Winning

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