Three Penny Opera > English-Language Soundtrack

Show Details

Show: Die Dreigroschenoper (56)
Music: Kurt Weill (341)
Lyrics: Bertolt Brecht (100)
Book: Bertolt Brecht (100)

Recording Details

Date: 1962
Type: Audio / Film Cast
Language: English
Book: Wolfgang Staudte (2) — Screenplay, Günther Weisenborn (2) — Screenplay
Translation: Marc Blitzstein (56)
Engineer: Paul Goodman (33)
Liner Notes: Miles Kreuger (42)
Director: Wolfgang Staudte (2)
Conductor: Samuel Matlovsky (8)
Music Director: Samuel Matlovsky (8)
Performer: Jane Connell (22), Sammy Davis Jr. (129), George S. Irving (37), Martha Schlamme (5), Jo Wilder (2)
Notes: English-language soundtrack of the 1962 German film. Sammy Davis, Jr. is the only actor to appear in the film itself. His scenes as the Streetsinger (a character who does not appear in the original German film) were edited in for US audiences.
Shortcode: [r6039]

Releases (2)

Format: LP
Label: RCA Victor LSO-1086
Released: 1964
Audio: Stereo
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# Tracks: 15
Lists: 32 collectors / 8 wish lists
History: 1 Revisions
Shortcode: [rl7980]

Side 1:
1. Overture
2. The Ballad of Mack the Knife
3. Morning Anthem; Instead-Of Song
4. Love Song
5. Barbara Song
6. Melodrama and Polly's Song
7. The World Is Mean
Side 2:
1. Solomon Song
2. Pirate Jenny
3. Tango Ballad
4. Ballad of Dependency
5. Jealousy Duet
6. Useless Song
7. Call from the Grave; How to Survive; The Mounted Messenger; Reprieved
8. Happy Ending