KURT WEILL Lost In The Stars TOM WAITS, LOU REED, VAN DYKE PARKS, JOHN ZORN +

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KURT WEILL Lost In The Stars TOM WAITS, LOU REED, VAN DYKE PARKS, JOHN ZORN +  A&M SP 9-5104 1985
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From Wiki: Kurt Julian Weill (German: March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950) was a German composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He was a leading composer for the stage who was best known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht. With Brecht, he developed productions such as his best-known work The Threepenny Opera, which included the ballad "Mack the Knife". Weill held the ideal of writing music that served a socially useful purpose. He also wrote a number of works for the concert hall, as well as several Judaism-themed pieces. In 1922 he joined the ‘Novembergruppe’, a group of leftist Berlin artists that included Hanns Eisler and Stefan Wolpe. Weill fled Nazi Germany in March 1933. A prominent and popular Jewish composer, Weill was officially denounced for his populist views and sympathies, and became a target of the Nazi authorities, who criticized and interfered with performances of his later stage works.... Sixty years after his death, Weill's music continues to be performed both in popular and classical contexts. In Weill's lifetime, his work was most associated with the voice of his wife, Lotte Lenya, but shortly after his death "Mack the Knife" was established by Louis Armstrong and Bobby Darin as a jazz standard. His music has since been recorded by many performers, ranging from Nina Simone, The Doors, Ella Fitzgerald, David Bowie, Judy Collins, John Zorn, Dagmar Krause, Steeleye Span, The Young Gods and PJ Harvey to New York's Metropolitan Opera and the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Singers as varied as Teresa Stratas, Ute Lemper, Gisela May, Anne Sofie von Otter, Max Raabe, Dee Dee Bridgewater and Marianne Faithfull have recorded entire albums of his music.
In 1985, Hal Willner produced Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill, a tribute album in which Weill's songs were interpreted by a variety of artists, including Todd Rundgren, Tom Waits, Lou Reed, John Zorn and Sting.
Track listing "Introduction from Mahagonny-Songspiel" – Steve Weisberg "The Ballad of Mac The Knife" (from The Threepenny Opera) – Sting and Dominic Muldowney "The Cannon Song" (from The Threepenny Opera) – The Fowler Brothers and Stan Ridgway "Ballad of the Soldier's Wife" – Marianne Faithfull and Chris Spedding "Johnny Johnson Medley" – Van Dyke Parks "Overture" "Johnny's Melody" "Aggie's Sewing Machine" "Alabama Song" (from Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny) – Ralph Schuckett with Richard Butler, Bob Dorough, Ellen Shipley and John Petersen "Youkali Tango" – Armadillo String Quartet "Der Kleine Leutnant Des Lieben Gottes" (The Little Lieutenant of the Loving God) (from Happy End) – John Zorn "September Song" (from Knickerbocker Holiday) – Lou Reed "Lost in the Stars" – Carla Bley with Phil Woods "What Keeps Mankind Alive?" (from The Threepenny Opera) – Tom Waits "Surabaya Johnny" (from Happy End) – Dagmar Krause "Oh Heavenly Salvation" (from Mahagonny) – Mark Bingham with Johnny Adams and Aaron Neville "Call From The Grave/Ballad In Which MacHeath Begs All Men For Forgiveness" (from The Threepenny Opera) – Todd Rundgren with Gary Windo "Speak Low" (from One Touch of Venus) – Charlie Haden and Sharon Freeman "In No Man's Land" (from Johnny Johnson) – Van Dyke Parks <