Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Art-For-Art’s-Sake Theatre: Dee Snider “Mack the Knife”

Time once again for our usual midday Wednesday feature.

We've all seen the Stanley Steemer commercial featuring the artist behind We're Not Gonna Take It. It seems that Dee Snider is not finished surprising us, with this rendition of a song first heard in German for the 1928 musical The Threepenny Opera, and remixed with all that jazz in English by Louis Armstrong in 1956, and Bobby Darin in 1958.

You remember that one: “Und der Haifisch, der hat Zähne, Und die trägt er im Gesicht ...”
 

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