What Song Are You Listening To, Right Now?

Mack the Knife · Bobby Darin


Lotte Lenya?

As Rosa Klebb in "From Russia With Love" - The James Bond International Fan Club

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Here's the story behind her being included in the lyrics of this classic.

The people mentioned in this song are all characters in The Threepenny Opera... except one. Lotte Lenya was the wife of the song's co-writer Kurt Weill (she played Jenny in the original production). When Louis Armstong recorded the song, he was looking at names of the characters in the play and thought Lenya was a character, not a cast member. Subsequent versions of the song were based on Armstrong's lyrics, so this mistake lived on.
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Lotte Lenya is a character actress. You may best recall her as Col. Kleb(b) of SMIRSCH in the film "Dr. No."
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https://www.songfacts.com/facts/bobby-darin/mack-the-knife

I've also read that she was present at Louis Armstrong's studio recording of the song and "Satchmo" mentioned her as a shout out due to her Husband's having co-written the song.
 
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This is horrible. What year is this from?

I'm guessing she sucked an Arabian's dick and he bought her a music studio.
Zero musical merits.
 
Sunshine Superman- Donovan



Jude McAllister
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Sue Lyon came into Donovan's life at the end of 1965. This was two or three years before he met his "Jennifer Juniper" (Jenny Boyd). Lyon had starred in "Lolita" and "Night of the Iguana" before meeting Donovan. The couple dated until 1967 when Sue ended the relationship abruptly. Donovan had evidently slipped LSD in Sue's and her friend's drinking cup at a party. Sue described her trip as "frightening and disturbing" and she "felt her self-control disintegrating". After this incident Lyon never spoke to Donovan again until 1975. The two are now good friends and Sue attended Ione Skye's (Donovan's daughter) marriage to King Ad-Rock (with the Beastie Boys)

Seriously considering Donovan's conquests- Jenny Boyd, Linda Lawrence, Enid (I forgot her last name) and now this chick!- Donovan was one chick magnet.
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On the other end of the spectrum, there's Nina Hagen.


Talent for miles. Colorotura.

This song doesn't do her talent justice.

Perhaps her nipples. :dunno:
 
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Yeah, not sure if I'm attracted to crazy, or crazy's attracted to me.
Don Rickles was the shit!

 
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