Kurt Weill - American Songbook Series (Smithsonian Collection)

The Smithsonian American Songbook Series traces the legacy of American songwriters with individual volumes devoted to a number of artists. This one featurs music by Kurt Weill in interpretationts by artist like Louis Armstong, Benny Goodman, Lotte Lenya, Bing Crosby, Lee Wiley, Sarah Vaughan and many others.

Kurt Julian Weill (March 2, 1900 – April 3, 1950) was a prominent and popular German-Jewish composer, active from the 1920s, and in his later years in the United States. He left nazi Germany in 1933 for Paris, London and then the USA in 1936. He was a leading composer for the stage who was most well known for his fruitful collaborations with Bertolt Brecht. With Brecht, he developed productions such as his most well known work "The Threepenny Opera", a Marxist critique of capitalism, which included the ballad "Mack the Knife". Weill was a socialist who held the ideal of writing music that serveda socially useful purpose. He also wrote a number of works for the concert hall, as well as several Judaism themed pieces.

Tracklist:


1. Mack the Knife -- Louis Armstrong, Louis Armstrong
2. Jenny -- Helen Forrest, Benny Goodman & His Orchestra
3. That's Him -- Mary Martin
4. September Song -- Bing Crosby
5. This Is New -- Lee Wiley
6. Green-Up Time -- Buddy Clark
7. One Life to Live -- Portia Nelson
8. Susan's Dream -- Kaye Ballard
9. One Touch of Venus -- Greta Keller
10. Moon-faced, Starry-eyed -- The Hi-Lo's
11. Speak Low -- Sarah Vaughan
12. Pirate Jenny -- Lotte Lenya
13. Lonely House -- June Christy
14. Lost in the Stars -- Tony Bennett
15. It Never Was You -- Judy Garland
16. Alabama Song -- Georgia Brown
17. Mr. Right -- Dorothy Loudon
18. There's Nowhere to Go but up -- William Roy, Julie Wilson
19. Surabaya Johnny -- Lotte Lenya
20. My Ship -- Lena Horne

Kurt Weill - American Songbook Series (Smithsonian Collection)
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