Artist: Harald Paulsen & Lotte Lenya
Author: Berthold Brecht/Kurt Weill
Label: Telefunken
Year: 1928
In original cast of Bert Brecht & Kurt Weill's Dreigroschenoper in the Berlin Theater am Schiffbauerdamm. Based upon John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, while it also used ballads from François Villon and Rudyard Kipling. (see also: Kanonensong and Die Moritat von Mackie Messer)
Covers:
Tom Waits [as What Keeps Mankind Alive?]
Frankie Armstrong & Dave Van Ronk [as What Keeps Mankind Alive?]
Pet Shop Boys [idem]
William Burroughs [idem]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
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Arnold Rypens
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