Artist: Roma Bahn, Erich Ponto & Rosa Valetti
Author: Berthold Brecht/Kurt Weill
Year: 1928
From Urauffuhrung Dreigroschenoper, at the end of the First Akt. Erich Ponto was also part of the first recording ('30).
Covers:
Fritz Rasp, Valeska Gert & Lotte Lenya [in the first Dreigroschenoper film]
Jo Sullivan, Martin Wolfson & Charlotte Rae [as The World Is Mean]
Gert Fröbe & Hilde Hildebrand [in second German film version]
Richard Harris, Julie Walters, Rachel Robertson & Roger Daltrey [as The World Is Mean in film Mack The Knife]
Cécile McLorin Salvant [as The World Is Mean]
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)