tracks

Prologue (Spoken)
Overture
The Ballad Of Mack The Knife
Morning Anthem
Instead-Of-Song
Army Song
Wedding Song
Love Song
Ballad Of Dependency
The World Is Mean
Melodrama And Polly's Song
Pirate Jenny
Tango-Ballad
Ballad Of The Easy Life
Barbara Song
Jealousy Duet
How To Survive
Useless Song
Solomon Song
Call From The Grave
Death Message
Finale: The Mounted Messenger
The Ballad Of Mack The Knife

notes

Original Cast Album Recorded April, 1954.
Originally released as <a href="http://www.discogs.com/release/2031371">MGM Album E/SE 3121</a>, July 1954.

Bonus track: Live performance from unidentified source. Unreleased and found in Lotte Lenya's personal archive. (Used courtesy of the Weill-Lenya Research Center.)

credits

Adapted By [English Adaptation Of Book And Lyrics] – Marc Blitzstein
Art Direction [Reissue Art Direction] – Penny Bennett
Banjo, Guitar – Ralph Colicchio
Clarinet – Charles Russo, Herbert Tishman
Composed By – Kurt Weill
Conductor, Piano – Samuel Matlowsky
Design [Reissue Design] – Ink-a-Dinka Inc.
Directed By [Musical Director] – Samuel Matlowsky
Executive Producer – Chris Roberts
Libretto By – Bertolt Brecht
Liner Notes – David Farneth
Mastered By – Greg Calbi
Photography [Cover Photo] – Gene Cook
Photography [Photos Courtesy Of] – Weill-Lenya Research Center
Piano – Marc Blitzstein (tracks: 23)
Producer [Production Staged By] – Carmen Capalbo
Reissue Producer – Brian Drutman
Timpani, Percussion – Stan Koor
Trombone – Elliot Philips
Trumpet – Bernard Ross, Harry Jenkins
Vocals [Additional Ensemble] – Bernard Bogin (tracks: 6 to 7), Chuck Smith (4), Gerrianne Raphael, John Astin (2) (tracks: 6 to 7), Joseph Beruh (tracks: 6 to 7), Marion Selee, Paul Dooley (tracks: 6 to 7), William Duel (tracks: 22)
Vocals [Jenny] – Lotte Lenya (tracks: 12 to 13, 19, 23)
Vocals [Lucy Brown] – Beatrice Arthur (tracks: 15 to 16)
Vocals [Macheath (Mack The Knife)] – Scott Merrill (tracks: 6, 8, 11, 13 to 14, 17, 20 to 21)
Vocals [Mr. J.j. Peachum] – Martin Wolfson (tracks: 4 to 5, 10, 18)
Vocals [Mrs. Peachum] – Charlotte Rae (tracks: 5, 9 to 10, 17)
Vocals [Polly Peachum] – Jo Sullivan (2) (tracks: 8, 10 to 11, 16)
Vocals [The Streetsinger] – Gerald Price (tracks: 1, 3)
Vocals [Tiger Brown] – George Tyne (tracks: 6)

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