Live excerpt: Several hundred songs ago, I posted David Bowie’s version of this Kurt Weill/Bertolt Brecht classic. However, The Doors’ version of “Alabama Song” was the first I heard – and I first heard it on a Saturday Night Live … Continue reading
Live: Our final offering from David Bowie was recorded for David Bowie in Bertolt Brecht’s Baal in 1982. While one certainly can’t say the song is pleasant, the performance is outstanding and very close to the sound that, perhaps, one … Continue reading
Live in 2000 in Berlin: Our final two songs from Bowie are his versions of a pair of songs by German playwright Bertolt Brecht and composer Kurt Weill. They are best known for “Mac The Knife” from The Threepenny Opera. … Continue reading