This day in music - November 29, 1959: Bobby Darin wins a Grammy Award for Record of the Year for "Mac the Knife"
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Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht wrote "Mac the Knife" in 1928 for the German play The Threepenny Opera. "Mack" is Macheath, the title character, a criminal. Despite the bouncy melody, the song is actually about a murderer.
Bobby Darin decided to perform this song when he saw a production of the opera in Greenwich Village in 1958. He found a way to make it his own and started performing it in his nightclub act, where it become a popular number.
Beside winning a Grammy for the song, Darin was also named Best New Artist at the awards in 1959.
It really does seem like an awfully upbeat melody for such a dark topic.
Bobby Darin decided to perform this song when he saw a production of the opera in Greenwich Village in 1958. He found a way to make it his own and started performing it in his nightclub act, where it become a popular number.
Beside winning a Grammy for the song, Darin was also named Best New Artist at the awards in 1959.
It really does seem like an awfully upbeat melody for such a dark topic.
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