“Mack the Knife” was composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht in 1928 for The Threepenny Opera, where it was introduced as “Die Moritat von Mackie Messer.” The song entered popular music through early German stage recordings and became widely known in English after Louis Armstrong’s 1956 recording, followed by Bobby Darin’s 1959 version which became a major hit, with later notable interpretations by Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, and Robbie Williams. If you enjoyed this, please shar

58K views · 3.8K reactions | Bobby Darin and "Mack the Knife" ("Die Moritat von Mackie Messer") (Music by Kurt Weill, Original German Lyrics by Bert Brecht, English Lyrics by Marc Blitzstein) | An Appreciation of Joey Heatherton and more | Facebook