Song: Alabama Song

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Music written by

Lyrics written by

Language

English

Comments

From the musical "Mahagonny Songspiel", which was a kind of try-out for the longer "Aufstieg und Fall der Stadt Mahagonny" in 1930. Sung by the characters "Jessie" and "Bessie", according to the "The Originals" by Arnold Rypens.

Originals

First performance

Alabama Song by Lotte Lenya & Irene Eden (July 18, 1927)

First recording

Alabama Song by Marek Weber und sein Orchester (March 1928)

Adaptation tree

Alabama Song written by Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht - English
- Alabamasangen written by Lars Lilholt - Danish
- Alabama-Song - German

Versions

Alabama Song written by Kurt Weill, Bertolt Brecht - English

	Title	Performer	Release date
1	Alabama Song	Lotte Lenya & Irene Eden	July 18, 1927 (performance date)
2	Alabama Song	Marek Weber und sein Orchester	1928
3	Alabama Song	Lotte Lenja und "The Three Admirals" und Theo Mackeben und sein Jazz-Orchester	1930
4	Alabama Song	Will Holt	1960
5	Alabama Song	The Mitchell Trio	1964
6	Alabama Song	Dave Van Ronk	December 1966
7	Alabama Song (Whisky Bar)	The Doors	January 4, 1967
8	Alabama Song	David Bowie	February 1980
9	Alabama Song	Dalida	1980
10	Alabama Song	Ralph Schuckett with Richard Butler and Bob Dorough, Ellen Shipley and John Petersen	1985
11	Alabama Song	Frankie Armstrong, Dave Van Ronk	1989
12	Alabama Song	The Young Gods	April 1991
13	Alabama Song	Long Tall Texans	1991
14	Alabama Song	Marianne Faithfull	September 1996
15	Alabama Song	David Johansen	1997
16	Alabama Song	eX-Girl	May 9, 2000
17	Alabama Song	Norbert Detaeye	2001
18	Alabama Song	Lesley Garrett	2001
19	Alabama Song	Dee Dee Bridgewater	2002
20	Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)	Mars Arizona	2002
21	Alabama Song	Bruce Lash	November 30, 2004
22	Alabama Song	The Bobs	2005
23	Alabama Song	Cluster	November 23, 2006
24	The Alabama Song	Johnny Logan	September 19, 2008
25	Alabama Song (Whiskey Bar)	Erika Lloyd & Cameron Mizell	2009
26	Alabama Song/Whiskey Bar	Anthony Vandal	2010

Alabamasangen written by Lars Lilholt - Danish

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
1		Alabamasangen	Lars Lilholt Band	November 24, 2008

Alabama-Song - German

		Title	Performer	Release date	Info
1		Alabama-Song	Ute Lemper	1988

Forum topics

	Topic	Board	Started by	Replies	Last message
1	Guidelines on traditionals	Feedback	Filip	19	2006-12-07 15:12:39 GMT by Quentin
2	Alabama Song(Lotte Lenya & Irene Eden) covered by Bruce Lash	Add songs	Patrick	2	2008-02-20 20:37:10 GMT by Patrick
3	Alabama Song cover by Milva	Add songs	bacon	0	2008-11-22 17:43:36 GMT by bacon
4	Alabama Song cover by Georgia Brown	Add songs	jodeen	0	2010-12-27 09:38:33 GMT by jodeen
5	Medium: The Rocky Horror Show (Bastien)	Report Errors	baggish	2	2011-12-03 20:05:42 GMT by Bastien