He do the song about the knife

[Harrison Hill]

"He do the song about the sweet loving woman
He do the song about the knife
He do the walk, he do the walk of life".

And "The talking blues".

Which songs are these?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9_VOy7VipQ

[Mack A. Damia]

Johnny Hallyday, "I Got a Woman".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4LfG_5Dp64

Hallyday has some kind of connection to knives:

http://www.art-et-couteaux.com/johnny-hallyday-knife-thiers-11cm,us,4,THI-11-JH.cfm

Can't quite figure it out, except maybe he is well-known (in France)
for singing "Mack the Knife", but I cannot find a reference for it.
MTK was originally a French song.

[Mack A. Damia]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:48:49 -0800, Mack A. Damia
<drstee...@yahoo.com> wrote:


>Can't quite figure it out, except maybe he is well-known (in France)
>for singing "Mack the Knife", but I cannot find a reference for it.
>MTK was originally a French song.

Correction: Originally a German song from "The Threepenny Opera"
(1928), but the song was translated into French as "La complainte de
Mackie" by André Mauprey and Ninon Steinhoff and popularized by
Catherine Sauvage (1930s). It is very popular in France.

If you Google Hallyday and his lyrics, you find that "knife" or
"knives" are mentioned frequently.

[Peter Duncanson [BrE]]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:48:49 -0800, Mack A. Damia
<drstee...@yahoo.com> wrote:

It seems to have been translated into French from the German original,
also into English from the German:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack_the_Knife


--
Peter Duncanson, UK
(in alt.usage.english)

[Hen Hanna]

On Tuesday, February 28, 2017 at 12:28:16 PM UTC-8, Harrison Hill wrote:
> "He do the song about the sweet loving woman

Thanks for the interesting question!


[VIDEO] My Sweet Lovin' Woman - Robert Nighthawk (1948) - YouTube

a blues hit.


--- HH (the real HH)

[Mack A. Damia]

You are ignoring that it is a song about "Johnny". Look at the Dire
Straights lyrics.

http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/direstraits/walkoflife.html

He do the song about the sweet loving woman

He do the song about the knife
He do the walk, he do the walk of life

Here comes Johnny and he'll tell you the story
Hand me down my walking shoes
Here comes Johnny with the power and glory
Backbeat the talkin' blues
He got the action, he got the motion
Yeah the boy can play
Dedication devotion
Turning all the night time into the day

[Mack A. Damia]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:28:11 -0800 (PST), Harrison Hill
<harrison...@gmail.com> wrote:

>"He do the song about the sweet loving woman
>He do the song about the knife
>He do the walk, he do the walk of life".
>
>And "The talking blues".
>
>Which songs are these?

"Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies
Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say"
************
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_T6UTGaBtU

[Hans Aberg]

Here are some variation of the Kurt Weill composition:

Hildegard Knef (with English and German subtitles)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVtpqO3WqvQ

Lotte Lenya
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPG9GcykPIY

[Peter T. Daniels]

The familiar Bobby Darrin version is from the Marc Blitzstein production in
the mid-50s, which found favor because he was a fellow-traveler (if not a
card-carrying Communist) himself -- and starred a much older Lotte Lenya -- but
the translation is too much geared to the American audience of the time and not
a good reflection of the Brecht.

Years later, there was a new production with Raul Julia, and the translation was
found to be more suitable.

[Mack A. Damia]

On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 13:41:33 -0800 (PST), Hen Hanna
<henh...@gmail.com> wrote:

He do the song about the knife
He do the walk, he do the walk of life".

And "The talking blues".

Also, "talking blues" was Hallyday's well-known style.

"Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies
Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say

Here comes Johnny singing I Gotta Woman"

It is Johnny Hallyday, no doubt about it.

[grabber]

I always thought it was about a busker, "down in the tunnels trying to
make it pay". And was Hallyday an instumentalist? ("Hey yeah, the boy
can play").

[Mack A. Damia]

I don't know if that is important.

I cannot connect all of the dots because Hallyday was a French singer,
but the clues seem to be compelling:

"Be-Bop-A-Lula"- recorded by Johnny Hallyday.
"I Gotta Woman" - one of Hallyday's signature songs.
"Here comes Johnny singing" - speaks for itself.
talking blues - was Johnny's style.
Knife - knives - lots of references to knives in his songs.

"Down in the tunnels" - The musicians who perform in the tunnels of
the Paris Metro belong to a special category; because of limited
space, they must audition and are selected for assignment to
particular locations.

Can't come up with anymore evidence at the moment, but it seems fairly
obvious to me.

[Harrison Hill]

That cannot be right surely :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGI4PgAHxtg

[Mack A. Damia]

On Wed, 1 Mar 2017 14:49:24 -0800 (PST), Harrison Hill

<harrison...@gmail.com> wrote:

>On Tuesday, 28 February 2017 22:26:56 UTC, Mack A. Damia wrote:
>> On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:28:11 -0800 (PST), Harrison Hill
>> <harrison...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> >"He do the song about the sweet loving woman
>> >He do the song about the knife
>> >He do the walk, he do the walk of life".
>> >
>> >And "The talking blues".
>> >
>> >Which songs are these?
>>
>>
>> "Here comes Johnny singing oldies, goldies
>> Be-Bop-A-Lula, Baby What I Say"
>> ************
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_T6UTGaBtU
>
>That cannot be right surely :)
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LGI4PgAHxtg

Egg Shirley, that was another thing about Johnny. He sang and
re-recorded a lot of the oldies.

[darr...@aol.com]

On Tuesday, February 28, 2017 at 5:33:05 PM UTC-5, Peter T. Daniels wrote:
> On Tuesday, February 28, 2017 at 4:27:28 PM UTC-5, PeterWD wrote:
> > On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:48:49 -0800, Mack A. Damia
> > <drstee...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >
> > >On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:28:11 -0800 (PST), Harrison Hill
> > ><harrison...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >>"He do the song about the sweet loving woman
> > >>He do the song about the knife
> > >>He do the walk, he do the walk of life".
> > >>
> > >>And "The talking blues".
> > >>
> > >>Which songs are these?
> > >>
> > >>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9_VOy7VipQ
> > >
> > >Johnny Hallyday, "I Got a Woman".
> > >
> > >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4LfG_5Dp64
> > >
> > >Hallyday has some kind of connection to knives:
> > >
> > >http://www.art-et-couteaux.com/johnny-hallyday-knife-thiers-11cm,us,4,THI-11-JH.cfm
> > >
> > >Can't quite figure it out, except maybe he is well-known (in France)
> > >for singing "Mack the Knife", but I cannot find a reference for it.
> > >MTK was originally a French song.
> > >
> > It seems to have been translated into French from the German original,
> > also into English from the German:
> > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack_the_Knife

You're thinking of "Beyond The Sea," his other hit. That was based on a French song. "Darin" was a rarity - the first Crooner to not only Rock, but pen most of his songs as well.

> The familiar Bobby Darrin version is from the Marc Blitzstein production in
> the mid-50s,

Yutz face, his stage name was spelled as "Darin," not "Darrin." The most common way of spelling that name is "Darren." In my case, dear old mom was a huge fan of the show "Bewitched," and chose the same atypical spelling. Yes, I was named after the first "Darrin" (Dick York), not to be confused with the second "Darrin" (Dick Sargent). So which Dick did you prefer?eheee -D, "Currently, one million Jews live in NYC, in the 1950s, the community reached two million. Those numbers make NY the largest Jewish urban community in history. But Jewish New York is not only enormous, it is also enormously complex. The substantial size of New York's Jewish society is personally significant to every Jewish person who lives in the city. The presence of so many Jewish people allows the populace to live free from the self-consciousness that often inhibits Jews in other cities" - THE PEOPLE OF JEWISH NEW YORK, excerpt from JEWISH NY: NOTABLE NEIGHBORHOODS & MEMORABLE MOMENTS BY IRA WOLFMAN

[RH Draney]

On 4/6/2020 6:36 PM, darr...@aol.com wrote:
>> On Tuesday, February 28, 2017 at 4:27:28 PM UTC-5, PeterWD wrote:
>>> On Tue, 28 Feb 2017 12:48:49 -0800, Mack A. Damia
>>> <drstee...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Can't quite figure it out, except maybe he is well-known (in France)
>>>> for singing "Mack the Knife", but I cannot find a reference for it.
>>>> MTK was originally a French song.
>>>>
>>> It seems to have been translated into French from the German original,
>>> also into English from the German:
>>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mack_the_Knife
>
> You're thinking of "Beyond The Sea," his other hit. That was based on a French song. "Darin" was a rarity - the first Crooner to not only Rock, but pen most of his songs as well.

He had other hits as well...to the best of my knowledge "Splish Splash"
was originally in English, as were his first hit "Dream Lover" and the
later "Simple Song of Freedom", both of which he wrote
himself...("Splish Splash" was co-written by Darin and Murray "the K"
Kaufman)....r

[Spains Harden]

That video link no longer works, so here's another. Love the nose-to-nose
anger.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd9TlGDZGkI>

[darr...@aol.com]

Indeed! Aka "The 5th Beatle." Peter and Mack just plotzed, not knowing that he was Jewish. eh Have you given a listen to The Plasmatics cover of Dream Lover?eh Yes, Wendy O. Williams fame, or infamy. eh -D, "The beautiful idea of religion, that the meek shall inherit the earth, is naivete at its highest. The strong inherit the earth; the meek inherit shit!" eh - GENE SIMMONS (b. Chaim Witz, Haifa Istael)