"Miriling" wrote in message
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Beatrice Marinello: 39 (born on 14 May 1964)

May 14th is the birthdate of a select few who are known to be some of the
greatest people ever born. I can't say why but God picks May 14th for the
birth of his best people.

StanB

On Sun, 20 Jul 2003 10:45:04 -0400, "StanB"
wrote:


"Miriling" wrote in message
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Beatrice Marinello: 39 (born on 14 May 1964)

May 14th is the birthdate of a select few who are known to be some of the
greatest people ever born. I can't say why but God picks May 14th for the
birth of his best people.

StanB

I see. Now we know the birth date of StanB.

On 20 Jul 2003 16:35:02 GMT, (Miriling) wrote:

.. At one time I used to know the lyrics (in
German) to his hit song Mack the Knife:

Und der Haifisch, der hat Zaehne,
und die traegt er im Gesicht, etc.

George Mirijanian

Thats because it wasn't "his" song, per se. It's original language is
German, orginally written by Kurt Weill for his production "The
Threepenny Opera"...based on german musical tradition of composing
ballads about legendary criminals, typically enjoyed by the lower
classes around the bars or other social gatherings.

Regards,
Don Shennum

Subject: Average age of USCF EB member = 56

On 20 July 2003 Don Shennum replied in
Message-id:

On 20 Jul 2003 16:35:02 GMT, (Miriling) wrote:

. At one time I used to know the lyrics (in
German) to his hit song Mack the Knife:

Und der Haifisch, der hat Zaehne,
und die traegt er im Gesicht, etc.

George Mirijanian

Thats because it wasn't "his" song, per se. It's original language is
German, orginally written by Kurt Weill for his production "The
Threepenny Opera"...based on german musical tradition of composing
ballads about legendary criminals, typically enjoyed by the lower
classes around the bars or other social gatherings.

Regards,
Don Shennum


I already knew that Mack the Knife wasn't "his" song, but Darin popularized
the song in the United States in 1959, when it became No. 1 on the Pop Charts
for nine weeks. It won a Grammy as Record of the Year in 1959.
Kurt Weill did not write the song; he wrote the music. Berthold Brecht wrote
the words. I don't know who translated the song from German into English for
Darin's rendition. Whatever the case, it was Darin's first hit song.

George Mirijanian