UNDERAPPRECIATED MUSIC: A KURT WEILL CABARET

One of my favorite record albums over the years (yes, you young whippersnapper, there used to be record albums!) is the cast recording of 1963's A Kurt Weill Cabaret with Will Holt and Martha Schlamme.  Holt was a folk singer in the 1950, best known for "Sinner Man" and "Lemon Tree," for which he wrote the English lyrics.  He transitioned to musical theater in the Sixties, writing, co-writing, and performing in various musicals during the last four decades of the Twentieth century.  Martha Schlamme was an Austrian-born singer and actress who made her debut as a teenager in a British internment camp (her family had escaped to England where they were interned as "enemy aliens") in a German language production of As You Like It.  At age 25 she emigrated to the
United States and began a long career singing folk and popular songs in multiple languages.  among her roles as a stage actress was that of Golde in Fiddler on the Roof on Broadway.

Holt and Schlamme captured Weill's haunting music perfectly on this record.

Threepenny Opera:

• The Ballad of the Easy Life (instrumental only)
• The Barbara Song
• Mack the Knife
• Tango Ballade
• Pirate Jenny
• Survival Song (also sung in the second act before "Lost in the Stars")

Le Roi d'Aquataine:

• Le Roi d'Aquataine

Der Silbersee:

• Caesar's Death

Lady in the Dark:

• The Saga of Jenny

Knickerbocker Holiday:

• September Song

Happy End:

• Mandalay Song
• Surabaya Johnny
• Bilbao Song

Lost in the Stars:

• Lost in the Stars

Enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNkkXfgsscE&list=OLAK5uy_lthzZkTj4ByUhUzn69PcwaHPifQpfkvRk