The Threepenny Opera: The Ballad of Mack the Knife (1954 New York Cast)

Name: The Threepenny Opera: The Ballad of Mack the Knife
Duration: 3 min 20 s

Appears on releases

#	Title	Length	Track artist	Release title	Release artist	Release group type	Country/Date	Label	Catalog#
Official
1.2	The Threepenny Opera: The Ballad of Mack the Knife	?:??	Kurt Weill	From Green‐Up Time to September Song With Lotte Lenya and Others	Kurt Weill	Album + Compilation	US1978	Book-of-the-Month Records	40-5254
1.3	The Threepenny Opera: The Ballad of Mack the Knife	3:19	Kurt Weill	The Threepenny Opera (1954 off-Broadway cast)	Kurt Weill	Album + Soundtrack	GB1989	TER (as in logo, acronym of That’s Entertainment Records)	CDTER 1101
1.12	The Ballad of Mack the Knife (from “The Threepenny Opera”)	3:21	Gerald Price	The Best of Broadway: The Early ’50s	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US1996	Time–Life Music	R855-2
1.3	The Threepenny Opera: The Ballad of Mack the Knife	3:20	Kurt Weill	The Threepenny Opera (1954 New York Cast)	Kurt Weill	Album + Soundtrack	US2000-08-29	Decca Broadway	012 159 463-2
2.15	The Threepenny Opera: Ballad of Mack the Knife	3:21	Gerald Price	Broadway: The American Musical	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	US2004-10-19	Legacy (reissue division of Sony Music Entertainment)	CK 92903, CK 92904, CK 92905, CK 92906, CK 92907
1.14	Mack the Knife	3:20	Gerald Price	More Mack the Knife	Various Artists	Album + Compilation	DE-	Classic Hits	01610-2

recorded in:	New York, New York, United States (in 1954)

vocals:	Gerald Price (in 1954)
conductor:	Samuel Matlovsky (in 1954)

recording of:	The Threepenny Opera: The Ballad of Mack the Knife (in 1954)

lyricist and librettist:	Bertolt Brecht
composer:	Kurt Weill (composer)
translator:	Marc Blitzstein (American composer)

later versions:	Mack the Knife: Mack the Knife (1989 movie soundtrack version) Mack the Knife: Mack the Knife (reprise)
part of:	The Threepenny Opera (Marc Blitzstein translation) (order: 3)