August 30, 1959 –
Bobby Darin’s jazzy interpretation of Mack The Knife began its 26-week stay on the pop-singles charts.
The original German version of this song is called Theme from The Threepenny Opera, or Moritat, which is the German word for Murder Ballad. The lyrics have been translated in various ways on different versions, but the most popular translation was by the lyricist Marc Blitzstein for the 1954 off-Broadway revival of The Threepenny Opera, which ran until 1961 and played in Greenwich Village, New York.
The Haus of Dcaligari 