Misuk, the only way Brecht’s poetry is tolerable*.
* but The Threepenny Opera can be very fine
(Misuk: Solidaritätslied)
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Walter Benjamin had a weak spot for him and never even heard the lines set to music … as far as I know. @anon61221983?
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I don’t know… The play came out in Berlin in 28, so they all would have still been in Germany, so it’s possible he heard it… But they were certainly contemporaries and would have been more than aware of each other’s work…
Not sure that’s helpful! 
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VERY helpful 
… and interesting. I must fight the urge to switch up my reading this afternoon though.
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Dunno, Eisler’s setting of Solidarität I don’t much care for, but some of his collaborations with Brecht in the Hollywood Songbook are great. Eisler was one helluva composer.
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IRS REM best REM
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Gerry Rafferty- Get it Right Next Time
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Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee - People Get Ready
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I could listen to that recording all year.
It reminds me of Fleetwood Mac.
No posts in 72 hours? This will not stand.
Sham 69 : If the Kids Are United
Atari Teenage Riot : Kids Are United
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wonderful mutants and happy things
(Marian Call: Space Weird Thing)
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this one has been rattling round my brain of late… found the original just now.
So Jorge Ben with his original version
Tama Trio which I have from the Soul Jazz Bossa Nova music compilation.
And of course Sergio Mendes…
And finally one of my favorite pacific northwest bands, Pink Martini with Saori Yuki
Mas Que Nada
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These are all awesomely new to me!! The wonderful 500. 
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How have you not heard that before? At the very least the Sergio Mendes version?
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I’m embarrassed to confess that I have not. 
It does sound familiar, but I don’t know it. The Sergo Mendes version is gloriously pop, and I’m loving it. 
