{"id":512,"date":"2008-04-08T13:58:04","date_gmt":"2008-04-08T17:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/?p=512"},"modified":"2008-04-08T13:58:04","modified_gmt":"2008-04-08T17:58:04","slug":"bobby-darin-mack-the-knife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/2008\/bobby-darin-mack-the-knife\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Darin &#8212; Mack the Knife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/darinbobbymacktheknife.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-513\" title=\"Bobby Darin -- Mack the Knife\" src=\"http:\/\/imheavyduty.heavydutyincorporated.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/darinbobbymacktheknife.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"445\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are some great Bobby Darin classics on this disc from 1997 but the recording quality is lame. It sounds live, and maybe even bootlegged. I didn&#8217;t buy this album. When I was working at The Motley Fool a year or so after the dotcom bust I wandered up to one of the then-empty floors. I saw this CD sitting on a long-abandoned desk. I decided to relocate it to my desk on the one floor of our office building that held the lay-off survivors. After the first listen I could see why it was left behind. It still sounds as bad as I remember. The Fool on the other hand has only gotten &#8220;<a title=\"Daft Punk\" href=\"http:\/\/www.imheavyduty.com\/2008\/01\/08\/daft-punk-robot-rock\/\" target=\"_self\">harder, better, faster, stronger<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The title track, &#8220;Mack the Knife,&#8221; has an interesting story behind it. The Delancey Place newsletter recently emailed an <a title=\"Mack the Knife\" href=\"http:\/\/www.delanceyplace.com\/readarchives.php?letter_id=753&amp;lettertype=&amp;pageaction=browse\" target=\"_self\">excerpt from <em>The Rest is Noise<\/em><\/a> by Alex Ross. It discussed how strange and unlikely it is that this song, essentially a psychotic murder ballad, eventually became a pop standard sung by Darin, Sinatra and others.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bobby_Darin\" target=\"_blank\">More about Bobby Darin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are some great Bobby Darin classics on this disc from 1997 but the recording quality is lame. It sounds live, and maybe even bootlegged. I didn&#8217;t buy this album. When I was working at The Motley Fool a year or so after the dotcom bust I wandered up to one of the then-empty floors. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[466,452,453],"tags":[576,590,604,46,936],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d","category-music","category-record-collection","tag-big-band","tag-bobby-darin","tag-cd","tag-music","tag-rock-and-roll"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tracysigler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}