Alabama Song
English version of a song written by Bertolt Brecht / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the novel, see Alabama Song (novel); for the Allison Moorer album, see Alabama Song (album); for songs with similar titles, see Alabama (disambiguation)#Music.
The "Alabama Song"—also known as "Moon of Alabama", "Moon over Alabama", and "Whisky Bar"—is an English version of a song[clarification needed] written by Bertolt Brecht and translated from German by his close collaborator Elisabeth Hauptmann in 1925 and set to music by Kurt Weill for the 1927 play Little Mahagonny. It was reused for the 1930 opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny and has been recorded by the Doors and David Bowie.
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Alabama Song | |
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song by Kurt Weill | |
Text | by Bertolt Brecht translated by Elisabeth Hauptmann |
Language | English, trans. from German |
Composed | 1927 (1927) |
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