Mack the Knife : Rolling Stone

Written by: Marc Blitzstein, Bertolt Brecht, Kurt Weill
Produced by: Ahmet Ertegun
Released: March '59 on Atco
Charts: 26 weeks
Top spot: No. 1

Darin began in the 1950s with the rock & roll bathtub classic "Splish Splash." But he changed his image with his hepcat version of a morbid tale from Weill's Threepenny Opera. Darin came on as a finger-snapping sophisticate at home in the cocktail lounge, scatting over a jazzy groove. He sounded so suave it was easy to forget he was singing about a bloodthirsty Berlin gangster.

Appears on: That's All (Atlantic)

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