THE 1000 BEST SONGS IN THE WORLD EVER.
460-The Doors-Alabama Song(Whiskey Bar.)
1967-Never released as a single in the UK.
Best Bit-At 0.55.It seems like The Doors like their Whiskey like they like their women….hopefully at least sixteen years old.
This is a cover version of a German Opera song written in 1925 by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht.It first appeared in the 1927 play ‘Little Mahagonny’ and next in the 1930 controversial German Operetta ‘The Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahogany.’The original version from ‘Little Mahagonny’ was sung by Lotte Lenya the wife of Kurt Weill.
In this cover version by The Doors the verse beginning ‘Show me the way to the next little Dollar’ is omitted and the line ‘Show us the way to the next pretty boy’ is changed to ‘Show me the way to the next little girl.’
In 1980 a version by David Bowie charted in the UK at Number 23.
‘Oh moon of Alabama it’s time to say auf Wiedersehen.
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