"Oh the shark, babe, has such teeth, dear. And it shows them, pearly white." Here's CrimeReads' story on how an 18th-century light opera about a womanizing highwayman begat the American pop standard "Mack the Knife," featuring Weimar Republic Berlin and a cruel, ruthless criminal along the way.

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18th-Century Satire, Communist Anthem, 1950s Pop Song: The Many Lives of Mack the Knife

On May 31, 1959 – four years after Senator McCarthy’s televised anti-communist hearings—the fresh-faced heartthrob Bobby Darin debuted his latest single on the Ed Sullivan show. The song—about a ru…

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