Mack the Knife and Pedro Navaja: The Louis Armstrong and Ruben Blades Confluence

 First, the Inimitable Mr. Louis Armstrong, doing one of his signatures.

Now, the immensely talented Ruben Blades, doing the latin descendant of Mack the Knife, “Pedro Navaja”(Peter the Knife or Switchblade). Check out Oscar H on the piano!

Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times (1936)

 The one and only time the great Charlie Chaplin’s vagabond spoke was when he sung this song in “Modern Times” (1936), one of my all-time favorite movies. The lyrics are in gibberish!!