David Bowie - Alabama Song Lyrics

I must say. David Bowie is a icon.

I wish he hadn’t done his teeth!

All versions are great... Its like music from aliens👌👍😂

Боуиииии Суперррр

The doors es mejor

What a lovely man, great cover

3:22 👅

He was having way too much fun... and it’s so awesome.

This happens when celeb drinks too much whiskey! He believes he can sing!

This songs is my favourite song performed by The Doors which is my favourite band. However, Bowie’s performance of the song is about as brilliant as it gets

Super))))))))))))

Omfg I just died life is complete omg I love you David Darling

what happened to her?

On the 2.1 millions of views there is maybe 20.000 views of me 😂😂

I am always watching this video, love bowie voice

I love David Bowie but this is awful

Huh, no mention of the next little girl. I WONDER why...

Mai abbastanza rimpianto❤

Miss Mr.Bowie and his great sense of humour
71and holding December 7th 2018

Difficile voir impossible de dire lequel est le meilleur
Jim Morrison
David Bowie???

Bowie is not as genius as the other one, what was his name ? Ah... yes, Jim Rimbaud .

Damn he made it sound like a legit reggae song

Original: Brecht-Weill

I wonder what he had for breakfast in Berlin.

I love David Bowie so very much. I took to my bed for most of three days when he died. But this was Jim's song. Period. Let him have it.

Interesting take, very Bowie-esque...

Sounds like a Clash song.

Bowie halfway turned it into a ska song.

vanilla vodka

Holy shit that's weird.

Das ist ein toller Song über das Phänomen, dass man gemeinhin als Sucht bezeichnet und Bowie hat hier das Zeug dazu es vom tragischen ins Komische zu bringen.... ONLY GREAT!!!

I love David Bowie but he's no Jim Morrison

Music that kept the great Bowie alive💞💞💞💞

Nice try David but I'll stick with the doors

All Born Again Christians please leave just picturing Jim Morrison grabbing the little boy and girls ass would be the cats meow

More like he sang it at Brecht-fast.

No one but Bowie could do this Doors song justice. I just can't call this a "cover"! I know Morrison didn't write the original, but his band introduced it to this time in history... All I really hear is David! Love it ~ ~ ~

rest in peace dear Bowie. You are inspiration to the world.

Love & Miss You So Much Mr Bowie.

This video is so charming, honestly watching it brightens my day. I can't believe that he's in his late fifties here, he's so sexy and cute?!

kocham to

he sounds like that main guy from the labyrinth

meraviglia!!

Amazing!

What a legend david bowie

Kurt Weill, not Bertold Brecht. The lyrics were by Elizabeth Hauptmann.

Sooo Coool !

Gli artisti non riposano in pace. Continuano a vivere

The Doors version is so much better

Michael Anthony Why?

every morning...

what he says in the beginning?

"And when I was living in my apartment in Berlin, I would sing this at breakfast every morning!"

I would like to know English to understand everything Bowie says

David Bowie for ever!!!!!!!

Goodnight Sweetheart

Simon Cowell says the door is that wooden thing behind you.

Brecht probably would not have liked this performance.
But he could trust David Bowie select a role in the play "The Threepenny Opera".
Mrs. Peacham, Mack The Knife and even Jenny... :) Bowie perfectly to cope with any role.

His BBC Baal was brilliant.

The chorus sounds reggae Af

Sexy !!! And that voice...STARmAn - luv - felt like a Broadway show...as it should... dear David Bowie you ROCK as always.

do any bowie fans know if bowie got to see the doors while morrison was still alive???

Yes, he said in an interview once he saw them in 68 when the Doors played London.

Thanks for info. I always thought there was a direct influence. Iggy was influenced a lot by Morrison and was a confidant of Bowies... The stage craft and isolation theme was very Morrison like. Not to mention a much more nihilistic view of the phony u topic hippie view on culture. Morrison understood the virtues and the pitfalls of the western culture on a much deeper level then most of his peers. Bowie extended much of the thesis shaped in the la woman album of the decay of the culture into his own works for diamond dogs thru station to station. Like Morrison he used the nexus of la as the vantage point. Both had a cinematic large view skill at lyrically shaping that.

both also threw in alot of literary references in their lyrics and were fascinated with paganism.They had different styles but were of pretty similar mindsets, at least at one point. I could easily see Morrison write something like Oh you pretty things, except he would make it sound dark and foreboding, whilst Bowie made it sound ironically peppy and tounge in cheek-

agree bawoman. in re to cultural, historical & literary understanding of the west, when you talk bowie & j morrison, there were few if any in the popular music scene who could rival their breadth. dylan, j cash, j mitchell, h williams are ones of the few that come to mind. additionally, both could take their insights & visions of the culture around them & put it into powerful artistic currency. if anything both are underrated in those regards b/c of all the other stagecraft & celebrity hype that swirled around them. plus both were pushed as quasi sex symbols too. yet, if you get into the teeth of their work, there was very sharp insight into the pulse of the west's undercurrents both of the time & even on a broader more elemental scope. its why their best work is timeless. musically, bowie pushed more & was more varied. lyrically morrison used more of a symbolic, almost american blake form. bowie, burroughs. yet, thematically, your right, there was much of the same takes. both almost alien like on the outside, yet very perceptive of the inner workings of the cultural body. you can draw a direct line from la woman to station to station if one wants to understand the cultural nihilism of that era & an insight wh/ way it was going & could go. monster beauty & ice pick search for any heart in the beast... history will be kind to both imo, as morrison said, words can even outlast empires. & both carved worthy text onto the western cave wall that should endure & maybe predict such.

Does Bowie had some kind of obsession or worship with Germany?

Más o menos, sí.

@IgNaceus Y tal vez con el espacio también.

He spent time in Berlin in the late 1970-early'80's recovering from substance abuse and trying to find himself again. This song came from that period, and also may have come from his flirtation with Anthony Newely music that he had in the mid 1960's.

He probably loves the culture. He was also a huge fan of German Expressionist films and filmmakers that's for sure.

Rawr! Sexy Bowie is sexy! nom nom nom

here I thought the version by the doors was akward and strange of pace.
I still like the almost not a song feel of it.

Great version!

That face at 0:41 😂😂😂😂💀

the doors are nothing without the windows.

And both are nothing without hinges!!

The next little dollar?????

little dollar xD it's little girl

Guess that's why there are diff'rent strokes ..(for different folks) because I adore this version and put it head and shoulders over The Doors..

The Doors are better

The Doors version is so much better, this sucks

hört auf, er war großartig, einzigart

I love how this feels like it's from an opera. The insanity exuded is so great.

It is from something like an opera. It´s a very old song, by Bertold Brecht an collaborators. The Doors and David just made a cover. I learned ths a couple of days ago

In the play Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, it is sung by a group of prostitutes traveling to the newest boom town.

Sehr geil! love.

im 11 years old first time i watched david bowies version and thought it sucked but then i got into it now i cant stop lisnting to it lolz rip sir david bowie xxx

love this

RIP Sir David

this is the BEST.
He was so himself, and just didn't care what anyone thought. He did what he thought made sense - love that he sang Brecht.

Thanks David ... text of this message ....... wonderful musician who has meant so much in decades

David Bowie singing Kurt Weill. Bringing together some of the best musicians from both ends of the 20th Century <3

Now i love David Bowie. However, I do prefer the Doors version over this one :

j'adore cette version!!! Mais j'aime aussi beaucoup la version des Doors!!!

What a fantastic vocal range he has. His singing style seems economical so easy. He makes it look so easy. It's divine.
Ffar out brussel sprout.

+ThePaulv12 He was in full control. He most of the time did his vocals on first take in the studio.

A comedian friend of Bowies said to him
"is'nt it about time you got a real Job David"
He replied " I have a real Job"
IM A ROCK GOD !!!!!

Ricky Gervais

Yeah it was Ricky I saw it in their email correspondence

See you David!

RIP D.B. & B.B.

No thanks. The Doors' cover was a million times better.

What about the writer of the song, Elisabeth Hauptmann?

+Latte Cat I'm thankful we have both versions (tho Bowie's rendition is closer to the original)

@GreenGretel Both the original and the Doors' cover were better than Bowie's.

+Latte Cat EIther this version either speaks to you or it doesn't. This song speaks to something I almost can't place in me. It's crazy and nebulous and perverse and I fucking love it.

@ Latte Cat

No, she was NOT the writer of that song. BERTOLT BRECHT is the author of the poem, KURT WEILL composed the music to it.

(She "only" translated Bertolt Brecht`s poem from German into English language.)

Au revoir David!

David can now personally sing this gem to Jim and Ray. R I P.

And Kurt and Elizabeth and Berthold.

@corvus 13

Not "Berthold" but Bertolt (Brecht)

I miss his presence but I love how he says "every morning"

amazing.

R.I.P. my Heroe... :( <3

Cuánta perfección en un solo video. 😃

RIP hero - X

Brilliant!

quelle voix, quel délire !