Alabama Song - The Single
Songs (Time)
UK release
- Alabama Song (Brecht/Weill)
- Space Oddity (Bowie)
- Release Details
- Released by RCA in the UK, February 1980
- Catalogue number: BOW 5 (UK)
- Released in picture sleeve
- B-Side re-recording
Germany release
- Alabama Song (Brecht/Weill)
- Space Oddity (Bowie)
- Amsterdam (Brel)
- Release Details
- Released by RCA in Germany, July 1982
- Catalogue number: RCA PC 9853
- 12" Released in picture sleeve
- Alabama Song/Space Oddity
- Producer
- David Bowie, Tony Visconti (1979)
- Musicians
- David Bowie: vocals and guitar
- Adrian Belew: guitar
- Carlos Alomar: guitar
- Simon House: violin
- Sean Mayes: piano
- Roger Powell: keyboards
- George Murray: bass
- Dennis Davis: drums
- Amsterdam
- Producer
- David Bowie (1973)
- Musician
- David Bowie: vocals and guitar
Trivia
- Alabama Song, taken from Bertolt Brecht's Threepenny Opera
had been a staple of the 1978 tour. Although purists might call it
a mutilation, Bowie's Brecht was a brilliant, if unorthodox version
of the classic. It was admirably served by the re-recording of
Space Oddity on the B-side, which worked as a recognizable anchor for
the unusual single.
- Chart Performance:
| Country | Peak # | # of weeks |
| UK | 23 | 5 |
- The 1982 rerelease in Germany continued the line of rereleases
from that year.
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