me the way to the next little girl", but, on the 1967 Live at the Matrix recording, he sang the original unaltered "next pretty boy". For the Doors' recording, Ray Manzarek also contributed Marxophone along with organ and keyboard bass. Personnel Per sources: Jim Morrison – lead vocals Robby Krieger – guitar, backing vocals Ray Manzarek – organ, keyboard bass, marxophone, backing vocals John Densmore – drums, backing vocals Paul A. Rothchild – backing vocals David Bowie version Bowie, a Brecht fan, incorporated the song into Isolar II, his 1978 World Tour. He cut a version at Tony Visconti’s studio after the European leg of the tour, and in 1980 it was issued as a single to hasten the end of Bowie’s contract with RCA. With unconventional key changes, the track "seemed calculated to disrupt any radio programme on which it was lucky enough to get played". Nevertheless, backed with a stripped-down acoustic version of "Space Oddity" recorded in December 1979, the single reached No. 23 in the UK. Although Bowie also changed the "pretty boy" line like Morrison, he sang Weill's original melody. Bowie would appear in a BBC version of Brecht's Baal, and release an EP of songs from the play. He performed "Alabama Song" again on his 1990 Sound+Vision Tour and 2002 Heathen tours. A concert performance recorded in spring 1978 during the Isolar II Tour was released as a bonus track on the Rykodisc reissue of Bowie's live album Stage in 1991 and on the 2005 reissue of that album. Other releases It was released as the B-side of the Japanese single "Crystal Japan" in February 1980. The German release of the single "Ashes to Ashes" in August 1980 had "Alabama Song" as the B-side. In 1992 it was released as a bonus track on the Rykodisc reissue of Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps). It appeared on the compilation The Singles Collection in 1993 and on The Best of David Bowie 1980/1987 in 2005. It was included on Re:Call 3, part of the A New Career in a New Town (1977–1982) boxed set, in 2017. Release by The Chad Mitchell Trio on their Slightly Irreverent album. References in popular culture The Watergate Hotel lobby whisky bar is named after this song. The political commenter Billmon named his blog Whiskey Bar quoting the song. When he closed the comments, his followers created another blog named Moon of