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I was just following the trail on YouTube as I sit in my office, and was reminded of this gem:
Please post a *popular song, performed between 1955 and 1975, that you think might make our day better for hearing.
*By "popular", I mean not just digging up the most obscure thing you can think of. This isn't meant to be a competition as to who is the most hard-core music fan. But if you think the song has genuine merits we could all stand to benefit from, then go for it.
This'll always make your day better....
Sorry, wrong link
Small Faces, 'Tin Soldier'
Who the fark is Mason Williams? Obscurocompetitorextraordiarealert! 😆
Who the fark is Mason Williams?
A one hit wonder, but did rather well with it.
History
Originally named "Classical Gasoline", the tune was envisioned to be "fuel" for the classical guitar repertoire. The title was later inadvertently shortened by a music copyist.[3]Williams was the head writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour at the time of the piece's release and premiered the composition on the show. Williams performed it several times over several episodes.
After the piece had reached the Top Ten, Williams asked an experimental filmmaker named Dan McLaughlin to adjust a student video montage that he had created of classical art works using Beethoven's 5th Symphony and edit it in time to "Classical Gas", using the visual effect now known as kinestasis. The work, 3000 Years of Art, premiered in 1968 on an episode of the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour. The song peaked at number 2 for two weeks in August that year[4], behind "Hello, I Love You" by The Doors. On the US Easy Listening chart, it went to number one for three weeks.[5]
It is sometimes erroneously thought that "Classical Gas" was performed, or even composed, by Eric Clapton. This may be because Clapton was musical director of, and played much of the guitar music for, the feature film The Story of Us in which Williams' own solo-guitar re-recording of it, from his 1970 album Handmade, appeared. [6][7]
Williams re-recorded "Classical Gas" as a solo guitar piece on his 1970 album Handmade. This version was re-released by Sony in 2003, after being featured in the film Cheaper by the Dozen, which starred Williams's Smothers Brothers protégé,[8] actor/comedian/musician Steve Martin.
Awards and honors
In 1969, the piece won three Grammy Awards: Best Instrumental Composition, Best Contemporary-Pop Performance, Instrumental, and Best Instrumental Arrangement.[3]
In 1998, Broadcast Music Incorporated (BMI) awarded Williams a special Citation of Achievement. The piece has logged over five million broadcast performances to become BMI's all-time number-one instrumental composition for radio air play.
Popular enough for you?
E Street Band in their pomp.
This has just come on the shop playlist. Always makes me smile.
History
The who? The [i]Grammys??[/i]. So a US artist who bothered the US charts once. I'm sure that's exactly what SaxonRider was after.
(hey, everyone has a go at me, so it's my turn!)
Let the kitchen dancing commence.
Popular you say.
Where do I start? Not easy at all so will come back to this.
Dez if its good enough for The Simpsons its good enough for here! Call yourself a muso 🙂
Edit
And as soon as I posted, I see Cinnamon_Girl was just here...Coincidence?!
This alright!
When Rodney was a rocker ..these boys knew how to party ..
Live version of my favourite single
And as soon as I posted, I see Cinnamon_Girl was just here…Coincidence?!
@panzerjager oh, that's odd. Glad you've mentioned NY though cos the man's a legend!
This song is ****ing awesome
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ekb_2NT_xFI
But, then again, so is this...
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qg8kH4dlL2E
If that doesn’t improve yer day then yer a miserable ****.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4TUTaMd61Kk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwcEFnwbVuo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CXaqEY3gPc
History
The who? The Grammys??. So a US artist who bothered the US charts once. I’m sure that’s exactly what SaxonRider was after.
It’s not an obscure American hit, it used to get played a lot on British radio, and I’ve heard it played fairly recently.
In 1998, BMI, the performance rights organization that tracks air play performances on radio and television, presented Williams with a Special Citation of Achievement in recognition of the great national and international popularity of "Classical Gas". By 2008, the song logged over six million broadcast performances, to become the all-time number-one instrumental composition for air play in BMI's repertoire.[13]
not exactly insignificant.
From 1975, Tim Buckley’s cover of ‘Dolphins’...
From 1962, Skeeter Davis ‘The End Of The World’
And from 1957, the first song I recall hearing on the radio. I was three...
Meant to post this yesterday - great timing as this was new to me on R6 yesterday. Didn't know it existed as the sample to Ice Cube, both of which I now think are great.