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Title: Is Granuaile's Dance CW's Classical Gas? Post by: Anderpaw on February 02, 2008, 04:30AM Some of you may remember"Classical Gas", an instrumental piece that was recorded in the February 1968 by Mason Williams. In August 1968 it reached the top 5 in the American charts and went on to sell over a million copies. After listening to it on the radio the other day, I popped in a cassette (yes, I said cassette) of CW I made in the my car and Granuaile's Dance came on. 2 totally different pieces of music obviously, but there are similarities. Here is a YouTube video from the Ed Sullivan show of Mason Williams performing Classical Gas:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZGEZ71USNuw and, here is Máiréad with Granuaile's Dance: http://youtube.com/watch?v=8cB2t3yz8A0 Title: Re: Is Granuaile's Dance CW's Classical Gas? Post by: Kimberly AJ on February 02, 2008, 04:34AM That sure is a great trune for anyone to hear. :)
Title: Re: Is Granuaile's Dance CW's Classical Gas? Post by: Western_Rose on February 02, 2008, 10:11AM wow thats really cool!
Title: Re: Is Granuaile's Dance CW's Classical Gas? Post by: celtic_fiddler on February 02, 2008, 12:30PM Both are very beautiful pieces of music. If you'd like to watch a violin version of Classical Gas you can see Vanessa Mae performing it here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKlLgZZCtgc (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKlLgZZCtgc).
Title: Re: Is Granuaile's Dance CW's Classical Gas? Post by: Kimberly AJ on February 02, 2008, 01:20PM My! That different version looks strange. :P
Title: Re: Is Granuaile's Dance CW's Classical Gas? Post by: Moscapoet on February 02, 2008, 04:07PM Classical gas is a great tune! I have the Mannheim steamroller version at home. I'd love to see Mairead crack the charts with her great instrumentals. They're all in the world charts so she just needs stations to play her airs.
Title: Re: Is Granuaile's Dance CW's Classical Gas? Post by: CWGhosty on February 02, 2008, 04:39PM Both guitar and violin versions are great.
Title: Re: Is Granuaile's Dance CW's Classical Gas? Post by: CTofer on February 02, 2008, 05:49PM I can see where some might claim similarities, but really I believe them to be two very different pieces of music.
Title: Re: Is Granuaile's Dance CW's Classical Gas? Post by: Kimberly AJ on February 03, 2008, 05:58AM Which must've been the lead of the fiddle, I bet ::)
Title: Re: Is Granuaile's Dance CW's Classical Gas? Post by: Western_Rose on February 03, 2008, 02:21PM the fiddle version is really cool as well!
Title: Re: Is Granuaile's Dance CW's Classical Gas? Post by: Kimberly AJ on February 12, 2008, 06:07PM It sure is a faster tune everybody gets to hear. I also think it's a mega-blast in the real-life concert. 8)
Title: Re: Is Granuaile's Dance CW's Classical Gas? Post by: Maloney on February 13, 2008, 12:39PM I love that song and Vanessa Mae playing Classical Gas was really cool too. bet our favorite fiddler could do it !!! Please !!!
Title: Re: Is Granuaile's Dance CW's Classical Gas? Post by: Kimberly AJ on April 26, 2008, 10:45AM I can keep my eyes on Mairead who plays the same song.
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