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« on: February 02, 2008, 04:30AM » |
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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=ZGEZ71USNuwand, here is Máiréad with Granuaile's Dance: http://youtube.com/watch?v=8cB2t3yz8A0
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« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2008, 10:11AM » |
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wow thats really cool!
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"Make a joyful noise unto the Lord all the earth" Psalm 100:1
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« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2008, 12:30PM » |
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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.
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« Reply #5 on: February 02, 2008, 04:07PM » |
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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.
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« Reply #6 on: February 02, 2008, 04:39PM » |
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Both guitar and violin versions are great.
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« Reply #7 on: February 02, 2008, 05:49PM » |
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I can see where some might claim similarities, but really I believe them to be two very different pieces of music.
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« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2008, 02:21PM » |
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the fiddle version is really cool as well!
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"Make a joyful noise unto the Lord all the earth" Psalm 100:1
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« Reply #11 on: February 13, 2008, 12:39PM » |
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I love that song and Vanessa Mae playing Classical Gas was really cool too. bet our favorite fiddler could do it !!! Please !!!
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=) yes!! We got to go ! Then there was Atlanta !
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« Reply #12 on: April 26, 2008, 10:45AM » |
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I can keep my eyes on Mairead who plays the same song.
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