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Classical Gassers - Pop Gems Inspired By The Great Composers
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Album: Classical Gassers - Pop Gems Inspired By The Great Composers
# Song Title   Time
1)    Piltdown Rides Again - the Piltdown Men More Info...
2)    Goodbye Cruel World - James Darren More Info...
3)    Dawning - Jay & the Americans More Info...
4)    Just Let Me Cry - Lesley Gore More Info...
5)    Nut Rocker - B Bumble & the Stingers More Info...
6)    A Lover's Concerto - the Toys More Info...
7)    Mountain of Our Love - Lesley Miller More Info...
8)    Asia Minor - Kokomo More Info...
9)    She Wears My Ring - Roy Orbison More Info...
10)    The Wedding (La Novia) - Julie Rogers More Info...
11)    Tchaikovsky One - the Second City Sound More Info...
12)    Swan Lake - the Cats More Info...
13)    My Clair de Lune - Jay & the Americans More Info...
14)    Stranger in Paradise - the Galens More Info...
15)    Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (A Letter from Camp) - Allan Sherman More Info...
16)    Hall of the Mountain King - Sounds Incorporated More Info...
17)    My Hero - Renee St Clair More Info...
18)    Can Can Girl - the Pulse More Info...
19)    Peter and the Wolf - Harpers Bizarre More Info...
20)    Mozart Symphony No.40 in G Minor - Waldo de los Rios More Info...
21)    Attack! - the Toys More Info...
22)    Whiter Shade of Pale - Shorty Long More Info...
23)    A Groovy Kind of Love - the Mindbenders More Info...
24)    Sabre Dance - Love Sculpture More Info...
 

Album: Classical Gassers - Pop Gems Inspired By The Great Composers
# Song Title   Time
1)    Piltdown Rides Again - the Piltdown Men More Info...
2)    Goodbye Cruel World - James Darren More Info...
3)    Dawning - Jay & the Americans More Info...
4)    Just Let Me Cry - Lesley Gore More Info...
5)    Nut Rocker - B Bumble & the Stingers More Info...
6)    A Lover's Concerto - the Toys More Info...
7)    Mountain of Our Love - Lesley Miller More Info...
8)    Asia Minor - Kokomo More Info...
9)    She Wears My Ring - Roy Orbison More Info...
10)    The Wedding (La Novia) - Julie Rogers More Info...
11)    Tchaikovsky One - the Second City Sound More Info...
12)    Swan Lake - the Cats More Info...
13)    My Clair de Lune - Jay & the Americans More Info...
14)    Stranger in Paradise - the Galens More Info...
15)    Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (A Letter from Camp) - Allan Sherman More Info...
16)    Hall of the Mountain King - Sounds Incorporated More Info...
17)    My Hero - Renee St Clair More Info...
18)    Can Can Girl - the Pulse More Info...
19)    Peter and the Wolf - Harpers Bizarre More Info...
20)    Mozart Symphony No.40 in G Minor - Waldo de los Rios More Info...
21)    Attack! - the Toys More Info...
22)    Whiter Shade of Pale - Shorty Long More Info...
23)    A Groovy Kind of Love - the Mindbenders More Info...
24)    Sabre Dance - Love Sculpture More Info...
 
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  • Liner Note Author: Sam Szczepanski.
  • Illustrators: Sam Szczepanski; Vicki Fox; Tony Rounce; Mick Patrick.
  • This is a nifty idea for a compilation: collect a bunch of '60s hits, singles, and oddities inspired by classical composers. The key differentiating factor here is that these are "gassers," not art-inspired stabs at prog profundity (in other words, Procol Harum's famed "A Whiter Shade of Pale" is here only in a version by Shorty Long). These are all pop singles, some so popular that their classical origins may not be evident to some fans. James Darren's "Goodbye Cruel World" conveys a mad circus that overshadows its roots in Fucik's "Entry of the Gladiators," the Mindbenders' stately "A Groovy Kind of Love" obscures its Clementi debt, and Roy Orbison's "She Wears My Ring" also disguises its classical melody. Elsewhere, the nods to classical compositions are overt. Love Sculpture's hypercharged "Sabre Dance" is a psychedelicized cover of Khachaturian, the Toys' "A Lover's Concerto" winks that it's based on Bach, and Kim Fowley's studio concoction B. Bumble & the Stingers gleefully trash up Tchaikovsky with "Nut Rocker" -- and that's not even mentioning Allan Sherman using Ponchielli for his novelty "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah (A Letter from Camp)," Sounds Incorporated roaring through "Hall of the Mountain King," or Harpers Bizarre skipping through "Peter and the Wolf." Collecting all these singles in one place demonstrates that this really was a '60s fad, and that alone makes Classical Gassers a worthy historical document, but it's also fun because it swings between the effervescent and strange. It's odd to realize the Toys went back to the classical well after "A Lover's Concerto," and it's strange to hear Lesley Miller fit Grieg's "Hall of the Mountain King" into the teen drama "Mountain of Our Love" and Waldo de los Rios turn Mozart into easy listening (this is the only cut that's not from the '60s). Such footnotes to pop history are worth preserving, and that's why this collection is such a gas. ~ Stephen Thomas Erlewine
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