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Post by rayge on Jan 16, 2019 16:25:58 GMT
I'm still old enough to remember the outrage generated by pop writers and performers taking, ahem, 'inspiration' from classical composers in the Fifties and Sixties. (although there are examples from the 1930s and 1940s too).
Bad enough that Stranger in Paradise (and apparently most of the other songs from Kismet) took its melody from Borodin, or that It's Now or Never was a lift of O Sole Mio, but when provincial guitar-stranglers, Murrikans and other low-lifes got hold of canonical classical lollipops, the sounds of cultural guardians' heads exploding was almost enough to drown out the youth club hootenanny. There's loads of them, some were huge hits. This is the sort of thing I mean:
Drowning Tchaikowski (who really copped it from this mini genre)
Surfin up Borodin
Rocking Rossini, a two-fer
The William Tell Overture really gets a pounding in pop. Spike Jones and the Seven Singing Sisters of Vienna both reduced it to rubble.
Anyway, plenty more where that came from. Anyone else?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 16, 2019 16:35:41 GMT
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Post by DarknessFish on Jan 16, 2019 22:00:35 GMT
"All By Myself" is a rip-off of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No 2 in C Minor.
But that sucks, so no yew choob.
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Post by loveless on Jan 16, 2019 22:02:17 GMT
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Post by toomanyhatz on Jan 16, 2019 22:18:38 GMT
The one I remember (Ray's a little older than me  : Also, sorry for the prog flirtation, but it is one of my favorite "prog adjacent" bands borrowing from my favorite modern English composer (Benjie Britten's "Simple Symphony," movement 3): |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 17, 2019 1:35:11 GMT
Procol Harum, obviously.
The tune from The Beatles 'Because' is based on Moonlight Sonata played backwards.
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Post by rayge on Jan 17, 2019 16:46:49 GMT
The tune from The Beatles 'Because' is based on Moonlight Sonata played backwards. Sounds better played forwards... |
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Post by loveless on Jan 17, 2019 16:48:05 GMT
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Post by rayge on Jan 17, 2019 16:57:21 GMT
and not actually a classical piece, but it is Joe Meek
I was hoping to post the Invictas' hipster smooth version of this from the mid-1960s, but the only you tube I could find is a 23-second clip that sounds rubbish.
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Post by Charlie O. on Jan 18, 2019 5:00:04 GMT
Van Dyke Parks' first single, 1966:
And of course...
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