A show that I’ve been assembling content for months now, featuring cover songs that are based on pieces of classical music. Here’s what you’re going to hear:
| Title | Artist | Original Composer: |
| Nut Rocker | B. Bumble and the Stingers | Tchaikovsky’s Nutcraker Suite |
| Joy | Apollo 100 | Bach’s Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring |
| A Fifth of Beethoven | Walter Murphy & the Big Apple Band | Beethoven’s 5th Symphony |
| Give It Gavotte | Chas ‘n’ Dave | Godowsky’s Gavotte |
| Swan Lake | Madness | Tchaikovsky |
| In The Hall of the Mountain King | Erasure | Grieg |
| Bouree | Jethro Tull | Bach |
| Romeo & Juliet | Emerson, Lake and Palmer | Prokofiev |
35 minutes | 
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What no Roll Over Beethoven?
No Wendy Carlos? I dont think there are many in the uk of my age who dont know Chas’n’Dave.
Fun show tonight worth listening to just for your mispronouncations.
Hey Brian,
We seem to be thinking along the same lines again (see/hear http://www.ktsp.net/kts35.mp3). Surprisingly, you used totally different songs than I did!
Karin.
@ Simon: I used Roll over Beethoven in ktsp31.
How could you EVER forget Barry Manilow’s “Could It Be Magic” which is a mash cover of Chopin’s Prelude #20, from opus 28, the Prelude in C Minor, F. And while we’re on the subject of the old wazoo, Barry’s own “Mandy” is a cover of the Scott English song hit (in England) “Brandy.” Not that I would ask you to play Mandy; just writing it here has stuck it in my mind for the rest of the day.
Great show. Other possibilities for the future include: Yes – “Cans and Brahms” (Symphony No. 4, 3rd movement) off of Fragile; Keith Emerson and the Nice doing Tchaikovsky’s 3rd movement from the “Pathetique Symphony” (No. 6), Bach’s “Brandenburg Concerto No. 6” and Sibelius’ “The Karelia Suite” off the Five Bridges album; and speaking of Sibelius, Tony Burrows and The First Class quote Sibelius’ Symphony no. 5 with their horn ending on the extended play version of “Beach Baby.” A further note about the Yes piece. Each member of the band was to author and showcase a song for the album. Apparently Wakeman was still under contract to A&M and couldn’t write a piece for the Fragile album being put out on Atlantic Records. So he did the next best thing by arranging a piece of classical music to avoid the legal implications.
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nutrocker kicks ass!
A fifth of Beethoven!! Yes!!!!
good show, one of my favourite coverville’s so far.
..but you totally forgot about:
* Coolio’s “I’ll C U” which samples Pachelbel’s Canon in D!!!! (yeah, ok, that sucks)
* Tenacious D’s “Rock Your Socks” utilises some Bach
(“That’s is Bach and it rocks/ It’s a rock block of Bach/ that he learned in the school/ called the school of hard knocks)
*Price Paul has sampled beethoven a few times, first on A Tribe Called Quest’s “Can I Kick it?” and then again on the Handsome Boy Modelling School album “So… how’s your girl?”
also, didn’t Spinal Tap cover Motzart?
me again…. I almost forgot, you NEED to check out Japanese musician Cornelius’ song “2010” from his album “Fantasma”… it uses a lot of Beethoven, not sure which piece though, but it is absolutely crazy!
Great idea for a show!
One of my favourite classical covers is The Vandals doing a punk version of Tchaikovsky’s Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairies (also from the Nutcracker). There’s also another rock cover of Beethoven’s Fifth done by Yngwie Malmsteen. You also forgot (or deliberately left out) Deodato’s 70s take on Strauss’s Also Sprach Zarathustra, which I think was featured in the Peter Sellers film Being There.
Wow, who knew classical covers had so many fans that would be unhappy that their favorite was left out? I guess you can add me to the bunch – what about the ever popular Vanessa-Mae? Her Storm album contains some great stuff, including Bach Street Prelude (a cover of Bach’s Partita in E), I Can, Can You (the Can-Can), and Summer Haze & Storm (covers of Vivaldi’s FourSeasons).
Oh well, even missing my favorites, it was a great show and I hope you do another like it sometime!
Hmmm…not my favorite Coverville episode, but I did still listen to it in entirety…
When I read the title, I was hoping it would feature music that uses classical music within a new song, rather than some of the teeth-gritting sounds of four-piece bands trying to emulate an orchestra…ugh.
But maybe by definition, that’s not truly a cover…I was thinking of The Farm’s “All Together Now” that uses Pachelbel’s Canon to make something quite new and unique…
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Together_Now
Wow, this was an awesome show, I loved the art rock cover of Romeo and Juliet. Very Tim Burton-esque.