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Mason Williams
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"Classical Gas" (1967)
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The Toys
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"A Lover's Concerto"
based on J.S. Bach's Minuet in G from the Anna Magdalena Notebook (1965)
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Mr. Bumble & The Stingers
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"Nut Rocker"
based on Tchaikovsky's "March of the Wooden Soldiers" from The Nutcracker (1962)
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The Beatles
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"Because"
inspired by Beethoven's Piano sonata No. 14, "Moonlight" (1969)
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Blood, Sweat & Tears
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"Variations On A Theme By Erik Satie"
based on Trois Gymnopédies by Eric Satie (1968)
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The Seekers
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"Emerald City"
based on Beethoven's Ode to Joy (1968)
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Love Sculpture
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"Sabre Dance"
based on Khatchaturian's "Gayane" (1969)
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Elvis Presley
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"It's Now Or Never"
based on O Sole Mio by di Capua (1960)
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Billy Joel
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"And So It Goes"
based on the hymn Jerusalem by Charles Hubert Parry (1989)
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Jem
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"They"
largely based on Prelude 12 from J. S. Bach's The Well-Tempered Clavier (Book 2) (2003)
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Walter Murphy
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"A Fifth of Beethoven"
disco version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, featured in Saturday Night Fever (1976)
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Perry Como
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"Catch a Falling Star"
based on a theme from Brahms' Academic Festival Overture (1958)
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Procal Harum
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"A Whiter Shade Of Pale"
loosely based on J.S. Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3, Air (commonly known as Air on a G String) and Cantata 140 "Sleepers Awake" (1967)
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Green Day
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"Basket Case"
based on (same chord progression as) Pachelbel's Canon in D Major (1994)
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Emerson Lake & Palmer
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"Hoedown"
based on Rodeo by Aaron Copland (1972)
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Fever Tree
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"Imitation Situation"
uses opening passage of J.S. Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor (1967)
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The Doors
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"Albinoni's Adagio in G Minor"
based on Albinoni's Adagio (1969)
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The Who
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"Hall of the Mountain King"
inspired by Edvard Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite (1968)
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Eumir Deodato
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"Also Sprach Zarathustra"
funk arrangement of the Strauss composition (1972)
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Jane Birkin
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"Jane B"
based on Frédéric Chopin's "Prelude No. 4" (1969)
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Apollo 100
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"Joy"
based on Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring by J.S. Bach (1972)
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Chumbawamba
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"Tubthumping"
quotes Jeremiah Clarke's Trumpet Voluntary (1997)
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Sting
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"Russians"
based on "Romance" theme from Lieutenant Kije Suite, Opus 60 by Sergei Prokofiev (1989)
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Beach Boys
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"Lady Lynda"
based on J.S. Bach's Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (1978)
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SweetBox
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"Everything's Gonna Be Alright"
uses J.S. Bach's Air from the Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major (1998)
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Bright Eyes
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"Road to Joy"
based on the melody of Beethoven's Ode to Joy (2005)
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The Mindbenders
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"A Groovy Kind of Love"
based on the rondo section of Muzio Clementi's "Sonatina in G major," op. 36 no. 5 (1966)
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Alan Sherman
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"Hello Mudduh, Hello Fadduh! (A Letter From Camp)"
based on Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours" from La Gioconda (1963)
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The Shangri-Las
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"Past, Present and Future"
based on Beethoven's Piano sonata No. 14, "Moonlight" (1966)
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