Artist	Song
Walter Murphy & the Big Apple Band	A Fifth of Beethoven (1976 #1)
Tommy Dorsey	Song of India (1937 #5)
Bill Henderson & Oscar Peterson	The Lamp is Low (1963)
Larry Clinton & his Orchestra	My Reverie (1938 #1)
Della Reese	Don't You Know (1959 #2)
The Toys	A Lover's Concerto (1965 #2)
The Four Aces	Stranger in Paradise (1954 #3)
The Ventures	Rap City (1964)
Louis Prima	The Bigger the Figure (1952)
Patti Page	All My Love (1950 #1)
Eric Carmen	Never Gonna Fall in Love Again (1976 #11)
Barry Manilow	Could it be Magic (1975 #6)
Deodato	Also Sprach Zarathustra (2001) (1973 #2)
Freddy Martin	Tonight We Love (1942 #8)
Al Jolson	I'm Always Chasing Rainbows (likely in 1946)
Perry Como	Catch A Falling Star (1958 #1)
Allan Sherman	Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah! (A Letter From Camp) (1963 #2)
Peggy Lee	Baubles, Bangles and Beads (1953 #30)
Sarah Vaughan	Till The end Of Time (1963)
Jo Stafford	No Other Love (1950 #8)
Frank Sinatra	Full Moon And Empty Arms (1946 #17)
The Shangri-Las	Past, Present and Future (1966 #59)
Eric Carmen	All by Myself (1976 #2) (long version)

Comment:

Here are the classical origins of this mix by track number: 1) Disco version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. 2) Based on a theme from Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. 3) Based on Maurice Ravel's Pavane pour une infante defunte. 4) Based on Debussy's Raverie. 5) Adapted from an aria ("Muzetta's Waltz") from Puccini's La Boheme. 6) Based on J.S. Bach's Minuet in G from the Anna Magdalena Notebook. 7) Based on "Gliding Dance of the Maidens" from Alexander Borodin's Polovetsian Dances. 8) Based on Johannes Brahm's Hungarian Dance No. 5 in G minor. 9) Based on Rossini's Largo al Factotum from the Barber of Seville. 10) Based on Maurice Ravel's Bolero. 11) Based on Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony. 12) Quotes extensively from Chopin's Prelude in C minor. 13) A Funk arrangement of Richard Strauss' composition of the same name. 14) Vocal version of Tchiakovsky's Piano Concerto in B Flat. 15) Based on the Fantasie Impromptu in C Sharp Minor by Frederic Chopin. 16) Based on a theme from Brahm's Academic Festival Overture. 17) Based on Pochielli's "Dance of the Hours" from La Gioconda. 18) Based on Alexander Borodin's string Quartet in D. 19) Based on Frederic Chopin's Polonaise in A Flat major, op. 53, the "Polanaise heroique". 20) Derived from Frederic Chopin's Etude No. 3 in E, op. 10. 21) Based on Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2. 22) Based on Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 14, "Moonlight". 23) Based on Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2. The portrait is of Frederick Chopin who was the inspiration for 4 of the selections here (a close second was Sergei Rachmaninoff thanks in large part to Eric Carmen's attraction to his music). The length of this mix is 78m18s and the average peak charting year is 1959.0This mix is dedicated to Quentin, a friend of mine who suggested the theme (and he probably didn't think I'd take him up on it, but the idea stuck).

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