Classical Gas - Mason Williams 1968
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- "Classical Gas" is an instrumental composed and performed by Mason Williams with instrumental backing by members of the well-known L A Wrecking Crew session musicians. It was released in 1968 on the album The Mason Williams Phonograph Record. Initially titled "Classical Gasoline", the song was envisioned to be "fuel" for the classical guitar repertoire. The title was later shortened, possibly inadvertently, by a music copyist. The song peaked at #2 on the Billboard Chart, and #3 on the US Easy Listening chart. The composition won Grammy awards in 1969 for Best Instrumental Composition, Best Contemporary Pop Performance, Instrumental, and Best Instrumental Arrangement. Mason Williams once stated the formula of the song was that he wrote it while sitting along the shores of The Williamette River in Oregon as he watched the river water go from calm, to a faster flow, then splash, to rapids, and back again.
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My all time favorite... at 76 yrs old I never tire of listening to this masterful guitar player...
I agree. It's a great classic.
So exciting to have heard this during the Queens Gambit. Still love this song!!!!
I have tears in my eyes, and my goose bumps have goose bumps! Wonderful, wonderful music!
Beautifully played and still listening in 2019. Love it
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Quality always stands the test of time...
Great comment.
When i was a teenager it was played on the german radio at least once a day. It always made me happy hearing it.
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My father passed away when i was almost 7 years,i remember going thru is xollection of music and this was my favorite one,r.ip.father
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this pop's up in The QUeen's Gambit, such a nice scene, such good feeling song
A CLASSIC THAT WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN !!!
No doubt about that.
1968 to 2022 !! wow...
Memories of being 13 yrs old back in 1968, and in love with my very cute girl friend. She loved this song. 💏
I have always associated this piece with my older brother. Many thanks for the memories.
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A more distinguished version of Classical Gas Quite cool !
One of my favorites songs
This is a brilliant piece of music. A fusion between classical guitar and rock. Williams is a genius.
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I used to take dance and our teacher used to have us follow her I her improvized dance to this and to Zorba the Greek. I loved this song through my childhood. It was the best era for music!!!
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One of the great tunes that followed me through childhood to adulthood. From the original to it's various covers I've love them all. Then, the redo with The Mannheim Steamroller... WOW!! ❤❤❤
Here is the difference between the music of that era which i grew up in and music of today.
That era exploded with creativity and originality that today's music lacks and all sounds the same as if produced on an assembly line like all the cars today look the same.
Well said.
The so called music today is the trash that will not last a week. This is timeless.
my brother once played this song on his old martin 12 string sadly he lost his ability to play when he severely damaged his hand when a black powder .50 cal pistol he had built blew up in his hand..even sadder he lost his life a few years back to a diabetic coma. ill never hear him play again but to this day i still remember watching him play this song for me while we were both stationed at Ellsworth A.F.B s. dakota back in 1980. god bless you john, i miss you brother.
I'm sorry for your loss. No doubt he was a great brother.
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No doubt about it.
Sounds to me like your brother really lived some life.
Well that sucks ass! I'm sorry , I lost my brother too and he could play the guitar. Sadly he drank himself to death.
Esta melodía es otra de las obras maestras de la música 🤗😉🙏
One night I was watching the "Smothers Brothers" TV show, and they introduced Mason Williams, who proceeded to play this. Amazing.
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Mason Williams was a writer on their show. They had him back on their Reunion Show to do this song.
Have always loved this piece of music.
And angels need not have wings.
One of my favorites.
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I first heard this great tune riding the first escalater, in the Greenville Spartanburg sc. some one had a trancister playing in 1968 in the airport. so many versions I like the original best
You never know when your going to a hear great classic song.
Wonderful!
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Greatest classical hit of all time
It's amazing to me how the single guitar actually sound like a duet.
Love this tune! Glen Campbell also does this so beautifully! :)
I agree with you on that. My favorite Campbell song is "Wichita Lineman". Thanks for your comment.
He also wrote comedy for The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour and more than likely taught it to Glen.
I love this song.
Definitely a good one.
Beautiful song
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I remember this song very well from 1968 when was about 7 yrs old.
It was also used as the theme for Big Time Wrestling by the North American Wrestling Federation!
Classical gas..........and then.........after.......chaos!!!!!
Had no idea this man was not only an anti war activist, but also one of the main comedy writers for the Smothers Brothers, Glen Campbell Show and Saturday Night Live, an amazing man.
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Leny> Hora una clásica
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This song most typifies that era for me.
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I've always considered this the most beautiful guitar composition.
oooooooohhhhhhyes
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I love this song amazing musi🖤🥀🖤
I will never rearrange a reproduction Coco Channel atelier sofa to any other music.
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I can play a good fake of this on the guitar, I call it "Ancestral Gas", with no disrespect intended to the original artist/composer Mr Mason Williams.
Well then, you need to make a video of yourself doing your version f the song ,and upload it to your channel and see what kind of response you get.
now do classical gas
Pulleth my finger...
One word glen
To some people, "Classical Gas" is Supertest or B.A.
I'm sorry, I'm confused. Which recording is this? It's not the '68 version for sure.
This isn't the '68 2 1/2 minute minute version, because that one doesn't have the orchestral backing by the Los Angeles Wrecking Crew session musicians, plus an added bridge in the middle of the song putting it at 3 minutes. It is more dynamic and is the reason why I used it. It is also the "3000 Years of Art" version that premiered also in 1968 on the Smothers Brothers TV show.
This one here is obviously a later version of some recent vintage but I like it. I'd like to be able to find it. Can you help with that.
The 1968 Classical Gas "3000 Years of Art" video can be seen here: czcams.com/video/viyufRQKlto/video.html
Have you seen the one with the harp ? Wow!
Sounds like a clean version of the song done in 1988 for the reunion TV special..
Classical gas
Boltzmann was as aware of the ideal gas approximations as any modern scientist. He was the first to include external forces (a gravitational field). He attempted kinetic calculations for polyatomic molecules. And he knew that collisions with real container walls are likely to be inelastic and non-specular, adding randomness to the time evolution of the gas.
Boltzmann also knew that the exactness of deterministic laws of classical mechanics themselves went "beyond experience." No observational evidence justified their perfection. Newton himself doubted analytical perfection, in part for theological reasons that such perfection limited God's powers.
Loschmidt's reversibility objection forced Boltzmann to see that some configurations of position and velocity might lead to to a reduction in entropy, but Boltzmann appreciated the practical impossibility of preparing such a state. He thought fluctuations of local reductions in the entropy would occur. But he argued they would be short-lived in a non-ideal gas, given the effects of random perturbations from external forces.
In modern times, calculations have shown that even tiny amounts of matter at stellar distances can alter the trajectories of classical particles. A gram of matter at the distance of Sirius can cause a particle to miss a predicted collision after as few as 50 collisions. [Berry?]
Faced with Zermelo's recurrence objection, Boltzmann calculated the recurrence time for even a small number of particles and showed that it exceeded by many orders of magnitude the likely age of the universe. For all practical purposes, recurrence to a prepared state (with all particles in half the container volume for example) was impossible.
Conclusions for a Classical Gas
Boltzmann's H-theorem is valid
Loschmidt's reversibility objection still has some merit. But not only the gas particle velocities need to be reversed, all the events in the universe must reverse, including the cosmic expansion. This ties the arrow of time to both thermodynamics and the universe expansion.
Zermelo's recurrence objection remains valid
I prefer the simpler original recording, this version has a shade too much production overpowering Masons beautiful playing. Truly a classic
Great composition, too bad it was buried in all the orchestration.
Mason Williams did record a 2 1/2 minute original version without orchestration prior to this version.
@@60s70sTheBest This does not sound like the version I remember. That was also orchestrated, and similar to this, but not identical. Could there have been two orchestrated versions (e.g. one for a single, the other for an album)?
I will see if I can find what I think of as the "original version".
Edit: Found the version I was thinking of:
czcams.com/video/mREi_Bb85Sk/video.html
@@mikewellwood1412 Based on info, this version, with orchestration, is from Williams' album "The Mason Williams Phonograph Record" released in 1968 and also appeared on The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour TV show that same year. He also recorded and released several other versions as well.
@@mikewellwood1412 This version was played on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour for a 3-minute presentation of a montage of 3,000 years of human art. That video is on CZcams and is worth a watch; when I first saw it on the SBCH I hadn't heard "Classical Gas," and playing this as background music for the art montage absolutely blew my socks off -- at the ripe old age of 12. Amazing composition, amazing video, amazing arrangement. Mason Williams truly was and is a multi-talented genius -- the 60s' answer to Steve Allen. Great sense of humor, an extremely talented composer and guitarist and even a talented writer. Get to know him before we lose him to the annals of history along with so many others I've worshipped over the decades and are no longer with us.
Take out all the horns and other instruments and would be even better.
You should listen to Mason Williams's two and a half minute original version.
Looks for it listed under Eric Clapton. It isn't Clapton, he never recorded it, but it's Mason Williams doing it solo
Gates Smith - here you go - acoustic guitar version only. You're welcome :)
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@@60s70sTheBest The original version has the orchestral section. There version he wants is on Mason's album from 1970 entitled "Handmade".
@@neilstiener5553 Or look for this version, so you don't have to deal with bullshit from Clapton fans.
czcams.com/video/JeHgNqbdBKs/video.html