Hooked on Classics Parts 1 + 2

[Foxrrob]

I heard this song this morning on an old Casey Kasem's top 40 show. I love beautiful instrumental music.

[fergusil]

Back in summer 1981 when I was 9 years old,I loved this! Thanks for post and naming the tracks.

[EBE246]

I've been looking for that bizet piece ever since i was reminded about it in the new subway blt button busting commercial.

[wigglyworm91]

These tracks would be so much better without the drum beat in the background.

[starwars1770]

lost this cd years ago and couldnt remember the name of it but 5 mins on the internet and bingo, ordered the original recording from amazon, am a happy bunny.

[1michaelmole]

This is cool

[rorro1189]

I love this album! My mother used to have this one and the second part on Vinyl LP!!! unfortunately she lost it! but the mix is simply perfect!

[nobody168]

perfectly mixed !! 

[1951starwolf]

didn't the rasio stations origanlly paly this as "Pop Goes to the Symphony"? ans wasn't ther also: Pop go's COUNTRY, Pop go's AROUND the WORLD, and i think ther was 1 more. Or maybe I just love this so much I'm DREAMING? Please reply thank you.

[gcaval99]

I love Green Hornet, Gyruss and Lone Ranger songs !

[milkjugs38dd]

I have the original 2-record LP set of the Hooked on the Classics

[yoshi850]

man i cant get the music out of my head!!!

[Showoftim]

Im 17 and I bought this record from goodwill not knowing that it was disco.......The Flight Of The Bumble Bee surprised the crap out of me, I couldn't stop smiling. it was the second biggest surprise I have found in goodwill's records :)

[SilverzaCat]

Finally now i can do my homework without stress :)

[MrIrishexaminer]

Can i just say , " THANK'S ! " you put a lot of work into this and as passive Classical lover at least i know who composed what . Thanks again .

[VansFaith]

0:35 Mozart's Symphony no 40 - 1st movement

[Anthem1998]

Just bought this on tape... 25 cents :D

[CarminaBG]

yeahhhhhh, I remeber it. Had it on tape, listened to it aLL the time :) very very very nice music mix of forever classical diamonds !

[jjesg91]

LOVE IT <3

[zamev]

Ah, the 80's!! :)

[rgs2654321]

Wow you got some real good ones here :) Thanks for sharing

[nickellicker]

This is an extremely novel way of posting "Hooked on Classics," and I'm very impressed...My roommate and I bought the original vinyl albums when they first came out, and we would always check the back of the album to see if we could find out where the songs segmented...Putting a face to each composer is brilliant, and with those visuals, it's much better than when I originally heard it...Kudos for posting it...

[Gmackematix]

It's hard to imagine those pictures of Tchaikovsky are the same man.

I like to imagine Rimsky-Korsakov's beard here is made of bees!

Rossini would look fat as he had a steak named after him.

Finally, what is the picture with the Trumpet Voluntary?

[ensimon]

@Gmackematix Τhe Trumpet Voluntary picture is just a baroque painting.

[lindaguadalajara]

@Gmackematix. Rossini looks slim in the picture but was in fact chubby haha! He visited cities and anounced the opening of an opera that wasn't even written. He spent weeks having feasts with everyone in town and created expectation while writting the opera in secret. At the end he was a well fed success. After years of doing this, he retired and became... A CHEF!

I'm not sure if he is the creator of the Rossini steak but I sure know it´s of my favorites :o)

[PrEttYbAbYmx]

well... I LOVE THE MUSIC... yes ... but i love the video too!!! is wonderful, with the name of each song, and the photo!! wowww u are great!! congratulations!!

[Scappydude]

99,999th viewer :D lol this is absolutely the most amazing piece (or pieces) of music ive ever heard :)

[lollipop3379]

can you please respond to me and tell me the instruments you used to make this? or even how?? THX!

[ensimon]

@lollipop3379 Using a simple photo-slides show program.

[60mark61]

This was released in the last week of November 1981 and hit #10 on the Billboard pop chart in early 1982.

[patikotron3000]

Awesome!!!

[67diamondgirl]

AWESOME LOVED IT!!!!!!!!

[londubh2007]

I had blotted this from my memory. Why God, why?

[crazysingingchick]

My brother and I found that Pac Man was much more enjoyable to play if you turned the sound all the way down on the game and played this record in the background instead. It made things exciting and provided lots of laughs as the ghosts "danced" to the music. He and I both loved classical music, even back then (the real stuff too). :)

[tranqui88]

Amo la música clásica (♥_♥) haya ellos a los q no le guste

[tractorboy406]

Best memories of the time when Radio One played all chart music, not discriminating against certain genres. The summer radio one road show with this blasting out, the whole crowd singing along with (and I think this is accurate) Mike Read conducting as they bobbed along!

[tpocain]

Well, you must be my age, StJames888--any classical music that I can dance to is all right in my book!:)

[TheQ97]

. . . ain't it weird that the theme song from "The Lone Ranger" was

a song from way back then!!! COINDENCE or WHAT!!!

[curtisjoesphfan]

thumbs up if your music teacher made you listen to this...

[stjames888]

I remember this from when I was like 12 years old. Its a very good way to get kids into classical music.  I'll admit it's mildly bastardizing the music by putting a disco beat to it. Anything that can educate kids to good music nowadays especially with all the crap music is all right by me; also nice touch adding the pictures of the composers, putting a face to all thes timeless classics is a smart thing- cheers!!

[JudyGurl]

absolutely love it !

[Evangeline5030]

thanks you

[alexelliottwelch]

Yay! I'm the 62,000th viewer!

[jcduranlm]

este medley si k me trae buenos y viejos recuerdos!! gracias!!

[GloriaD5767]

Thanks for identifying each of the composers. At the end, there are three brief pieces, one is by Mozart, I don't know who did the second and of course the end is "Beethoven's Ninth." I've loved HOC since it came out.

[Dracorex13]

@GloriaD5767 The second is the Intermezzo from Karelia.

[GloriaD5767]

@Dracorex13 Thank YOU!!!!!!

[XRB69]

so useful! thanks, great initiative to identify the authors

[XRB69]

so useful! thanks! great initiative to identify the authors

[mpetkevicius]

Best way to learn classics ever!

[Flecha57]

Cool... thanks for uploading. So many great memories. :))

[KellyPedro]

Britain: Purcell, Elgar, and…, Ll.Webber?. Germany-Austria: Pachelbel, Handel, Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Wagner, Strauss, Von Suppe, the other Strauss… of course there are many more in both sides, but (being fair) this proportion would not change… why so much difference between Germany and their anglo-saxons cousins, who migrated from Germany to the islands?

[KellyPedro]

@KellyPedro But I dont want to appear one-sided: why so much difference in novelists and story tellers from XVII century to the present, this time in favour of Britain??

[taschntigerle]

..i try to find tgis ti buy but i can´t find it xou can tell me where i dound it??

[KAPNIZW]

An amazing toy between musical works, of the greats of classical music ..... Excellent !!!!!

[robfergusonjr]

This is the only time where the music matches up with the images ... good going.

[Victorgoleche75]

Simply fantastic idea!

I remember listening to this CD when I was a kid, now it's all coming back.

What wonderful music is unappreciated these days.

[MegaFrapp]

No mammmmm wey esta de poca mad.... ok is cool ok megakool

[PoIIitoEnmascarado]

felicidades, excelente video y la musica fantastica!!!

[rempel38]

I was forced to listen to this in the family car :( Got to be dragging

[qwertypoopbath]

well, good. its actually really good. and i HATE classic music. i mean HATE it. and i love this. so its a good thing they forced you.

[GAMMATRON5000]

I LOOOOOOVE the way they do Grieg's concerto in A minor here (minus the disco beat), and I wish I could find someone playing it at a similar tempo elsewhere, but so far... nothing =/

[ensimon]

@GAMMATRON5000 I have such a recording, if you want it, you can send me message to fix the way to send it to you!

[Razor61289]

An interesting idea!, works I think, in a way!

[Rlzee]

I listened to this over and over when I was a Kid. Thanks For Posting It!

[edmiltonfiorini]

que lindo !!!!! uma mixagem muito feliz e empolgante, realmente foi feito com muita inspiração!!!! PARABÉNS!!!!

[yodaistheone]

I used to listen to this walking to work on my walkman........Hell I am getting old

[qwertypoopbath]

oh yeah. walkman? lol

[Dan7Arpeggy]

Excellent, simply excellent ... ^^

[cretehot]

mummy still got thhe lp

[Teifi71]

Louis Clark and the Royal Philarmonic Orchestra performed this back in 1981. It was big in the UK Charts.

[almerazm]

I only have to say: thanks. I love it!!!

[cretehot]

louis clark was responsible for ELO ! i bought this album for my mum at the time of release..just come across it here...still as good

[notbobdog]

I still remember seeing people in their cars conducting this.

[hellmaster999dio]

o man.i was playing this years ago with my band. Philarmonic Society of Corfu.  .i was playing horn.thank you for this upload.i had orgasm in my ears

[ROBERTO59892]

me encanta este sensacional arreglo de pistas de musica y me fascinan las fotografias exelente trabajo felicitaciones y que viva por siempre la musica clasica..........

[Leosex07]

Muy buen trabajo te felicito quizas se pudiera mejorar pero me encanta melodia gracias por hacer algo por ella..

[MrGigastone]

@mimasS56: thanks for the answer..

[MrGigastone]

holy shit.... who makes this song??? please answer..

[MimasS56]

Louis Clark

[paddotk]

It's a remix (/medley) of some of the master classical pieces. :)

[Iluv2raceit]

Excellent work - brings back memories of my teenage years when this first came out. They use to play this song all the time on the pop music radio stations. Very cool. I definitely need to get the MP3s for these songs. This is just one of the songs on the record - albeit the best one in my opinion :-D

[MoleinaHole]

My mum played this to the vinyl was worn. Then she got the album on cassette and played it till it snapped. Strangely I remain really quite fond of it.

[relaxednu]

Hey...I like this a lot...always have...pretty cool huh?

[freacls]

awsome i have thise on an old cassete tape i got at a car boot sale

[kikishana]

yay i've always loved this. I used to take my moms record of Hooked on classics and dance around with it so brought back memories. THANKS! xD

[888HeRa888]

great video!well done!:!)

[classicalgirl01]

EXCELLENT. What a genius ( whoever made this)

[tgv3000]

SUPERBE !!!

[tonito60187]

thanks for sharing

great way to learn about composers

[freacls]

my god mortzart is so young just a kid he was a child geniuse

[tonito60187]

are u kidding?

you did not t know that?

[freacls]

i thought everyone knew i think he was only 3 then he started playing the old Harpsicord

[bubyfan]

seria posible encontrarlo de nuevo en las tiendas?

[eli4777]

Great medley...had the 12 inch disco/dance record back in the day. Thanks ensimon for the way you presented this song in your video!.

[january301973]

What part of Greece are you from, ensimon?

[Robbie80015]

Wow! Cool! The Biggest shock to me was Tchaikovsky and Rossini. Not at all what I expected.

[caddysabine]

Absolutely great! A wonderful thing out of the 80´s

[captainjinks1]

I simply had to thank you, thank you for this, it is wonderful! I had a cassette of this when it first came out, listened for hours (until the tape warped) while trying to follow along with the liner notes to identify the individual pieces. Thank you again for putting this together, very nice!

[thebigswells]

I have to respond. This was circa 1983??? That was techno, before there was techno. Makes techno look pretty easy. And it is.

[tvargan]

Just joking- I like the classical mix with a techno beat in the background.

[tvargan]

I've written my own version..

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[ensimon]

? ? ?

[paddotk]

@tvargan derp dee derp, da titalee tum!

[josielpontocom]

@tvargan Lay off the drugs

[DeltaAlphaDeltaOne]

I too am impressed with the composer's photos and the work being played. It is sad that all these composers are now decomposing.

[jadywpg]

excellent job of putting the composers photos in your video,,,,that is just awesome,,,,,very good idea!

[loiming10]

Thanks for the photo of each composer. Excellent job!!

[themikefordeffect]

A good dance beat improves any song!!!

[devonchaffe]

Are you crazy? those are the best tunes ever, Clark just did it to reach the ignorant mass!

[qwertypoopbath]

the most true thing i have ever heard

[sadattci]

My favorite cd's,very nice"hooked"classics!

[ian507]

thanks for putting faces to the names

[OriginalRooster]

The sound is great. I was referring to my old scratchy record. Sorry about the confusion.

[OriginalRooster]

Excellent job! I have this on a 45RPM. I wish the sound quality was this good!