Classical Gas Trip Through Art
This "Classical Gas Video" started out as a student film with Beethoven's 5th Symphony as
the original soundtrack. After seeing the film in early 1968,
Mason Williams, a writer for the Smothers Brothers Show and
composer of the instrumental Classical Gas, approached the
film's creator about replacing the music. The revamped music
video was shown on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, first
during the summer of 1968 and several times more throughout the
year. The video has since passed into legend while Classical
Gas, due in part to the impact of the video, became one of the
largest selling instrumental recordings of all time.
The actual video has not been seen since 1968 and, for a
multitude of reasons, may never again see the light of day. This
is one person's take on a recreation using the original student
film (which, incidentally, was entitled "God is Dog Spelled
Backwards"), and re-edited it to Classical Gas. Give or take a
few frames, it is nearly identical to the actual video that
aired on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour almost 40 years ago.
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