Great post! Originally a simple guitar exercise called “Classical Gasoline.” ‘Classical’ as in the style, ‘gasoline’ as in fuel. Mason Williams earned US #OneHitWonder honors in 1968 when “Classical Gas” spent 11 weeks on the #Billboard #Top40, peaking at #2. #MasonWilliams #OneHitWondered #MusicSky
Today’s #instrumental...
Written by Texan poet and TV comedian Mason Williams, who (reportedly) played this on a clear-plastic guitar filled with water and goldfish... CLASSICAL GAS.
#ClassicalGas #music #MasonWilliams
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From renaissance man #masonwilliams
The Mason Williams Phonograph Record
Warner Brothers-Seven Arts Records WS 1729
Pitman pressing
February 1968
Arranged & Conducted by Al Capps
Produced by Mike Post
#nowplaying🎧▶️👈 #vinylrecord #vinylcollection #vinylcommuníty
#MasonWilliams - "#ClassicalGas" - 1988 - #SmothersBrothers Reunion Show youtu.be/z5KA4Eqxkc0?... via @YouTube
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“Classical Gas” by Mason Williams was a US #2 hit in 1968. ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 #vinylcommunity
#EveryHitSongEver #masonwilliams
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Mason Williams:
🎵 Classical Gas
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Mason Williams:
🎵 Classical Gas
#6music #MasonWilliams
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airplane skywriting leaves and a stem under the sun Photos by Tony Esparza
“In 1967, I had an idea for a film: to draw the world's biggest sunflower. It was to be a slow-motion aerial ballet in which an old bi-wing airplane skywrites “draws” the stem and leaves of a flower in the sky beneath the sun, the sun itself becoming the blossom of a "Sun" flower.”
#MasonWilliams
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Mason Williams:
🎵 Classical Gas
#6music #MasonWilliams
▶️ 🪄 Automagic 🔊 show 📻 playlist on Spotify
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#OnThisDay in 1938, #MasonWilliams, American musician, songwriter ("Classical Gas", Smother Brothers Comedy Hour), author, and photographer, born in Abilene, Texas.
#HappyBirthday #87 🎂🥳🎉🎊
Mason Williams, American classical guitarist, composer, singer, writer, comedian, and poet, was born on Aug. 24, 1938. #MasonWilliams
"Classical Gas - 3000 Years of Art", composed and performed by Mason Williams
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Day 111 a song I love everyday, with no repeated artists 🎵 #MusicSky 🎵 #MasonWilliams
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#Interestingly A final sidenote... “Classical Gas” spent 2 weeks stuck at #2 on the US #Billboard #Top40 in August of 1968… It was held out of the top spot by “Hello, I Love You” by The Doors. #MasonWilliams #TheDoors #OneHitWondered
#Interestingly In 1968, Mike Post was just 23 and had been working as a member of the famed Wrecking Crew, the top session musicians in LA… He was brought in to arrange Mason Williams’ guitar composition into something radio-ready. #MasonWilliams #MikePost #OneHitWondered
#OneHitHistory The week ending July 13, 1968, US classical guitarist, singer/composer, writer/comedian, & poet Mason Williams earned US #OneHitWonder honors when “Classical Gas” entered the US #Billboard #Top40 at #29. It spent 11 weeks on the chart, two weeks at #2. #MasonWilliams #OneHitWondered
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Classical Gas—Mason Williams
The former Smothers Brothers comedy writer turned hit-maker delivers! It’s complicated, but in a fun way, and it always makes me feel happy.
Plus, the CLONES!
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The Mason Williams Phonograph Record is an album by classical guitarist and composer Mason Williams (with various accompaniment) released in 1968
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(Just in case anyone’s interested) the first 4 records I bought were:
1) ‘Classical Gas’ #MasonWilliams
2) ‘Going Up The Country’ #CannedHeat
3) ‘Hello Goodbye’ #TheBeatles
4) ‘Living in the Past’ #JethroTull
- played them to death and still love all four.
