![]() ![]() ![]() It has sold more than one million copies and won three Grammys. The song was also used as a TV and News theme throughout the 70s in the US. Mason Williams re-recorded the song in 1970, this version was re-released in 2003 as part of the film Cheaper By The Dozen starring Steve Martin. This may have been because Clapton recorded much of the guitar music in the film The Story Of Us which also featured Mason’s re-recording of Classical Gas ![]() The result was called 3000 Years of Art and consisted of a video depicting over 3000 images of art shown in rapid succession while the song is playing.Įric Clapton is sometimes wrongly attributed as the writer of Classical Gas. Williams also collaborated with visual arts student Dan McLaughlin to create an arty music video to air the recorded version on television. He performed it several times on the show which helped it reach the Top Ten music charts. Interestingly Williams was not known as a musician, more so as a comedy writer for the show The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (though he did attend music college). It was originally called Classical Gasoline but due to a publishing error, it was shortened to Classical Gas. Classical Gas is an iconic fingerstyle piece written and recorded by Mason Williams in 1968. ![]()
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