The Mason Williams Phonograph Record

The Mason Williams Phonograph Record
The Mason Williams Phonograph Record
Studio album by Mason Williams
Released	February 1968
Genre	Easy listening, classical, instrumental rock, classical crossover
Length	29:40
Label	Warner Bros. Records
Producer	Mike Post
Mason Williams chronology

The Mason Williams Phonograph Record is an album by classical guitarist and composer Mason Williams (with various accompaniment) released in 1968. It is Williams's most successful and most recognized album, and contains the instrumental "Classical Gas," his best known song. Mason Williams won two Grammy awards, for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Best Instrumental Theme, and Mike Post won Best Instrumental Arrangement on the song. In Canada, the album reached #16.^[1]

Track listing

All tracks are written by Mason Williams, unless otherwise noted. Arranged by Al Capps, except Overture and Classical Gas by Post and Dylan Thomas and Life Song by Williams. The first printing of the vinyl label misspelled The Prince's Panties as "Princess Panties"

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Overture"	Mike Post	1:49
2.	"All the Time"		2:40
3.	"Dylan Thomas"	(Lowell Mason, uncredited – tune of London Bridge is Falling Down)	0:29
4.	"Wanderlove"		3:22
5.	"She's Gone Away"		2:15
6.	"Here Am I"		4:06
7.	"Classical Gas"		3:06
8.	"Long Time Blues"		3:35
9.	"Baroque-a-Nova"	Allan Blye, Williams	2:20
10.	"The Prince's Panties"		1:40
11.	"Life Song"		0:27
12.	"Sunflower"		3:43
Total length:			29:40

Personnel

Musicians

Mason Williams – main performer and composer, guitar
Carl Fortina – accordion
Bob West, Lawrence Knechtel, and Lyle Ritz – bass
Armand Kaproff, Jerome Kessler, Jesse Ehrlich, and Joe DiTullio – cello
Lyle Ritz – double bass
James Beck Gordon – drums
David Duke and William Hinshaw – French horn, tuben
Alvin Casey, David Cohen, James Burton, and Michael Deasy – guitar
Gail Levant – harp
Gary L. Coleman and Gene Estes – percussion
Lawrence Knechtel and Michael Melvoin – piano
Richard J. Hyde, Hoyt Bohannon, Lew McCreary, and Richard Leith – trombone
David Burk, Emanuel Moss, George Kast, Harry Bluestone, Israel Baker, Jack Gootkin, Jimmy Getzoff, Jerry Reisler, John Vidor, Ralph Schaeffer, Robert Korda, Robert Sushel, Sidney Sharp, Stan Plummer, Tibor Zelig, and William Kurasch – violin
Jim Horn and Tommy Scott – woodwind

Production

Mike Post – producer
Phil Kaye – effects
Stan Cornyn – liner notes

References

^ "RPM Top 50 Albums - October 21, 1968" (PDF).

External links

[1] "RPM Top 50 Albums - October 21, 1968" (PDF).

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