![]() * (1976) "Night on Disco Mountain" by David Shire - disco version of Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain, featured in Saturday Night Fever * (1976) "A Fifth of Beethoven" by Walter Murphy - disco version of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, featured in Saturday Night Fever * (1975) "Could It Be Magic" by Barry Manilow - inspired by Chopin's Prelude In C Minor (Prelude #20: Largo) Same year, Carmen's "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again" borrows from the Adagio of Rachmaninoff's Symphony No. * (1975) "All by Myself" by Eric Carmen - borrows heavily from Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. * (1972) Pictures at an Exhibition by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - entire album based on the work by Modest Mussorgsky, with two original pieces ("The Sage" and "The Curse of Baba Yaga"), and a live cover of "Nut Rocker" featuring Clavinet * (1972) "Also Sprach Zarathustra" by Deodato - a funk arrangement of Richard Strauss' composition of the same name * (1969) "Mars: The Bringer of War" by King Crimson on Epitaph - a progressive rock arrangement of Mars, from the The Planets suite by Gustav Holst * (1968) "Rain and Tears" by Aphrodite's Child based on Johann Pachelbel's Canon in D Major. * (1967) "Schroeder" in the stage musical You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown - based on Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata". 3, Air (commonly known as Air on a G String) and Cantata 140 "Sleepers Awake". * (1967) "A Whiter Shade of Pale" by Procol Harum - (loosely) based on J.S. * (1965) Diane and Annita's "A Groovy Kind of Love" is heavily based on the Rondo movement of Sonatina in G major, op. Bach's Notebook for Anna Magdalena Bach". * (1965) "A Lover's Concerto" by The Toys - based on J.S. * (1963) "" by Allan Sherman - based on Ponchielli's "Dance of the Hours" from La Gioconda. * (1960) "" by Elvis Presley - also based on O Sole Mio. * (1959) "Don't You Know" by Della Reese - based on "Musetta's Waltz" from Puccini's La Boheme * (1959) "Once Upon a Dream" in the Disney movie Sleeping Beauty - based upon a waltz in Tchaikovsky's ballet Sleeping Beauty. * (1958) "Catch a Falling Star" by Lee Pockriss and Paul Vance - based on a theme from Brahms' Academic Festival Overture * (1956) "" by Al Hoffman and Dick Manning - based on a theme from Chabrier España, Rhapsody for Orchestra * (1953) "Stranger in Paradise" by George Forrest and Robert Wright, in the Broadway musical Kismet - based on a theme from Alexander Borodin's Polovetsian Dances ![]() * (1952) "The Bigger The Figure", by Louis Prima - based on Rossini's Largo al factotum from The Barber of Seville. * (194?) Gershwin's "Summertime", by Sidney Bechet, - quotes from Verdi's's "Miserere" from Il Trovatore. * (1949) "There's No Tomorrow," lyrics by Al Hoffman, Leo Corday and Leon Carr, popularized by Tony Martin, based on O Sole Mio by Eduardo di Capua. * (1946) "Summer Moon" by Klenner, sung by Lauritz Melchior - based on Igor Stravinsky's The Firebird (Ronde des princesses) * (1945) "Till the End of Time," words by Buddy Kaye and Ted Mossman, popularized by, among others, Perry Como - based on Frédéric Chopin's "Polonaise In A Flat" * (1945) "Full Moon and Empty Arms", by Buddy Kaye and Ted Mossman - based on Sergei Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. * (1941) "Tonight We Love", by Freddy Martin, Bobby Worth and Ray Austin - based on Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No 1 in B-Flat Minor, Op.23 * (1939) "The Lamp is Low" - Peter DeRose and Bert Shefter - based on Maurice Ravel's Pavane pour une infante défunte * (1938) "My Reverie" by Larry Clinton - based on Debussy's Rêverie Tommy Dorsey - based on "The Song of the Indian Guest" from Rimsky-Korsakov's Sadko. * (1930) "In an Eighteenth-Century Drawing Room" by Raymond Scott - based on Mozart's Piano Sonata, K. * (1928) "Lover, come back to me" in The New Moon by Sigmund Romberg - the middle section is based on "June: Barcarolle" from Tchaikovsky's The Seasons, opus 37b. * (1922) "Goin' Home" popularized by Paul Robeson - based on the "Largo" from 's ' Cobb - based on the Peer Gynt Suite by Edvard Grieg. Philips - based on the Gendarmes' Duet from Jacques Offenbach's opera Genevieve de Brabant * (1918) "I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" by Joseph McCarthy and Harry Carroll - based on the by Frédéric Chopin. * (1913) "Hungarian Rag" by Julius Lenzberg - based on the Second Hungarian Rhapsody by Franz Liszt. *(1891) "O Promise Me" by Reginald DeKoven & Smith, from the musical Robin Hood - based on Musica proibita, the name popularly given to an aria in the 1888 Italian opera Mala Pasqua by Stanislao Gastaldon. The practice of adapting classical compositions is associated with various popular genres, including Tin Pan Alley, progressive rock, and heavy metal. Instrumental pieces are tagged with an uppercase "", or a lowercase "" for quasi-instrumental including non-lyrics voice samples. This is a list of examples of popular songs that are arrangements of, or otherwise make use of, works of classical music.
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