This video for "Classical Gas" debuted on The Summer Brothers Smothers Show (1968)

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This is the Philip Glass cover version?

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I think I can point out it’s “Classical Gas” without being guilty of pedantry.

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Great song.

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Classical Gas was the intro music for the Canadian news hour the family watched when I was a little kid, so it imprinted on me early. Great tune!

(we were living right next to Niagara Falls on the US side)

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Heavily Eurocentric, but not 100%, so for the time that’s pretty progressive.

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Classical Gas is the song that plays on the control console when the Submillimeter Telescope (a radio telescope in Arizona) rotates through 360 degrees to unwrap its cables.

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Classical Glass?

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Saw this when it first aired. Still impressive.

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They missed an opportunity, though…should have ended on:

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We are now cultured!

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Glassic Rock!

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Ugh I think that video triggered a renaissance migraine

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Classical Glass? Classical Glass!

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trump-dance

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The SmoBros were generous with their air time. In terms of film, and I do like the Classical Gas, this is the film I’ve been carrying around in my memory for over 50 years now…American Time Capsule

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You are now cultured

JohnnyPluggedIn

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