Classical Gas (Mason Williams and Mannheim Steamroller album)

Classical Gas is a 1987 album by new age group Mannheim Steamroller and guitarist/composer Mason Williams. The album's title piece, "Classical Gas", was originally featured on Williams's 1968 solo album The Mason Williams Phonograph Record.

Classical Gas
Studio album by Mason Williams and Mannheim Steamroller
Released	22 October 1987
Genre	New-age
Length	37:28
Label	American Gramaphone
Producer	Chip Davis
Mannheim Steamroller chronology
Saving the Wildlife (1986) Classical Gas (1987) A Fresh Aire Christmas (1988)
Mason Williams chronology
Of Time and Rivers Flowing (1984) Classical Gas (1987) A Gift of Song (1992)

Track listing

All tracks are written by Mason Williams, unless otherwise noted.

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Classical Gas"		3:32
2.	"Sunflower"		2:14
3.	"Samba Beach"		3:59
4.	"Country Idyll"		2:18
5.	"Saturday Night at the World"		3:56
6.	"Shady Dell"		3:23
7.	"Katydid's Ditty"		0:58
8.	"Greensleeves"	traditional	3:07
9.	"Doot-Doot"		2:08
10.	"La Chanson de Claudine"		3:17
11.	"McCall"		2:41
12.	"Vancouver Island"		2:50
13.	"Baroque-a-Nova"		3:06
Total length:			37:28

Personnel

Performance Credits

• Mannheim Steamroller – primary artist; drums; recorder
• Mason Williams – primary artist; guitar; horn
• Clinton Gregory – cello
• Jackson Berkey – keyboards
• Ron Cooley – guitar; electric guitar; rhythm guitar
• Chip Davis – drums; recorder; baton
• Bob Jenkins – oboe
• Deborah Fuller – violin
• Joey Gulizia – percussion
• Eric Hansen – bass
• David Low – cello
• Roxanne Adams – violin
• Grace Granata – violin
• David Kappy – French horn
• Richard Lohmann – violin
• Bill Ritchie – double bass
• Bill Erickson – accordion
• Sherrie Goeden – viola
• Joshua Kuhl – double bass
• Michelle Mathewson – viola
• Arthur McCann – saxophone
• Jim Schanilec – trombone
• Scott Shoemaker – violin
• David Wampler – trombone
• Candida Wiley – violin
• Margaret Wilmeth – cello
• Bochmann String Quartet – group

Technical Credits

• Mason Williams – composer; liner notes
• Mannheim Steamroller – contributor
• Chip Davis – director; producer; contributor; orchestration
• Clete Baker – mastering
• John Boyd – engineer
• Joe Gastwirt – mastering
• Howie Weinberg – mastering
• Steve Shipps – contributor
• Dick Lewsey – engineer

In popular culture

• The title track was featured in "The Great Crane Robbery", a 2000 episode of Frasier. When Frasier's new boss copies his apartment down to the last detail, Frasier tries redecorating, and the song plays over a montage of him trying a long series of ridiculous styles of décor.
• The title track appeared in S1:E5 "Fork" of Netflix's limited series, "The Queen's Gambit."
• The title track was briefly featured in S5:E8 “Marco Polo” of HBO’s “The Sopranos.”

External links

• Classical Gas at AllMusic
• Classical Gas at Discogs