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I am looking for popular music (i.e songs from 1950 or later) that use classical music as their tunes

Any SONGS that are based on or use classical music as their tunes or starting points. I have a number already but I am trying to get an albums worth of good ones together. So as not to waste your time, the ones I have already are: I'm always chasing rainbows,This night, If I had words, All by myself, Oh Melancholia,

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elly2222 | 3 years, 4 months ago
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Emerson Lake and Palmer "The Barbarian"

Nas "I Know I Can"

Sting, "Russians"

Phil Collins "Groovy Kind of Love"

Stranger in Paradise

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teff torbes | 3 years, 4 months ago
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I've heard numerous songs that use the tune to Pachabel's Canon to some extent or another.

Trans Siberian Orchestra isn't only christmas music. They have one album which is not - it's called Beethoven's Last Night, and it is more like a rock opera. In it are a lot of songs that take famaliar themes and melodies from Beethoven's music - probably half of the songs aren't totally original, and there are a couple medleys:
http://www.amazon.com/Beethovens-Last-Night-Trans-Siberian-Orchestra/dp/B00004S7LI


The introduction to The Divine Wings of Tragedy by Symphony X is Holst's Mars - it's a good rendition of it, too:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-mr9TAKMzU&feature=related
I will note that it wouldn't fit well on a mixed CD, because the song is a ~25 minute long metal song. While after the introduction it doesn't really revisit the Mars theme much, there are some other melodic similarities through some parts of the song.

I don't really have any pop music to mention, but I'm sure someone else can chime in on that stuff.

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nycteris | 3 years, 4 months ago
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First one I thought of was "Rhapsody in the Rain" by Lou Christie, inspired by Tchaikovsky's "Romeo and Juliet"

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