is it a rumour that clapton ever recorded this. he doesnt hav an album with it...i read somewhere that he never actaully played the song and its a huge rumour that he had anything to do with it is this true, i do hav a copy of the song that says the artist is clapton but and i hav seen tabs on the internet but ...i hav never herd of the date or time at which he recorded this. the one that everyone thinks is clapton i bleive is actually mason williams but an acoustic recording of it.
$MAX$
http://www.classicalgas.com/record.html
thats proof to back it up to--scroll down to classical gas recorded by other artists you will not find clapton...and that is mason williams official page...
it probably got messed up because when mason recorded the all acoustic version that everyone thinks is erics it was for a movie that eric recorded all the other music for so everyone must hav just assumed it was erics
this is off look at the second recording....wat it says about clapton
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0000005MN/002-7472480-9211269?v=glance
The song Classical Gas, by Mason Williams, has been recorded dozens of times. Mason Williams has recorded at least three different versions himself, so it's not too surprising that many people end up buying something different than they expected. Here is a list of some of the more notable versions:
Title: Classical Gas
Performer: Mason Williams
Album: The Mason Williams Phonograph Record
Year: 1968
Comment: This is the original hit you have heard on the radio many times.
Title: Classical Gas
Performer: Mason Williams
Album: Handmade
Year: 1970
Comment: This superb acoustic version is my favorite. It also appears on the 1999 "The Story of Us" soundtrack. Many MP3 files circulating the Internet incorrectly credit this version to Eric Clapton.
Title: Classical Gas
Performer: Chet Atkins
Album: Street Dreams
Year: 1986
Comment: Features acoustic and electric guitar, violin, and flute - an interesting listen.
Title: Classical Gas
Performer: Mason Williams and Mannheim Steamroller
Album: Classical Gas
Year: 1987
Comment: This is the album shown above and is good if you like Mannheim Steamroller, but it does not contain the original Classical Gas recording that most people want.
Title: Classical Gas
Performer: Vanessa-Mae
Album: The Violin Player
Year: 1995
Comment: Very nice cover with violin as the lead instrument.
Title: Classical Gas
Performer: California Guitar Trio
Album: Pathways
Year: 1998
Comment: Impressive.
Title: Classical Gas
Performer: Zoe McCulloch
Album: Gypsy Noodle
Year: 2004
Comment: Electric guitar version by a brilliant young player. This album features several compositions by Mason Williams.
this is crazy news i always thought it was claptons version!!!!
$MAX$
ive never heard of anything like that. Maybe you can check an official clapton discography?
i checked the clapton discography its on none of his albums...he for sure never recorded the song...
$MAX$
another thing that fueled that rumor over the years is that people mislabled the recording when sharing the file on various P2P programs. thousands of file sharers over the years have spied the "clapton " version and passed it on to others.
#4491....
Yup, it's not true. We talked about this a few months ago actually. People heard some great guitar, and went "clapton" , renamed the file, it spread. Now everyone thinks it's actually Clapton.
amazing....i only found out about it when i was putting the song on my ipod and i wanted to find out wat album it was on.....so i checked amazon....and what do you no? all these years lol.....crazy
$MAX$
we all know its masons song dude.....its just that most people thought that clapton re-recoreded the song into the one you hear most frequently the only acoustic...thas where we were mistaken...it was also masons recording
$MAX$
I must have been drinking in the wrong pub - I've never, ever, heard any rumour that EC recorded "Classical Gas". To be honest, it's about the last thing that I would expect him to record.
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First time I've ever heard that one too.
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I didn't notice Tommy Emmanuel in that last of people which have played the song. His version is breath taking.
