The Mason Williams Phonograph Record

The Mason Williams Phonograph Record
Studio album by Mason Williams
Released	February 1968
Genre	Easy listening, classical, instrumental rock, classical crossover
Length	29:40
Label	Warner Bros. Records
Producer	Mike Post
Mason Williams chronology
The Smothers Brothers Play It Straight (1966) The Mason Williams Phonograph Record (1968) The Mason Williams Ear Show (1968)

The Mason Williams Phonograph Record is an album by classical guitarist and composer Mason Williams (with various accompaniment) released in 1968. It is Williams's most successful and most recognized album, and contains the instrumental "Classical Gas," his best known song. Mason Williams won two Grammy awards, for Best Pop Instrumental Performance and Best Instrumental Theme, and Mike Post won Best Instrumental Arrangement on the song. In Canada, the album reached #16.

Track listing

All tracks are written by Mason Williams, unless otherwise noted. Arranged by Al Capps, except Overture and Classical Gas by Post and Dylan Thomas and Life Song by Williams. The first printing of the vinyl label misspelled The Prince's Panties as "Princess Panties"

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Overture"	Mike Post	1:49
2.	"All the Time"		2:40
3.	"Dylan Thomas"	(Lowell Mason, uncredited – tune of London Bridge is Falling Down)	0:29
4.	"Wanderlove"		3:22
5.	"She's Gone Away"		2:15
6.	"Here Am I"		4:06
7.	"Classical Gas"		3:06
8.	"Long Time Blues"		3:35
9.	"Baroque-a-Nova"	Allan Blye, Williams	2:20
10.	"The Prince's Panties"		1:40
11.	"Life Song"		0:27
12.	"Sunflower"		3:43
Total length:			29:40

Personnel

Musicians

• Mason Williams – main performer and composer, guitar
• Carl Fortina – accordion
• Bob West, Lawrence Knechtel, and Lyle Ritz – bass
• Armand Kaproff, Jerome Kessler, Jesse Ehrlich, and Joe DiTullio – cello
• Lyle Ritz – double bass
• James Beck Gordon – drums
• David Duke and William Hinshaw – French horn, tuben
• Alvin Casey, David Cohen, James Burton, and Michael Deasy – guitar
• Gail Levant – harp
• Gary L. Coleman and Gene Estes – percussion
• Lawrence Knechtel and Michael Melvoin – piano
• Richard J. Hyde, Hoyt Bohannon, Lew McCreary, and Richard Leith – trombone
• David Burk, Emanuel Moss, George Kast, Harry Bluestone, Israel Baker, Jack Gootkin, Jimmy Getzoff, Jerry Reisler, John Vidor, Ralph Schaeffer, Robert Korda, Robert Sushel, Sidney Sharp, Stan Plummer, Tibor Zelig, and William Kurasch – violin
• Jim Horn and Tommy Scott – woodwind

Production

• Mike Post – producer
• Phil Kaye – effects
• Stan Cornyn – liner notes

External links

• The Mason Williams Phonograph Record at AllMusic
• The Mason Williams Phonograph Record at Discogs
• http://www.45worlds.com/vinyl/album/ws1729