I know you were making a joke, but seriously, I can’t hear Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and not think of A Clockwork Orange.
And thanks to another Kubrick film, Shostakovich’s Waltz No. 2 will forever in my brain be the song from Eye’s Wide Shut.
Not ruined, but it’s impossible for me to hear Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believin’” without thinking of Meadow parallel parking, onion rings (Holsten’s, best in the state) and some guy in a Members Only jacket walking out of the john.
I can’t hear “Vesti la giubba” from Pagliacci without thinking of “invest in a tuba and somethin’ or other 'bout Cuba”.
Also, I can’t hear Marillion’s “Lavender Blue” without thinking of Angus Deayton in the TV show Nighty Night.
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Sherman also did a number on Brahms’s “Hungarian Dance #5”:
Indeed, @hogarth! And here’s another pop song that Julia Davis has left her indelible mark on (from Sally4Ever):
And Grieg’s “Norwegian Dance No. 2”:
Ludwig von Drake’s songs were pretty much written by the Sherman brothers. They’re cute, but not classics. – “Ludwig von Drake, that’s me!” and “The Spectrum Song”
(There are other von Drake songs, sung by the immortal Paul Frees, but I haven’t heard 'em.)
I’m sure you recognize this lovely melody as “Stranger in Paradise.” But did you know that the original theme is from the Polovetsian Dance No. 2 by Borodin?
Those of us of a certain age will recognize that question.
And it was the second Mr. French who said them.
Am I the only one who keeps thinking this thread is about music ruined by The Association?
Just the way he wanted it!
I bet you were just mad that no one made barber chairs go up to the ceiling.
God, I am so old!
A couple years ago, shortly before Russia invaded Ukraine, I posted my feelings on Borodin’s expansionist Russian propaganda in the Prince Igor overture and forebodings about the invasion. But everyone else only wanted to recall the old Longines Symphonette record commercial, or whatever that was, for the “Polovtsian Dances.” Et voilà: another classic ruined all to heck.
In 2013 I walked down the aisle to “Ride of the Valkyries.” My husband thought it was great. The guests were confused at first but got on board pretty quickly. Our stroll back up the aisle as a married couple was to “The Liberty Bell March.”
Was that on the SDMB? Tell me I wasn’t one of the jackasses!
Similarly in 2008, Putin celebrated eating Ossetia with a performance of Shostakovich’s Leningrad Symphony. And NPR, to its shame, played it.
I have a Mike Oldfield bootleg with a track of him on a radio show complaining that kids are scared of him because of that. And someone reported that years after the movie came out Mike finally watched it “and laughed his head off.”
Spike ruined a lot of classical songs. Long before Stan Freberg used the William Tell Overture (as mentioned above) in the Pizza Rolls commercial, Spike used it for a horse race - won by Beeblebaum. Later, Dance of the Hours, for the Indy 500 race, also won by
Beeblebaum