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Louis Clark Conducting The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra - Hooked On Classics

A weird and inexplicably goofy thing happened in 1981. Disco, made a brief but memorable comeback inside a Trojan Horse containing rearranged versions and snippets of classical pieces mashed together, along side a steady drum beat that never varied or wavered. The album was arranged and conducted by Louis Clark. Yeah, the same Louis Clark who once was an integral part of those early Electric Light Orchestra albums who arranged their strings and stuff. The guy must have fallen on hard times to be sucked into the K-Tel universe. Except this album caught on - all over the world it was a hit, and the single, "Hooked on Classics" was a staple on the radio that summer.  Heck this album's impact is probably what gave birth to the mashup, inspired DJ's to drop their own beat over any existing piece of music, no matter how mundane. All of it, owes a debt of gratitude to the fine folks at K-Tel. We're all poorer for it. Still, there was something oddly wonderful about this ...