Saturday morning from 9 to noon Casey Kasem takes us back to the summer of 1976 for American Top 40 the 70’s. It’s where I found today’s Forgotten 45 at 3:45, classical disco from Walter Murphy & The Big Apple Band “A Fifth of Beethoven”!
The song is adapted from Beethoven’s Symphony #5, released in ’76 the song debuted on the charts at #80 and 19 weeks later topped the Billboard Pop chart.
That year Walter was writing a disco song for a commercial when a producer suggested “updating classical music…which nobody had done lately”. The song became a smash hit and in 1977 was licensed to RSO Records for inclusion on the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack.
Check out the Midnight Special performance of “A Fifth of Beethoven” today’s Forgotten 45!
