trivial help (pop song from classical source)

[acroyear]

Some sappy pop song from the early 70s, I think by the Carpenters, has as it's chorus the main melody theme from Rachmaninov's 2nd Symphony, 3rd movement.  However, my limited memory of the lyric (hey, i was 4 at the time and it doesn't get repeated all that often, even on XM's 70s channel) has me at a loss for exactly what song it was...

can anybody help?

Update: it was the 3rd movement, not the 4th.  on my cd, movement 1 takes up 2 tracks and the track in question was track 4.

Update 2: they (the classical music group) found it.

LJ Knows Good Music - trivial help (pop song from classical source):

Does it happen to be "Never Gonna Fall In Love Again" by Eric Carmen? All-powerful Wikipedia says it's based on Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_popular_songs_based_on_classical_music

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[capi.livejournal.com]

Hummmmmm.....

I am thoroughly familiar with the Carpenters work, but not with Rachmaninov. How can i know? Can you send me a wav of a little of it??

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

working on it. i don't have the software here to break it up so i'm putting an mp3 out.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

well, it's been found (see my edited post), but here's the piece anyways. i'll leave this up for a day.

http://www.feedmixer.net/scratch/tmp/

There's only one file in there.

[capi.livejournal.com]

Ok, got it. It will take over two hours to download, tho, so don't wait up!! *grin*

Meanwhile, is it possible for you to hunt online and see if "Intermission" is on there for you to hear? The album i referred to for the song is "A Song For You", if that helps any....

[capi.livejournal.com]

OOOooohhhh.... you already found it?? I missed that. In that case, i'll stop downloading this other file, k? *L* It slows everything down.

*think*

"Never Gonna Fall in Love Again"?? Are you sure? The Carpenters have a song called "I'll never fall in love again".... Hmmmm.... it's not on the two Carpenters cd's i can handily put my hands on, but that's ok. I see you are thinking this song is NOT by them, tho, yes? Gotcha.

The Carpenters were foundational in my learning to sing and in building a personal singing style. They and Streisand, actually.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

That's why I originally thought it was the Carpenters, 'cause I knew they had a song of that title. A little googling showed that song is by Burt Bacharach and the lyric doesn't fit the Rachmaninov melody at all.

Wikipedia definitely says the song is based on the symphony, and another song from the same album, "All By Myself", is based on a Rachmaninov piano concerto. Obviously, *somebody* was in a mood when they went to write for that album...

[capi.livejournal.com]

The thing that first popped into my mind, without knowing the piece to which you refer, is a song that they titled "Intermission".

It's wonderful classical music opens the scene, and the two of them, in the most amusing of ways, sing a very simple song.....

"We'll be right back.... after we go to the bathroom!"