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A Fifth of Beethoven. " A Fifth of Beethoven " is a disco instrumental recorded by Walter Murphy and the Big Apple Band, adapted from the first movement of Ludwig van Beethoven 's Symphony No. 5. The record was produced by production music and sound effects recording producer Thomas J. Valentino. [4] The "Fifth" in the song's title is a pun ...
- "California Strut"
- 1976
- 3:02
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A single made in 1976 by Walter Murphy and The Big Apple Band, later included in the soundtrack of the 1977 movie Saturday Night Fever.. “A Fifth of Beethoven” is a disco instrumental based ...
Born in New York, Walter studied jazz and classical piano at the Manhattan School of Music, and had a dream of bringing pop and the classics together, a dream made real when he retooled Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 in C Minor to a disco rhythm.
The rattle that starts shaking up the mix around the one-minute mark was created using a vibraslap, a popular percussive sound of the '70s in tunes like "Sweet Emotion" and " Fame ." Barry from Sauquoit, Ny On September 25th 1976, Walter Murphy* and the Big Apple Band performed "A Fifth of Beethoven" on the ABC-TV program 'American Bandstand'...
