Classical Gas (Mason Williams and Mannheim Steamroller album)

Classical Gas is a 1987 album by new age group Mannheim Steamroller and guitarist/composer Mason Williams. The album's title piece, "Classical Gas", was originally featured on Williams's 1968 solo album The Mason Williams Phonograph Record.

Performance Credits

 * Mannheim Steamroller – primary artist; drums; recorder
 * Mason Williams – primary artist; guitar; horn
 * Clinton Gregory – cello
 * Jackson Berkey – keyboards
 * Ron Cooley – guitar; electric guitar; rhythm guitar
 * Chip Davis – drums; recorder; baton
 * Bob Jenkins – oboe
 * Deborah Fuller – violin
 * Joey Gulizia – percussion
 * Eric Hansen – bass
 * David Low – cello
 * Roxanne Adams – violin
 * Grace Granata – violin
 * David Kappy – French horn
 * Richard Lohmann – violin
 * Bill Ritchie – double bass
 * Bill Erickson – accordion
 * Sherrie Goeden – viola
 * Joshua Kuhl – double bass
 * Michelle Mathewson – viola
 * Arthur McCann – saxophone
 * Jim Schanilec – trombone
 * Scott Shoemaker – violin
 * David Wampler – trombone
 * Candida Wiley – violin
 * Margaret Wilmeth – cello
 * Bochmann String Quartet – group

Technical Credits

 * Mason Williams – composer; liner notes
 * Mannheim Steamroller – contributor
 * Chip Davis – director; producer; contributor; orchestration
 * Clete Baker – mastering
 * John Boyd – engineer
 * Joe Gastwirt – mastering
 * Howie Weinberg – mastering
 * Steve Shipps – contributor
 * Dick Lewsey – engineer

In popular culture

 * The title track was featured in "The Great Crane Robbery", a 2000 episode of Frasier. When Frasier's new boss copies his apartment down to the last detail, Frasier tries redecorating, and the song plays over a montage of him trying a long series of ridiculous styles of décor.
 * The title track appeared in S1:E5 "Fork" of Netflix's limited series, "The Queen's Gambit."
 * The title track was briefly featured in S5:E8 “Marco Polo” of HBO’s “The Sopranos.”