“Canon Rock” is a rock arrangement of Johann Pachelbel’s Canon in D major by the Taiwanese musician and composer Jerry Chang (JerryC). The song became popular on the internet after a video of JerryC’s playing the song was posted online. The rendition has been featured on newspapers, magazines, and television shows. Canon Rock has been covered many times on various internet communities such as YouTube.com and Google Video. The arrangement was composed within two weeks.
The most famous of the covers is by a South Korean guitarist named Jeong-Hyun Lim, who is more popularly known by his internet alias, “funtwo”. funtwo’s video is the fourth most viewed video in YouTube.com history with 11,664,072 views, The first most viewed music video all time, the second most top rated, the second most discussed all time and second most favorite all time as of the 30th of November, 2006.
Some of the covers are even done on other instruments aside from the guitar, such as the violin and piano. Covers of Canon Rock can be found on JerryC’s website.
Hilarious Canon in D Cola ad for World Cup 2006
The song has been used as the theme of a Korean film, The Classic（假如愛有天意 in Chinese), and a variation written for piano also appears in another popular Korean movie, My Sassy Girl, starring Jun Ji-Hyun. Both movies were directed by Kwak Jae-Yong. A music video made to Alan Silvestri’s, “Pachelbel Cannon.” This was the favorite song of Jun Ji-Hyun’s character in the movie.
Remember this song? It was a hit in spring 2000.
It’s the ‘Graduation Song’ (or Friends Forever, whatever you wanna call it) by Vitamin C. You should watch this!
The Bravo All Stars were a Pop supergroup, who came together for a once-off single titled “Let The Music Heal Your Soul”. The group is named after a German publication called BRAVO, which is one of the world’s best-selling youth magazines.
The band consisted of: Touché, The Boyz, Caught in the Act, The Moffatts, Scooter, Aaron Carter, the Backstreet Boys, Mr. President, ‘N Sync, Squeezer, Blümchen, R’N'G and Gil.
“Let The Music Heal Your Soul” was released as a single on 18 May 1998. The idea behind it was conceived by Alex Christensen, to benefit charity. The lyrics were written by Christensen, and Frank Peterson arranged and composed the music. Each artist took turns singing two lines from each verse, while all of the singers sang the chorus together.
The Pachelbel canon may represent the most extraordinary instance of the crossover phenomenon in all of music. During a short period in the early 1970s it went from being a quite obscure work of early music to a universally familiar cultural item[citation needed]. It was played in countless versions in its original notes and instrumentation, as well as in arrangements for other instruments and in adaptations into other musical genres. The process shows no sign of abating.
Source: Wikipedia
Post a Comment