KANON UND GIGUE FUR DREI VIOLINEN UND GENERALBASS IN D DUR

Created on 11/08/2004
Latest update on 12/02/2024

Artist: Johann Pachelbel
Author: Johann Pachelbel
Year: 1680s

Best known as Pachelbel's Canon in D. (1653-1706)

Covers:

1920:

George Winston

1968:

Aphrodite's Child [in Rain And Tears]

1968:

Pop Tops [in Oh Lord, Why Lord, later also covered by Jim Capaldi ('89)]

1970:

Parliament [as Oh Lord Why Lord]

1971:

Rod McKuen [as And To Each Season (A Fugue for Pachelbel's Canon)]

1972:

Brook Benton [as Oh Lord, Why Lord]

1973:

Michel Sardou [in La Maladie d'Amour]

1982:

Fleetwood Mac [at the beginning and at the end of Eyes Of The World from their lp Mirage]

1990:

Farm [foundation of All Together Now; lyrics refer to that famous Christmas truce soccer game between German and British soldiers in the no man's land between their trenches in Flanders' fields on Christmas day 1914]

1993:

Eileen Ivers [as Pachelbel's Frolics]

1997:

Coolio [in C U When U Get There]

1998:

Helmut Lotti [as Love Is Life]

2000:

Vitamin C [in Graduation (Friends Forever); hit US, Can, Aus]

2003:

Ezio Bosso [as Per Volare (Danza 10) in film Io Non Ho Paura]

2004:

Farm feat. The S.F.X. Boys Choir Liverpool [as All Together Now; official English soccer anthem for Euro 2004 in Portugal; DJ Spoony remix]

2009:

Hiromi [as Pachelbel's Canon; Japanese original pianist on cd Place To Be]

The same chord scheme was used in Walk Hand In Hand (see there), Let It Be Me (Je t'appartiens), Spicks And Specks, Don't Sleep In The Subway, With Or Without You, Don't Look Back In Anger, Go West (see there) and Streets Of London. Also in commercials for wine, wool and gas.

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