Hooked on Classics

Hooked on Classics was a series of record albums first introduced in 1981, toward the end of the disco era's peak in popularity.

Louis Clark, former arranger for Electric Light Orchestra, conducted the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra playing a collection of very recognizable extracts from classical music pieces played over a continuous beat (sometimes an overtly disco fast beat, sometimes a slower and more subtle rhythm produced by a LinnDrum on the first and third albums and live drummers on the second album) that linked the segments together. This is called the Symphonic Rock or Orchestrated Rock genre, like London Symphony Orchestra did in its Classic Rock series but with less electronic effects.

Hooked On Classics Vol.1

01.Hooked On Classics, parts 1 & 2
02.Hooked On Romance
03.Hooked On Classics part 3
04.Hooked On Bach
05.Hooked On Tchaikofsky
06.Hooked On Song
07.Hooked On Mozart
08.Hooked On Mendelssohn
09.Hooked On a CAN CAN

Hooked On Classics Vol.2

01.Can't Stop The Classics
02.Hooked On America
03.Hooked On Romance (Part 2)
04.Can't Stop The Classics (Part 2)
05.A Night At The Opera
06.Tales Of The Vienna Waltz
07.Hooked On Baroque
08.If You Knew Souza
09.If You Knew Souza (And Friends)