Music You Can't Get Out of Your Head is recording of the music by Peter Schickele

Peter Schickele

Johann Peter Schickele is an American composer, musical educator, and parodist. He is best known for his comedy music albums featuring his music that he presents as music written by the fictional composer P. D. Q...

 writing as P. D. Q. Bach

P. D. Q. Bach

P. D. Q. Bach is a fictitious composer invented by musical satirist "Professor" Peter Schickele. In a gag that Schickele has developed over a five-decade-long career, he performs "discovered" works of this forgotten member of the Bach family...

. The album describes itself as "P.D.Q. Bach’s answer to Haydn

Joseph Haydn

Franz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...

’s "Farewell" Symphony

Symphony No. 45 (Haydn)

Symphony No. 45 in F-sharp minor, known as the "Farewell" Symphony , was composed by Joseph Haydn in 1772....

" and includes "all the music from The Civilian Barber that's been discovered." The album was released on Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records

Vanguard Records is a record label set up in 1950 by brothers Maynard and Seymour Solomon in New York. It started as a classical label, but is perhaps best known for its catalogue of recordings by a number of pivotal folk and blues artists from the 1960s; the Bach Guild was a subsidiary...

in 1982.

Performers

• Professor Peter Schickele conducting the New York Pick-Up Ensemble
• Marilyn Brustadt, off-coloratura soprano
• Paul Dunkel and Diva Goodfriend-Koven, pumpflute
• Lauren Goldstein, Bill Becker, and Abdul Falafel, double reed hookah
• Early Anderson, Polizeiposaune (police trombone) and trombonus interruptus

Track listing

"Howdy" Symphony in D major, S. 6 7/8 (P.D.Q. Bach)

1. Introduzione casuale; allegro con mucho brio

2. Andante con mojo

3. Menuetto allegretto

4. Come un pipistrello fuori dall' inferno

5. Perückenstück (Hair Piece) from "The Civilian Barber", S. 4F (P.D.Q. Bach)

6. Suite from "The Civilian Barber", S. 4F (P.D.Q. Bach)

• Entrance of the dragoons (tempo di Marsha)
• Dance of St. Vitus
• His majesty's minuet
• Fanfare for the royal shaft
• Her majesty's minuet
• Departure of the dragoons (tempo di on the double)

Source

• P.D.Q. Bach: Music You Can't Get Out of Your Head