Expert: David Froom - 7/26/2007

Question
I was told that someone put words to Minuet in G. Can you tell me the name of that song and who sang it?

Answer
This is the Minuet in G from the Anna Magdalena Bach collection, not Beethoven's.  It was turned into a pop song called "The Lover's Concerto."  It was done by a group called "The Toys," and was a hit song in the mid 1960s.  They changed the time signature, so it really isn't a minuet any more, but the melody is exactly the same.  They use only the first half of the minuet.

Here is a Wikipedia article about it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Lover%27s_Concerto

David Froom