Classical Gas
Williams was the head writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour at the time of the piece's release and premiered the composition on the show.After the piece had reached the Top 10, Williams asked an experimental filmmaker named Dan McLaughlin to adjust a student video montage that he had created of classical art works using Beethoven's 5th Symphony and edit it in time to "Classical Gas", using the visual effect now known as kinestasis.This version was re-released by Sony in 2003, after being featured in the film Cheaper by the Dozen, which starred Williams' Smothers Brothers protégé,[7] actor/comedian/musician Steve Martin.Williams’ original version of “Classical Gas” was also used on the soundtrack of the popular 2000 Australian movie The Dish.[8] In the mid-to-late 1970s and early 1980s Williams' version of "Classical Gas" was used by television stations across the United States as their opening news themes.