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Eine Kleine Nachtmusik Cha Cha Cha

You know, it is a curious thing, all the many many years we have been working together, Donald and I, on this songwriting lark, we have never actually had a song in the hit parade. Not in the top ten, anyway. We did have one in the bottom five. We cannot think why this is, as old Vincent Van Swann here and I have made quite a study of music during the two years we spent in a hospital near Arles trying to find out what it is that makes - (to DS) you know what the chap said when he undid the packet?
DS: No
MF: He said what's this ear. We've tried to find out what makes a hit a hit. What is it that distinguishes a hit from good music. Well, this undoubtedly is just get hold of a really catch tune, preferably a tune everybody knows already. Well, Swann set to and after a great deal of research he's ended up with the most fantastic tune, a tune I know is going straight to the top of the hit parade, a tune which he has plage - er - adapted from the works of - who was it?
DS: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
MF: Mozart, yes. He's doing very well in europe just at the moment, don't you know. Carriage trade stuff, mostly. I've set some words to this, and it goes like this:


Just a little music in the night
Makes me want to hold my baby tight
Mister Mozart play that melody;
Eine kleine nachtmusic for me.


Originally from the album 'Tried by the Centre Court'.