The Yeomen of the Guard: Overture

Pro Arte Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent

4 cited facts

1987
5:31

What connects this song

Credits it shares with other songs, each from a cited source. Tap a number or a name.

Released on EMI, also Karma Police (Radiohead), Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen) and Paranoid Android (Radiohead)
Written by Arthur Sullivan, also The Mikado: “A wand’ring minstrel I” (D’Oyly Carte Opera Chorus), The Mikado: The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring, Tra La (D’Oyly Carte Opera Chorus) and The Mikado: So Please You, Sir, We Much Regret (D’Oyly Carte Opera Chorus)

Worth knowing

Counted from cited credits on fono.

Arthur Sullivan wrote 5 of Pro Arte Orchestra’s top 10 songs
Arthur Sullivan wrote 194 songs on fono
Arthur Sullivan’s most frequent co-writer is W.S. Gilbert (165 songs together)
Arthur Sullivan first appears on fono in 1959, 28 years before this song

Credits

All 3 credits

Written by: Arthur Sullivan
Part of: The Yeomen of the Guard (Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, Pro Arte Orchestra feat. conductor: Sir Malcolm Sargent)
Released on: EMI

Written by: Arthur Sullivan
Part of: The Yeomen of the Guard (Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, Pro Arte Orchestra feat. conductor: Sir Malcolm Sargent)
Released on: EMI

Other songs that share a producer, writer, studio or label with this one.

Same writer: Arthur Sullivan
The Mikado: “A wand’ring minstrel I”
D’Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Colin Wright, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash, The D’Oyly Carte Opera Company
1973
Same label: EMI
Karma Police
Radiohead
1997
Same writer: Arthur Sullivan
The Mikado: The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring, Tra La
D’Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Peggy Ann Jones, Valerie Masterson, John Reed, Kenneth Sandford, Colin Wright, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
1973
Same label: EMI
Bohemian Rhapsody
Queen
1975
Same writer: Arthur Sullivan
The Mikado: So Please You, Sir, We Much Regret
D’Oyly Carte Opera Chorus, Peggy Ann Jones, Valerie Masterson, Kenneth Sandford, Pauline Wales, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Royston Nash
1973
Same label: EMI
Paranoid Android
Radiohead
1997

Elsewhere

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1MusicBrainz The Yeomen of the Guard: Overture was written by Arthur Sullivan
The Yeomen of the Guard: Overture was written by Arthur Sullivan
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2MusicBrainz The Yeomen of the Guard: Overture is part of the release The Yeomen of the Guard (Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, Pro Arte Orchestra feat. conductor: Sir Malcolm Sargent)
The Yeomen of the Guard: Overture is part of the release The Yeomen of the Guard (Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, Pro Arte Orchestra feat. conductor: Sir Malcolm Sargent)
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3MusicBrainz EMI is the label of the song The Yeomen of the Guard: Overture
EMI is the label of the song The Yeomen of the Guard: Overture
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4MusicBrainz The Yeomen of the Guard: Overture was released on 1987
The Yeomen of the Guard: Overture was released on 1987
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