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Did you know that Rachmaninoff and Erik Carmen share songwriting credit for "All By Myself"? Or that "Whiter Shade of Pale" owes quite a bit to Bach? Have you also noticed that hip-hop seems to be obsessed with both the Carmina Burana and Pachelbel's Canon, and that even the mild-mannered John Denver stole from Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5 to write "Annie's Song"? Hear classical music worm its way into pop radio with this first installment of Pop Goes Classical.