Name that classical music update

June 2, 2008 11:35 PM

What is this 70s-sounding instrumental version of Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring?

I've been sorting the music on my computer that got the labeling screwed up on and came across an unnamed track that is definitely a version of Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring (from Bach's cantata 147). It is on what sounds like harpsichord, piano, and a drum kit played with brushes. It's a bit 70s-esque and might actually be from then. I feel like it is from a movie soundtrack, but I'm not even sure what movie.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? Thanks!

posted by fructose to media & arts (5 comments total)

"Joy" by Apollo 100.

From the BOOGIE NIGHTS soundtrack.
posted by paperzach at 11:51 PM on June 2, 2008

That's it! Thanks!!
posted by fructose at 12:25 AM on June 3, 2008

Might I say... bwahaha, thanks askmefi.
posted by phrontist at 12:31 AM on June 3, 2008

Holy shit! I've been looking for this for years! It's in the movie "One day in September" during a montage of the (pre-terrorist-incident) Munich olympics.
posted by claudius at 5:34 AM on June 3, 2008

BTW it was also in the end sequence of the 40 Year-Old Virgin.

I got a kick out of phrontist's link. There was an early-70's cover of Seventeen with Twiggy on the front cover which described "Election Fun with Art Buchwald" inside. Wow. The idea of Art Buchwald in any of the current teenybopper magazines is mind-blowing. How low we've fallen.
posted by Ironmouth at 8:53 AM on June 3, 2008