This day in music history.

October 26, 1976, "A Fifth of Beethoven," by 'Walter Murphy's Big Apple Band' goes gold. The albums title track would hit number one on the charts. The song is a disco rendition of Lundwig Beethoven's 'Symphony No. 5 In 'C' Minor'. Murphy studied jazz and classical piano at the Manhattan School of Music and was an arranger for Doc Severinsen and The Tonight Show Orchestra. Murphy played nearly every instrument on the record. The record company decided it would sell better if it was credited to a group rather than an individual. Without asking him they changed his name to Walter Murphy and The Big Apple Band, only to discover two days after its release that there was already a Big Apple Band. The name was changed to The Walter Murphy Band and then to Walter Murphy. His only other pop hit was a disco version of Flight Of The Bubblebee.