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"Joy" is a 1971 instrumental pop hit record by Apollo 100. It is a contemporary rendition of a 1723 composition by Johann Sebastian Bach entitled "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring", shortened to simply "Joy". [1] [2] [3] It reached number 6 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 in January 1972 and
Parker formed Apollo 100 in the latter part of 1971 with fellow session musicians drummer Clem Cattini, guitarist Vic Flick, guitarist Zed Jenkins, percussionist Jim Lawless, and bassist Brian Odgers. [1] In December 1971, they released their first single, "Joy", an electrified arrangement by Clive Scott of Bach's "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring".
"Joy", a 1972 instrumental by Apollo 100, which reached number six on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 and number 24 in the RPM Canadian chart [10] "Precious Joy" on the 1973 album Blues on Bach by the Modern Jazz Quartet "Dreams of You", a 1975 single by Ralph McTell which reached the top 40 of the UK Singles Chart [11] [12]
The music of the chorale movements is now best known for the piano transcription by Dame Myra Hess of Hugh P. Allen's choral version of Bach's arrangement, and is notable under the title Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, [28] an inexact translation that transforms the original affirmation ("Jesus remains my joy") into a wish. [29]
Jesu (band), a British experimental band formed by Justin Broadrick Jesu, a 2004 album by the band Jesu "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring", final movement of Johann Sebastian Bach's Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147; Jesu, der du meine Seele, BWV 78, cantata by Bach "Jesu, meine Freude", hymn by Johann Franck
Joy of Man's Desiring (French: Que ma joie demeure) is a 1936 novel by the French writer Jean Giono.The story takes place in an early 20th-century farmer's community in southern France, where the inhabitants suffer from a mysterious disease, while a healer tries to save them by teaching the value of joy.
The original cut opened on an establishing shot of a tree in a grassy field, that served as an unmarked burial ground for enslaved Africans in North America and underscored "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring" [a] in organ to sound like a funeral, but after the shot was replaced, Abels composed a theme similar to that piece which was a series of downward triplets composed by using French horn.
The same hymn melody was assigned to the song "Jesu, meiner Seelen Wonne" written by Martin Janus (or Jahn). [4] Bach used it in the Leipzig version of his cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147. [5] It became famous as the arrangement Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring. [5]