Mason Williams

Person · Open Library

Born

1938

Works

14

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1932-02-08

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

140,864

Total plays

787,833

Mason Williams (August 24, 1938 in Abilene, Texas) is an American guitarist and composer, best known for his popular guitar instrumental "Classical Gas". Williams wrote for the Smothers Brothers show and is also an eclectic poet and lyricist. Mason Williams emerged in the late 1960s as a strong force in television and music circles. In 1968 he won two Grammy awards for his unique composition for guitar, "Classical Gas". That same year he also won an Emmy award for his work as a comedy writer on

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. The PHQ-9

   · 2001 · cited 39,523x

2. Upper Echelons: The Organization as a Reflection of Its Top Managers

   · 1984 · cited 33,988x

3. A Brief Measure for Assessing Generalized Anxiety Disorder

   · 2006 · cited 28,978x

4. Learning representations by back-propagating errors

   · 1986 · cited 24,411x

5. Geant4—a simulation toolkit

   · 2003 · cited 21,302x

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