1740 and All That

Just for fun, we came up with a playlist for Frederick the Great. This is the popular music version. Operatic/symphonic version to come!

Song	Artist/Other Context	Historical Parallel
"Children's Work"	Dessa	Wilhelmine and Fritz
"December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)"	The Four Seasons	Fritz and Orzelska
"Come Crying to Me"	Lonestar	Teenage Peter Keith to Fritz
"Origin of Love"	Hedwig and the Angry Inch	Fritz/Katte
"You Should See Me in a Crown"	Billie Eilish	Fritz and power
"Devil in Disguise"	Elvis Presley	Europe to Fritz in 1740
"Respect"	Aretha Franklin	Maria Theresia and the War of the Austrian Succession
"Commissioning a Symphony in C"	Cake	Fritz as 18th century monarch
"C'est Moi"	Camelot	Algarotti to Fritz
"You Are a Runner and I Am My Father's Son"	Wolf Parade	Fritz to Heinrich
"The Book of Love"	Peter Gabriel	Fritz/Fredersdorf
"That's All"	Genesis	Fritz/Voltaire
"O Fortuna"1 "O Fortuna"2	Carl Orff	Fritz and the Seven Years' War
"History Repeating"	Shirley Bassey, Propellerheads	Older Maria Theresia
"The Unforgiven Ones"	Crash Test Dummies	Fritz, Heinrich, and realpolitik
"We Don't Need Another Hero"	Tina Turner	MT to Joseph, on Fritz as a role model
"Diamonds and Rust"	Joan Baez	Older Fritz to Voltaire
"Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again"	Jose Carreras	Fritz grieving his dead
"Lazarus"	David Bowie	Fritz dying

¹ Trans-Siberian Orchestra, the one where you can hear the lyrics.
² Berlin Philharmonic, the one without a synthesizer, at cahn's request. ;)

Bonus track: Alexander the Great vs. Ivan the Terrible, from the Epic Rap Battles of History. Despite the name, it includes Ivan the Terrible vs. the "great"s Alexander, Frederick, and Catherine. It's also hilarious, and had to be included even if it didn't fit the playlist. Frederick the Great's part is from 1:43-2:50, though the whole thing is worth listening to.