Peter & the Wolf ("Weird Al" Yankovic & Wendy Carlos album) Peter & the Wolf ("Weird Al" Yankovic & Wendy Carlos album) Peter & the Wolf/Carnival of the Animals – Part II is a studio album by American parody singer-songwriter and musician "Weird Al" Yankovic and composer and keyboardist Wendy Carlos, released in October 1988 on CBS Records. It features a comical adaptation of the orchestral works "Peter and the Wolf" by Sergei Prokofiev and "The Carnival of the Animals" by Camille Saint-Saëns. The album was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Album for Children at the 31st awards. Carlos was invited by CBS Records to work on the project
The Carnival Is Over de Oever van de Rotte". It is played in a cafe scene in the 1988 film "The Unbearable Lightness of Being". Tom Springfield adapted the melody from the Russian folk song, and also wrote the lyrics, after a trip to Brazil, where he witnessed the Carnival in Rio. The melody is played repeatedly in an early episode of TV series "The Twilight Zone" – Season 1 Episode 3, entitled "Mr. Denton On Doomsday", first aired in 1959. The playing of "The Carnival Is Over", sung by The Seekers, has been sometimes used at the close of special events in Australia.