Washington Square (composition)
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Background
The composition is named after the famous park in New York City.[2]
Chart performance
"Washington Square" was a hit single, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the week ending 23 November 1963,[3] kept from the summit of the Billboard Hot 100 by Dale and Grace's hit song "I'm Leaving It Up to You".[4] "Washington Square" did, however, top the Billboard Easy Listening chart for three weeks that November[2] and made the top 30 on the Billboard R&B chart.[5] In Canada it was No. 5 for 2 weeks.[6]
Accolades
In addition, the instrumental was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category Best Instrumental Theme.
Other recordings
Other artists have recorded the tune, sometimes with song lyrics. Among these acts are:
- The Ames Brothers 1963 (without Ed Ames; their last national chart record)
- The Kirby Stone Four 1963
- Lawrence Welk 1963
- Kenny Ball 1963
- Spike Jones 1963
- Kai Winding 1963
- Sammy Kaye & His Orchestra 1964
- Andre Kostelanetz 1964
- Billy Vaughn 1964
- Glenn Miller Orchestra 1965
- Marilyn Maye 1965
- The Dukes of Dixieland 1968
- James Last 1970
- Percy Faith 1974
- The Ventures 1980
- Nightmares on Wax 1999
- Chinese Man 2006.[2][7]
In Asia:
- The South Korean female vocalist band Lee Sisters released a recording of this tune.[8]
- Another South Korean group, named Key Boys, also released a recording of this tune under the title "미소 （微笑）(Washington Square)" in 1964.
- The Hong Kong Cantopop artist Samuel Hui also released a recording of the tune in Cantonese, titled Template:Lang-zh for the film The Contract, with new lyrics exhorting boys to be studious.[9]
Popular culture
- The tune was also featured as a very important plot piece in the 2020 Stephen King HBO drama The Outsider.
See also
References
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- ↑ Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
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