Washington Square (composition)

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"Washington Square"
Washington Square cover.jpg
Single by The Village Stompers
from the album The Original Washington Square
B-side "Turkish Delight"
Released23 August 1963 [1]
Recorded1963
Genre Pop, Dixieland jazz, instrumental
Length2:42
Label Epic
Songwriter(s) Bobb Goldsteinn, David Shire
Producer(s) Joe Sherman
The Village Stompers singles chronology
"Washington Square"
(1963)
"The La-Dee Da Song"
(1964)

"Washington Square" is a popular instrumental from 1963 by the New York City-based jazz group The Village Stompers. The composition was written by Bobb Goldsteinn and David Shire. [2]

Contents

Background

The composition is named after the famous park in New York City. [3]

Chart performance

"Washington Square" was a hit single, reaching No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the week ending 23 November 1963, [4] kept from the summit of the Billboard Hot 100 by Dale and Grace's hit song "I'm Leaving It Up to You". [5] "Washington Square" did, however, top the Billboard Easy Listening chart for three weeks that November [3] and made the top 30 on the Billboard R&B chart. [6] In Canada it was No. 5 for 2 weeks. [7] It reached #3 on the Lever Hit Parade in New Zealand [8]

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:

In Asia:

See also

References

  1. "The Village Stompers: Washington Square". www.45cat.com. Retrieved 19 July 2020.
  2. "Song: Washington Square written by Bobb Goldstein, David Shire | SecondHandSongs". SecondHandSongs.
  3. 1 2 3 Hyatt, Wesley (1999). The Billboard Book of #1 Adult Contemporary Hits (Billboard Publications)
  4. Whitburn, Joel (1996). The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, 6th Edition (Billboard Publications)
  5. "Billboard Hot 100 (Week of November 23rd, 1963)". Billboard . 2013-01-02. Retrieved 2023-06-22.
  6. Whitburn, Joel (2004). Top R&B/Hip-Hop Singles: 1942-2004. Record Research. p. 604.
  7. "CHUM Hit Parade - November 18, 1963".
  8. https://web.archive.org/web/20210208152656/http://www.flavourofnz.co.nz/index.php?qpageID=Lever%20hit%20parades&qyear=1963&qmonth=Nov&qweek=21-Nov-1963#n_view_location
  9. ASCAP. "ACE Title Search." http://www.ascap.com/index.aspx Note: must enter song info @ ASCAP site
  10. "정시스터즈 워싱턴광장 1965". YouTube.[ dead YouTube link ]
  11. "【一日一經典】廣東話歌神許冠傑:命裏有時終須有 - 明周娛樂". 明周娛樂 (in Chinese). 2017-09-06. Retrieved 2018-06-02.[ dead link ]