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The Video recording came from an Australian TV Show “Digby Wolf Show“ - I stand corrected. These were the regular Dancers from the Light Entertainment Show and I was lucky to see the Quartet in Adelaide in the early 1960’s at Centennial Hall. / Mike McInerney ‘Unsquare Dance’ was released in 1961 as part of the Dave Brubeck’s “Time Further Out” album. This record enjoyed high sales, reaching #8 in the Billboard charts, the de facto measure of popularity used by the record industry at the time. Regarding the elements of music, the piece most compelling attractiveness lies in its unusual rhythmic structure: a fast, “un-square” metre (three-time with a longer final beat) is accentuated throughout the track by the plucked double-bass with a recurring three-note interval. The second foundation brick in the rhythm is a syncopated pattern of hand-clapping. This rhythmic base, albeit rather thin in texture, manages to sound rich, instantly appealing and memorable.
