Australian singles chart:
Take Five entered the Kent charts on 28 October 1961 and it peaked at #7. It was #57 on the Top 100 of 1961.
Album:
Take Five is on the Dave Brubeck Quartet album Time Out which charted in Australia in 1960.
Composer:
Paul Desmond
Producer:
Teo Macero
Record label of Australian release:
Coronet
Live in Belgium in 1964:
Wikipedia:
The jazz standard Take Five was composed by Paul Desmond, alto saxophonist in the Dave Brubeck Quartet. It was first recorded by the quartet in 1959 but didn’t chart straight away. Frequently covered by a variety of artists, the track is the biggest-selling jazz song of all time and a Grammy Hall of Fame inductee.
Take Five was written after the Quartet’s drummer, Joe Morello, requested a song in quintuple (5/4) meter. Desmond composed the melodies on Morello’s rhythms while Brubeck arranged the song. The track’s name is derived from its meter.
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