The band Clap Your Hands Say Yeah has sustained a 16-year career with only one song featuring hand-clapping. William Dart checks out its new album New Fragility and looks music that’s only too happy to enlist this most primal of body percussion.
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Music Details
'Song title' (Composer) – Performers
Album title
(Label)
'I Love Being in Love with You' (Lee, Schluger) – Ella Fitzgerald
Ella in Japan
(Verve)
'Mary Mack' (Trad) – Jessie Lee Pratcher, Mattie Gardener
Sound of the South
(Atlantic)
'Java Jive' (Oakland, Drake) – Manhattan Transfer
Down in Birdland
(Atlantic)
'Just Let Me Cry' (Barkan, Raleigh) – Lesley Gore
The Golden Hits of Lesley Gore
(Mercury)
'Eight Days a Week' (Lennon, McCartney) – The Beatles
Beatles for Sale
(Apple)
'The Clapping Song' (Ellis) – Shirley Ellis
The Clapping Song and More
(Geffen)
'The Weeping Song' (Cave) – Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
The Best of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
(Mure)
'Clap Your Hands' (Ounsworth) – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
(CYHSY)
'Mama won’t you Keep Them Castles in the Air Burning' (Ounsworth) – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Some Loud Thunder
(CYHSY)
'Impossible Request' (Ounsworth) – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
Only Run
(CYHSY)
'Hesitating Nation' (Ounsworth) – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
New Fragility
(CYHSY)
'Innocent Weight' (Ounsworth) – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
New Fragility
(CYHSY)
'Mirror Song' (Ounsworth) – Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
New Fragility
(CYHSY)
