Dance the Night Away

Writer: 
Raul Malo
Year: 
1998
Voices: 
Men's four part
Ranges: 

Tenor: C#4 - C#5
Lead: E3 - E4
Bari: B2 - E4
Bass: A2 - B3

This song by the Mavericks is a celebration of the carefree delight that follows after the end of an unhappy relationship. There is genuine warmth in the melody line, but the rhythmic backing and trumpet twiddle clothe it in an extended musical giggle.

Here is a video of the Royal Harmonics performing it - in a rather too echo-ey acoustic to hear the detail, but with characteristic joie de vivre: