Template:Did you know nominations/Sabre Dance (2nd nomination)
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The result was: promoted by Dclemens1971 (talk) 23:01, 11 January 2026 (UTC)
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Sabre Dance
- ... that Aram Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance", a classical piece, was turned into a UK rock hit?
- Source: Collins, Jeff (2022). Rock Legends at Rockfield (1st ed.). Cardiff: University of Wales Press. p. 10. ISBN 9781915279057. "At that time in the late 1960s, Edmunds had started a band called Love Sculpture, who had a tremendous influence on many groups starting in the early 1970s. They had a massive hit single with the song 'Sabre Dance'."
"Sabre Dance". officialcharts.com. Official Charts Company. Archived from the original on 30 June 2021.
- ALT1: ... that Aram Khachaturian's "Sabre Dance" became an American jukebox hit while he was being officially denounced in the Soviet Union?
- Source: "Soviets throw book at Beria". Life. New York. December 28, 1957. p. 17. "Meanwhile a musical revolt was stirred up in Russia by Aram Khachaturian, one of the U.S.S.R.'s leading composers, who wrote the U.S. juke box favorite of 1948, Sabre Dance."
Petrak, Albert M., ed. (1985). "Khachaturian, Aram Ilyich". David Mason Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers (1st ed.). Garden City, New York: Reproducing Piano Roll Foundation. pp. 1329–30. ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6. "Meanwhile its flashy "Sabre Dance" had conquered the U.S.S.R.'s new American allies and at one time was a standard on juke-boxes."
""Bourgeois" Composers". Life. 24 (8): 48. 23 February 1948.
"Kaput in Russia; Wins U.S. Acclaim". Lawrence Journal-World. (via AP). 17 March 1948. Archived from the original on 10 July 2023.
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Improved to Good Article status by Yerevantsi (talk).
Number of QPQs required: 2. DYK is currently in unreviewed backlog mode and nominator has 79 past nominations.
--Երևանցի talk 10:16, 26 November 2025 (UTC).
Article has achieved Good Article status. No issues of copyvio or plagiarism. All sources appear reliable. Hooks are interesting and sourced. QPQs are done. Looks ready to go. Thriley (talk) 22:22, 1 December 2025 (UTC)