Does anyone know the origin of this clapping/ chanting rhythm? It’s not easy to Google a rhythm - not without that iPhone ap anyway.
It is known in Chinese/Taiwan according to my wife. 爱的鼓励掌声 Roughly translated by Google as "Love the applause of encouragement. Googling the Chinese brought a reference to the Olympics.
I can’t be certain but I’d place money on it predating any pop song by a long way. And the Bay City Rollers rhythm isn’t even close.
Is it international? My wife knew it, so by definition… yes. But do you hear it at sports events in North America?
I always associated it with football but there seems to be a reference to the Olympics on a Chinese website. It could be hundreds of years old as far as I know. I’d bet on at least 50 to a hundred years, if not ancient.
edit: I just remembered, 2-4-6-8, who do we ap-pre-ci-ate?
Yeah, nice try on the Rollers, but no dice.
Definitely I remember when my big sister was a cheerleader in junior high (uh, say, early 70’s) they had cheers that used it (One! Two! One two three! One two three four! Let’s go!).
I want to say I heard the organ player doing at Oil Kings games in the 60’s, but I can’t be certain.