Walk, Don't Run (song)
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| “Walk, Don't Run” | |||||
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| Single by The Ventures | |||||
| B-side | "Home" (Blue Horizon & first Dolton pressings) "The McCoy" (later Dolton pressings) | ||||
| Released | June 1960 | ||||
| Label | Blue Horizon (USA) Dolton (US) | ||||
| Writer(s) | Johnny Smith | ||||
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"Walk-Don't Run" is a ground-breaking 1960 hit single by the Seattle-based instrumental rock band The Ventures[1]. Although written and first performed by Johnny Smith, the Ventures' version is believed to be one of the first surfing songs to make the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at #2 and reaching #3 on the Cash Box magazine chart in the Summer of 1960. In addition to reaching #6 in Great Britain on the Record Retailer chart that Fall. The same band made an updated cover version of the song in 1964, called "Walk Don't Run '64" (which has a guitar riff similar to Misirlou), and that made it into the top-ten in the US that August.
Chet Atkins also recorded a popular rendition of the song that preceded the Ventures' hit by three years.
Walk Don't Run was also the title of a 1964 Cary Grant romantic comedy motion picture.
This song is featured in the dance scene between BG and JM in the film The Goddess of 1967.
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