The best-known version of the song was recorded by Guy Mitchell in 1952.
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The song is a Prodigal Son allegory about a young man (the story's metaphorical "robin") who couldn't fly and could only walk all the way back to his old home in Missouri following a life of partying hard in the big city jazz scene -- or more to the point, the repercussions that happened as a result.
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He wrote about a thousand songs and specialized in putting Swedish lyrics to foreign tunes like "Walkin' My Baby Back Home", "Waltz for Debby", "Dat Dere", "Take Five" and "Bachianas brasileiras" no 5.
In September 2010, AFL champion Shane Crawford embarked on a marathon walk from Adelaide to Melbourne, That's What I'm Walkin' About.
After leaving Tommy Boy in 2002, Cal released a follow-up to Walkin' Dead entitled Still Walkin'.
Camp has written Smash Mouth's most memorable songs of the later 1990s and early 2000s, including "Walkin' on the Sun," "All Star," and "Then the Morning Comes".
#"Walkin', Talkin', Cryin', Barely Beatin' Broken Heart" (Roger Miller, Justin Tubb) — 2:33
However, the group also recorded takes on country and western classics such as Ennio Morricone's "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" and the Patsy Cline standard "Walkin' After Midnight".
# "Walkin' My Baby Back Home" (Fred E. Ahlert, Roy Turk) – 2:42
The singles which were released on Glass Records between 1986 & 1988 are "Walkin' With Jesus", Transparent Radiation EP and "Take Me To The Other Side".
The album's title track, a staple of Davis's live set for many years, was also covered by Bobby McFerrin on his 1987 album Spontaneous Inventions.
On January 28, 1957, Cline was invited to perform a song on the CBS television program hosted by Arthur Godfrey entitled, Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts.
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The song was left unused until Hecht rediscovered it when writing for Four Star Records.
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In January 1957, Cline performed the song on an episode of the CBS television program, Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts.
Walkin' Butterfly was voted the 2nd best new josei manga in English of 2007 by readers of About.com.
1992 - Rising Sons on their album Rising Sons Featuring Taj Mahal and Ry Cooder (recorded in the mid-1960s)
# "William Tell Overture" (Gioachino Rossini, arranged by Glen Campbell & Dennis McCarthy) - 2:44
Two versions of this video were filmed: One for music video channels, and the other being an "adult" version featuring topless models including a then 16-year-old porn star Traci Lords.
# "Walkin' in the Rain" (Barry Mann, Phil Spector, Cynthia Weil)
Harold Lamont Otey or "Walkin' Wili", the first person executed since 1976 in Nebraska