Walking on Sunshine (song)
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| Single by Katrina and the Waves from the album Walking on Sunshine |
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| Released | 1985 | ||||
| Format | CD single | ||||
| Genre | Pop | ||||
| Length | 4:00 | ||||
| Label | Attic | ||||
| Writer(s) | Kimberley Rew | ||||
| Katrina and the Waves singles chronology | |||||
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| Single by Aly & AJ from the album Into the Rush |
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| Released | 2005 | ||||
| Format | Promo single Radio Disney single |
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| Recorded | 2005 | ||||
| Genre | Pop | ||||
| Length | 4:00 | ||||
| Label | Hollywood | ||||
| Writer(s) | Kimberley Rew | ||||
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"Walking on Sunshine" is a song written by Kimberley Rew for Katrina and the Waves' second album of the same name. A rerecorded version was released on the band's 1985 self-titled album as the album's second single (see 1985 in music) and reached #4 in Australia and #9 in the United States and #8 in the United Kingdom. It is the Waves' first U.S. top forty hit, and their biggest success in the UK until "Love Shine a Light" (1997).
This is not the first song called "Walking on Sunshine", nor is the album the first album to have that title. The first song and album to be called "Walking on Sunshine" was an Eddy Grant album and single that came out in 1979 (see Walking on Sunshine (Eddy Grant album)), six years before the Katrina and the Waves album appeared. Despite sharing the same title, the two album-and-single-pairs are unrelated to each other; the Katrina and the Waves single is not a cover of the Eddy Grant single, which was sung in the genre of reggae. While both songs were successful, the Katrina and the Waves single achieved more popularity.
In 2007, pop group Girl Authority covered the song on Road Trip. Matthew Gerrard produced a cover of the song for singing duo Aly & AJ's debut album, Into the Rush. It was released as the album's third single in 2005 (see 2005 in music), and it was also used to promote the film Herbie: Fully Loaded (see Herbie: Fully Loaded (soundtrack)). The single's video features Aly & AJ performing, and is intercut with clips from the film Herbie: Fully Loaded. Only one minute and fifty-five seconds of the song is used for the video.
[edit] Hurricane "Katrina"
In 2005, a storm named Hurricane Katrina devastated much of the Gulf Coast, including the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. As the Waves lead singer Katrina Leskanich now shares her name with the devastation, she was quoted in the New York Times as saying the following:
"The first time I opened the paper and saw 'Katrina kills 9 million,' it was a bit of a shock. It's a very sad situation, but I'm sure the strength and good will of 'Walking on Sunshine' will turn it around. I hope that the true spirit of 'Walking on Sunshine' will prevail. I would hate for the title to be tinged with sadness, and I will have to do my own part to help turn that around. But I don't think I was responsible."
The song was, in fact, widely played in New Orleans and throughout the Gulf Coast in the months after the storm.[citation needed] In fact, MSNBC dubbed their coverage of the storm "Katrina and the waves", referring to the storm itself and its storm surge, and that name also appeared in numerous headlines and blog posts.[citation needed]
[edit] Appearances in Popular Culture
- Song played prominently in Look Who's Talking (1989)
- The character Barry played by Jack Black in the movie High Fidelity (2000) plays this song on a cassette tape.
- Fry from Futurama sings this song occasionally and his dog Seymour was able to bark/sing lines of it.It was prominately used in the episode Jurassic Bark, where Fry teaches Seymour how to bark along with the song.
- Movistar (Spain's mobile company) used the song in the commercials announcing the acquisition of Bell South.
- The song was used by Telefónica to announce the takeover of BellSouth's Latin America division.
- Fisher Price uses the song like a jingle for their TV commercials to promote its products.
- Paris Geller of Gilmore Girls sings an off-key version of the chorus into a hairbrush at the beginning of an episode to celebrate her budding relationship with her boyfriend Doyle.
- A sound-alike instrumental version of the song with a key change to address copyright concerns was used by NBC in the 90s and early 2000s in promotional ads for their theatrical and TV movie premieres. The differing version was mostly used to promote romantic comedies.
- In "Rendezvous", an episode of the television series Prison Break, Brad Bellick and Roy Geary play a CD of "Walking on Sunshine" continuously while beating T-Bag, in an effort to persuade him to reveal the location of Charles Westmoreland's five million dollar stash.
- It is used during establishing shots in the films The Secret of My Success (1987).
- The song was also used in the movie American Psycho (2000) which used many songs from the 1980s for its soundtrack.
- The trailer for Bollywood film Jab We Met featured this song.
- The opening scenes to Daddy Day Care, the 2003 film featuring Eddie Murphy, used the song as their opening track.
- This song was used in Herbie Fully loaded.
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