Walk, Don't Run (album)

Walk, Don't Run
Studio album by The Ventures
Released December 5, 1960
Recorded 1959
Genre Instrumental rock, Surf
Length 27 minutes
Label Dolton
The Ventures chronology

Walk, Don't Run
(1960)
The Ventures
(1961)

Walk, Don't Run is the debut album by The Ventures, featuring cover versions of well-known songs and original compositions.[1]

The Ventures were on one of their first tours as Liberty Records began compiling their first album and were still on the road by the time of the front cover photo shoot. As a result, four employees from Liberty's stockroom (with two wearing sunglasses) were posed as if they were falling or tripping over instruments with model Barbara Grimes walking in front of them. A photo of the actual Ventures was originally featured on the back cover, but to avoid possible confusion when compared to the "stand-ins" on the front cover it was replaced with an outline-drawn version of the same photo.

Released on Liberty's Dolton subsidiary in December 1960, Walk, Don't Run became a big seller, peaking at #11 on Billboard and earning The Ventures a gold record (their first of three) for over 500,000 copies sold.

In 1969, the album was reissued by Liberty (having discontinued the Dolton label two years earlier but keeping the original stereo catalog number), featuring an updated photo of the group. By that time, the lineup consisted of Don Wilson, Bob Bogle, Gerry McGee, Mel Taylor and John Durrill, though only the former two appear on the album. The back cover with the outline drawing of the original photo was kept intact.


Track listing

Side 1

  1. "Morgen"
  2. "Raunchy"
  3. "Home"
  4. "My Own True Love (Tara's Theme)"
  5. "The Switch"
  6. "Walk, Don't Run"

Side 2

  1. "Night Train"
  2. "No Trespassing"
  3. "Caravan"
  4. "Sleepwalk"
  5. "The McCoy"
  6. "Honky Tonk"

Credits

Notes

  1. ↑ "Walk Don't Run" was recorded in 1959 but no record company would sign them so, in the end, they started up Horizon Records and produced it themselves. It wasn't until it gained airplay as a radio news signature tune that it finally made its way to No.2 on the US Billboard charts.

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