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"Walking Down Your Street" is a song by the Bangles. It is the fourth single from their 1986 album Different Light.After its single release in 1987, the song charted at #9 on the Cash Box Top 100, [4] #11 on the Billboard Hot 100, #16 on the UK Singles Chart, [5] #26 on the Canadian RPM Top Singles and #56 on the Australian Kent Music Report chart. [6] "
Steele half sings, half talks the lyrics, taking an approach similar to folk singer Bob Dylan or rock/jazz artist Rickie Lee Jones. Steele has indicated that Following was derived from personal experience, stating in a 2003 internet chat: "Yeah, it was about my high school sweetheart."
The British 12" and CD singles also included a remix of "Walking Down Your Street" by David Kahne as a bonus track. [3] In Australia the song was backed by "Everything I Wanted" [4] — later released as a single in its own right in 1990 [5] — and was housed in a different picture sleeve.
"Walk Like an Egyptian" was the third single released from Different Light. It debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 in September 1986. The song reached a peak of number three on the UK Singles Chart in November 1986 and reached number one in the US on December 20, staying at the top of the Hot 100 for four weeks, carrying it over into January 1987.
Walkin' Down the Line" is a song written by Bob Dylan and first recorded by him in November 1962 for Broadside magazine. Dylan recorded the song again in March 1963 for his music publisher Witmark and this version was released in 1991 on The Bootleg Series Volumes 1–3 (Rare & Unreleased) 1961–1991 .
When the band found success with their subsequent album Different Light, "Going Down to Liverpool" was re-released as a single in the UK and Ireland in 1986 after the release of "If She Knew What She Wants", with new cover artwork and featuring the Different Light album track "Let It Go". This time the single fared better but still only became ...
The variant or variants on which these writers base their use of the title "The Unfortunate Rake" are not cited. Early twentieth century British references to this title are references to a tune, not to song lyrics, with the idea that the tune may have originally been used for a song called "The Unfortunate Lad" being offered as a conjecture. [8]
Peterson sang lead vocals on the song, one of the only two A-sides upon which she did so (along with a cover of Katrina and The Waves "Going Down to Liverpool" in 1984). The track was remixed by Chris Lord-Alge for the single release. This is also their third consecutive Billboard Top 40 hit single written by at least one band member.