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"Walking on Sunshine" is a song written by Kimberley Rew for British rock band Katrina and the Waves' 1983 eponymous debut full-length album. The rerecorded version was at first released on the band's 1985 self-titled album as the album's second single and reached No. 4 in Australia, No. 9 in the United States and No. 8 in the United Kingdom.
The Katrina and the Waves album was a substantial critical and commercial success, and the group had a worldwide hit with the song "Walking on Sunshine," (no. 9 US, no. 8 UK, [1] a completely re-recorded, and substantially rearranged version of the song when compared to its initial 1983 Canada-only release).
Their song "Walking on Sunshine" was an international hit in 1985. In 1997, the band won the Eurovision Song Contest for the United Kingdom with the song " Love Shine a Light ". Both songs were written by Leskanich's long-term bandmate Kimberley Rew .
The label wanted to make some of the songs more single-worthy, particularly "Going Down to Liverpool" and "Walking on Sunshine", so the band did some recording and mixing in London with producer Pat Collier, who had worked on their first two albums. "We did loads of versions [of "Walking on Sunshine"]," Collier said in 2017.
The original version of the song appeared on Katrina and the Waves' 1982 EP Shock Horror! (with the band then simply named The Waves). Soon thereafter, they re-recorded the song for inclusion on their 1983 debut full-length album Walking on Sunshine, which was only released in Canada. The version included on both releases featured Rew on lead ...
Walking on Sunshine may refer to: Walking on Sunshine (Eddy Grant album), 1978 "Walking on Sunshine" (Eddy Grant song), a hit for Rockers Revenge in 1982; Walking on Sunshine (Katrina and the Waves album), 1983 "Walking on Sunshine" (Katrina and the Waves song) "Walking on Sunshine" (Jennifer Lopez song), 2001; Walking on Sunshine, a 2014 film
"Walking on Sunshine", a cover of the Katrina and the Waves song, and "Never Far Behind" were released as further singles. The latter appeared on the Billboard Hot Christian Songs chart, peaking at number 28. [5] On February 28, 2006, the fifth single from the album, "Rush", written with Daniel James and Leah Haywood, was released.
"Walking on Sunshine" is a song by Eddy Grant, and the title track of his third studio album. It was released as a single in 1979. It was released as a single in 1979. Grant's original version was not a hit, but the song was remade three years later by Rockers Revenge , a studio project assembled by producer Arthur Baker , which became the hit ...