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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).
"Capitol sent out a sampler of four tracks and all the DJs said, "It's the "Sunshine" song because we can talk over the intro and it's got the right energy for summer," she said. [11] When the song was released as a single in March 1985, it charted all over Europe, the US, Canada and Australia. [ 1 ]
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, a completely re-recorded, and substantially rearranged version of the song compared to its initial 1983 Canada-only release).
Walking on Sunshine is the debut studio album by English new wave band Katrina and the Waves, released on December 1, 1983, by Attic Records. The album was only officially released in Canada , but now appears worldwide on the 2003 compilation The Original Recordings 1983–1984 .
The group's initial entry on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, "Walking on Sunshine" (an Eddy Grant composition, featuring vocals by Donnie Calvin) hit #1 on the U.S. dance chart in 1982. The track reached #4 in the UK Singles Chart in September 1982. [4] Follow-ups "The Harder They Come" (1983) and "Living for the Weekend" (1984) also charted.
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
[9] Music Week rated the song five out of five, adding, "This fun-loving US quartet have managed to fuse The Doors with the Stereo MCs to create a deliciously frug-inducing slice of slacker pop. A cracker." [10] A reviewer from NME wrote, "'Walkin' On The Sun' is a classic, straight out of the groovy, secret agent world of Austin Powers.