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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.
A follow-up single to "Walking on Sunshine" called "Do You Want Crying" (written by de la Cruz) also became a top 40 US hit, reaching no. 37 in the late summer of 1985. However, the band's follow-up album to Katrina and the Waves (simply entitled Waves ) did not meet with the same measure of success, either critically or commercially.
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 .
Glee cast mash up of "Walking on Sunshine" and Beyoncé "Halo" (2010) "Walking on Sunshine" has also been featured several times on American Idol, X Factor and The Voice. "Walking on Sunshine" continues to be one of the most popular songs from the 1980s with over 700 million streams on Spotify, [11] and over 6 million monthly listeners.
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 Recordings 1983–1984 is a compilation album by British-American rock band Katrina and the Waves, released on 14 October 2003 by Canadian label Bongo Beat. It compiles for the first time on CD all twenty tracks from the band's first two Canadian-only albums, Walking on Sunshine (1983) and Katrina and the Waves 2 (1984), as well as four previously unreleased bonus tracks.
In the film Walking on Sunshine, there is a version of this song performed by the protagonists Taylor (Hannah Arterton) and Raf (Giulio Berruti). The song was used in the 2019 commercial for Luminess Silk Foundation makeup products. [52]
In early 2005, "Walking on Sunshine" was re-released on the Gossip U.S. record label, featuring remixes by Hott 22 and Live Element. Another Rockers Revenge track called "Battle Cry" was featured in the film Beat Street and its soundtrack album .