NEW 📀 Walk Right In - The Rooftop Singers {Stereo} 1963

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[Morgana]

1963......#1 U.S. Billboard Hot 100, #1 U.S. Cash Box Top 100, , #10 UK Singles, #1 Canada Original video edited and remastered with HQ stereo sound. "Walk Right In" is a country blues song written by musician Gus Cannon and originally recorded by Cannon's Jug Stompers in 1929. Victor Records released on a 78 rpm record and in 1959, it was included on the influential compilation album The Country Blues. A revised version of the song by the Rooftop Singers, with the writing credits allocated to group members Erik Darling and Bill Svanoe, became an international hit in 1963. In 1962, the American folk trio the Rooftop Singers recorded a version of the song. Group member Erik Darling recruited two friends to record a folk version of "Walk Right In" after hearing the original Cannon recording. Darling wanted the record to have a distinctive sound, so he and group member Bill Svanoe both played twelve string guitars on the song, although they had some difficulty in acquiring the instruments. Darling is quoted as saying that prior to the making of this record, "you couldn't buy a 12-string guitar ... I ordered one from the Gibson Company, but in order to record the song with two 12-strings, we had to wait for the company to build a second one for Bill!" (a left-handed model). The success of the song was a boon to Cannon, who was in his late 70s and had been forced to pawn his banjo the previous winter to pay his heating bill; he received royalties as a songwriter and saw renewed interest in his music, which led to a recording contract of his own.

[frank ballenger]

Thanks for the song link.

I remember the song, of course.

Used to like to hear 12 string guitars, such as by the gifted studio musician Glen Campbell who later had his own songs, I’ve been told. (kidding)

Bob Dylan when asked “what is the best song ever recorded?” has several times said “Wichita Lineman” (Jim Webb song sung by Glen Campbell.)

“The Astounding 12-String Guitar of Glen Campbell” (1964) was one.

I was surprised when I watched a video of the Monterrey Festival that there was so much leftover folk guitar influence as with the early Jefferson Airplane. 12 string guitar for the Mamas and the Papas, too. Folk roots for them.

Leadbelly used his 12 string before amplification because it could be heard by a larger audience. He was called “The King of the 12 String Guitar” since the 1930s.

[rhoda_penmark]

Nice one, thanks - I had forgotten about my eight-year-old self listening to this.

Everyone’s talking bout a new way to walk in.

[mjp]

Gee, in 1962, I thought that this was the first “drugs” song. I didn’t know that it was first recorded in 1929.

[jmacusa]

“Walk right in/sit right down/daddy let your mind roll on...’’