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Walking on Sunshine (Eddy Grant song)

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Released
  
1982

Writer(s)
  
Eddy Grant

B-side
  
"Rockin' on Sunshine" "Acappella Sunshine" (12" only)

Format
  
7" (excluding North America) 12"

Length
  
3:44 (7") 9:30 (Vocal, 12")

Label
  
Streetwise (US) London (UK)

"Walking on Sunshine" is a song by Eddy Grant, originally released as a single and the title track of his 1979 album Walking on Sunshine. 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. The single, with vocals by Donnie Calvin, was number one on the Hot Dance Club Play charts for one week. The single did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100, but did peak at number sixty-three on the Hot Black Singles chart. It also reached number 4 on the UK Singles Chart. The song's bassline would later be sampled in Eleanor's 1988 song "Adventure", itself a number-one Dance Club Play hit in 1988.

Personnel

  • Fred Zarr – bass guitar, keyboard instrument
  • Donnie Calvin – vocals
  • Bashiri Johnson – percussion
  • John Benitez and Arthur Baker – mixers
  • References

    Walking on Sunshine (Eddy Grant song) Wikipedia