Walking on Sunshine (song)

Infobox Single
Name = Walking on Sunshine


Artist = Katrina and the Waves
from Album = Walking on Sunshine
Released = 1985
Format = CD single
Recorded =
Genre = Pop
Length = 4:00
Label = Attic
Writer = Kimberley Rew
Producer =
Certification =
Last single = "Que Te Quiero" (1984)
This single = "Walking on Sunshine" (1985)
Next single = "Do You Want Crying" (1985)Infobox Single
Name = Walking on Sunshine


Artist = Aly & AJ
from Album = Into the Rush
Released = 2005
Format = Promo single
Radio Disney single
Recorded = 2005
Genre = Pop
Length = 3:54
Label = Hollywood
Writer =
Producer = Matthew Gerrard
Certification =
Chronology = Aly & AJ minor singles
Last single = "No One" (2005)
This single = "Walking on Sunshine" (2005)
Next single = "Rush" (2005)

"Walking on Sunshine" is a song written by Kimberley Rew for Katrina and the Waves' second album of the same name. A rerecorded version was released on the band's 1985 self-titled album as the album's second single (see 1985 in music) and reached #4 in Australia and #9 in the United States and #8 in the United Kingdom. It is the Waves' first U.S. top forty hit, and their biggest success in the UK until "Love Shine a Light" (1997).

This is "not" the first song called "Walking on Sunshine", nor is the album the first album to have that title. The first song and album to be called "Walking on Sunshine" was an Eddy Grant album and single that came out in 1979 (see "Walking on Sunshine (Eddy Grant album)"), six years before the Katrina and the Waves album appeared. Despite sharing the same title, the two album-and-single-pairs are unrelated to each other; the Katrina and the Waves single is "not" a cover of the Eddy Grant single, which was sung in the genre of reggae. While both songs were successful, the Katrina and the Waves single achieved more popularity.

In 2007, pop group Girl Authority covered the song on "Road Trip". Matthew Gerrard produced a cover of the song for singing duo Aly & AJ's debut album, "Into the Rush". It was released as the album's third single in 2005 (see 2005 in music), and it was also used to promote the film ' (see ). The single's video features Aly & AJ performing, and is intercut with clips from the film '. Only one minute and fifty-five seconds of the song is used for the video.

Hurricane "Katrina"

In 2005, the storm surge of Hurricane Katrina devastated the U.S. Gulf Coast, including the city of New Orleans, Louisiana. It was the deadliest and costliest hurricane to have ever hit the U.S. mainland. Ironically enough, this song was widely played in New Orleans following the destruction. The lead singer, Katrina Leskanich, expressed her sorrow for the victims, especially dealing with the fact that she (and her band) now bears a name that has been demonized by a devastating hurricane.

Appearances in Popular Culture

*Song played prominently in Look Who's Talking (1989)
* The character Barry played by Jack Black in the movie High Fidelity (2000) plays this song on a cassette tape to torment the heartbroken Rob (John Cusack).
* Fry from Futurama sings this song occasionally and his dog Seymour was able to bark/sing lines of it. It was prominently used in the episode Jurassic Bark, where Fry teaches Seymour how to bark along with the song, though Fry can never remember any lines past "I'm walking on sunshine". From there on he hums the tune.
* Telefónica Movistar (Spain's mobile company) used the song in the commercials announcing the acquisition of Bell South's Latin America division
* Fisher Price uses the song like a jingle for their TV commercials to promote its products.
* Paris Geller of "Gilmore Girls" sings an off-key version of the chorus into a hairbrush at the beginning of an episode to celebrate her budding relationship with her boyfriend Doyle.
* A sound-alike instrumental version of the song with a key change to address copyright concerns was used by NBC in the 90s and early 2000s in promotional ads for their theatrical and TV movie premieres. The differing version was mostly used to promote romantic comedies.
* In "Rendezvous", an episode of the television series "Prison Break", Brad Bellick and Roy Geary play a CD of "Walking on Sunshine" continuously while beating T-Bag, in an effort to persuade him to reveal the location of Charles Westmoreland's five million dollar stash.
* It is used during establishing shots in the films "The Secret of My Success" (1987).
* The song was also used in the movie American Psycho (2000) which used many songs from the 1980s for its soundtrack.
* The trailer for Bollywood film "Jab We Met" featured this song.
* The opening scenes to Daddy Day Care, the 2003 film featuring Eddie Murphy, used the song as their opening track.
* The Aly & AJ cover song was used in "" and appears on its .
*Pop group Jump5 covered the song on their 2003 album Accelerate.
* A snippet is played at the end of the Drew Carey Show episode "When Wives Collide"
* The song appears on the game .
* The song has been used in a number of Intervention parodies on YouTube of a chronic huffer who said inhaling canned air was "like walking on sunshine".

External links

* [http://www.tophitsonline.com/lyrics.php?songid=129734 Lyrics]