Track of the Week - 10 July 2022
Last week a group of us went to see a day of the rearranged fifth test match between England and India at Edgbaston. It was a thoroughly enjoyable day even if the excitement petered out in the last 90 minutes or so as India gained an advantage (that was ultimately comfortably overturned on day five).
But this isn't about the cricket. We'd parked about half an hour's walk away to avoid charges and traffic congestion and with the aid of a maps app found the ground fairly easily. That wasn't the case on the way back.
Rather than use an app again we just started back because a group of five men would obviously remember the way right? Wrong. After about 25 minutes we felt we weren't quite in the right place. It took an app and another half hour or so to make it back to the car. Lesson learnt.
The Walk was originally released in 1958 by West Coast blues man Jimmy McCracklin but I'm bringing you the 1979 cover version by pub rockers The Inmates that reached number 36. Reason being is that I bought it. I may still have it.
The song itself sets The Walk up as a dance craze. Repeating lines like "You just walk, yeah you walk, then you walk, Yes you walk, oh you walk" - oh, we walked alright!
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