Walking on Sunshine is the debut album

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 band Katrina and the Waves

Katrina and the Waves

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, released in 1983

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. The album was only released in Canada, but now appears worldwide on the compilation Original Recordings 1983-1984.

This album contains the original version of the title track

Walking on Sunshine (song)

"Walking on Sunshine" is a song written by Kimberley Rew for Katrina and the Waves' 1983 eponymous debut full-length album. The re-recorded 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,...

, which would be re-recorded two years later and thereupon become the band's biggest US

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Track listing

All songs written by Kimberley Rew

Kimberley Rew

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1. "Dancing Street" – 2:24
2. "Spiderman" – 3:12
3. "Going Down to Liverpool" – 3:45
4. "Machine Gun Smith" – 2:55
5. "Walking on Sunshine
   Walking on Sunshine (song)
   "Walking on Sunshine" is a song written by Kimberley Rew for Katrina and the Waves' 1983 eponymous debut full-length album. The re-recorded 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,...
   
   " – 3:55
6. "Brown Eyed Son" – 2:03
7. "Que Te Quiero" – 3:17
8. "Don't Take Her Out of My World" – 2:53
9. "I Really Taught Me to Watusi" – 3:02
10. "Ain't No Money (Buy You Love)" – 2:35

Personnel

• Katrina Leskanich
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   - rhythm guitar
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  , lead vocals
• Kimberley Rew
  Kimberley Rew
  Kimberley Rew is an English rock and roll singer-songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as a member of Katrina and the Waves 1981 to 1999 and of Robyn Hitchcock's Soft Boys 1978 to 1981...
  
   - lead guitar
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  , vocals
• Vince de la Cruz - bass
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  , vocals
• Alex Cooper - drums
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  , vocals
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• Kevin Flanagan - saxophone
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• Nick Glennie-Smith - organ
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