CD Details
- Released: October 21, 2003
- Label: Bongo Beat Records
Tracks:
- 1.Dancing Street
- 2.Spiderman
- 3.Going Down to Liverpool
- 4.Machine Gun Smith
- 5.Walking on Sunshine
- 6.Brown Eyed Son
- 7.Que to Quiero
- 8.Don't Take Her Out of My World
- 9.I Really Taught Me to Watusi
- 10.Ain't No Money (Buy You Love)
- 11.Do You Want Crying?
- 12.Maniac House
- 13.She Loves to Groove
- 14.Cry For Me
- 15.Red Wine and Whiskey
- 16.Mexico
- 17.One Woman
- 18.The Sun Won't Shine
- 19.He's a Charmer
- 20.The Game of Love
- 21.That's Just the Woman in Me
- 22.River Deep Mountain High
- 23.Heartbeat
- 24.Walking on Sunshine (live)
Product Description:
Contains 2 LPs on 1 CD: WALKING ON SUNSHINE (1983)/KATRINA & THE WAVES 2 (1984).
This release includes a bonus DVD.
Katrina & The Waves: Katrina Leskanich (vocals, guitar); Kimberley Rew (guitar); Vince De la Cruz (bass); Alex Cooper (drums).
Additional personnel includes: Kevin Flanagan (saxophone); Nick Glennie-Smith (organ).
Producers: Katrina & The Waves, Pat Collier.
Merging Katrina & the Waves' acclaimed but long-deleted Attic Records output, The Original Recordings 1983-1984 collects all of the superb material from the Kimberly Rew-steered outfit's Walking on Sunshine and Katrina & the Waves 2 discs. Stripping away the major-label production that overshadowed the group's subsequent 1985 breakthrough, Waves, this reissue boasts 24 tracks of delightful nostalgia. Including four previously unreleased nuggets, including a solid take on "River Deep Mountain High," which gets bolstered by vocalist Katrina Leskanich's always solid pipes, this compilation also adds a bonus DVD of live and rare video footage. But the real value is in all of the great music, including primitive, energetic takes on hits like "Going Down to Liverpool," "Do You Want Crying," and "Walking on Sunshine." And largely unheard tracks like the irresistible rocker "Spiderman" and the hummable "Brown Eyed Son" are out of this world. Decades later, these old Waves tracks still sound tremendous. ~ John D. Luerssen
