Walk, Don't Run (soundtrack)
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''Walk, Don't Run'' is the
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to the 1966 film of the same name composed by
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. It was orchestrated by Jack Hayes and
Leo Shuken Leo Shuken (born December 8, 1906, Los Angeles, California – d. July 24, 1976, Santa Monica, California) was an American film music composer, arranger, and musical director, who specialized in epic or Western film genres, including " The Magnifi ...
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's Stephen Cook describes the score as having a "
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inspired sound", with "excellent contributions from
Toots Thielemans Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans (29 April 1922 – 22 August 2016), known professionally as Toots Thielemans (), was a Belgian jazz musician. He was mostly known for playing the chromatic harmonica, as well as his guitar and wh ...
and
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". Jones collaborated with
Peggy Lee Norma Deloris Egstrom (May 26, 1920 – January 21, 2002), known professionally as Peggy Lee, was an American jazz and popular music singer, songwriter, and actress whose career spanned seven decades. From her beginning as a vocalist on local r ...
on the songs "Happy Feet" and "Stay with Me". Jones was recommended to score the film for
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, who had met him through Lee.


Track listing

# "Happy Feet" – 2:13 # "Stay with Me" – 2:57 # "Copy Cat (Wack a Do)" – 2:59 # "Happy Feet - vocal" – 1:47 # "Papa San" – 1:50 # "Abso-Bleedin'-Lutely" – 2:50 # "Stay with Me - vocal" – 2:22 # "One More Time" – 2:49 # "20th Century Drawers" – 3:10 # "Locked Out" – 2:15 # "Happy Feet - reprise" – 1:43 # "Rabelaisian Rutland" – 1:49 # "One More Time - reprise" – 0:46


Personnel


Performance

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Quincy Jones Quincy Delight Jones Jr. (March 14, 1933 – November 3, 2024) was an American record producer, composer, arranger, conductor, trumpeter, and bandleader. Over the course of his seven-decade career, he received List of awards and nominations re ...
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Toots Thielemans Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans (29 April 1922 – 22 August 2016), known professionally as Toots Thielemans (), was a Belgian jazz musician. He was mostly known for playing the chromatic harmonica, as well as his guitar and wh ...
harmonica The harmonica, also known as a French harp or mouth organ, is a free reed wind instrument used worldwide in many musical genres, notably in blues, American folk music, classical music, jazz, country, and rock. The many types of harmonica incl ...
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whistle A whistle is a musical instrument which produces sound from a stream of gas, most commonly air. It is a type of Fipple, fipple flute, and may be mouth-operated, or powered by air pressure, steam, or other means. Whistles vary in size from a s ...
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Harry "Sweets" Edison Harry "Sweets" Edison (October 10, 1915 – July 27, 1999) was an American jazz trumpeter and a member of the Count Basie Orchestra. His most important contribution was as a Hollywood studio musician, whose muted trumpet can be heard backi ...
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reeds *
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Emil Richards Emil Richards (born Emilio Joseph Radocchia; September 2, 1932 – December 13, 2019) was an American vibraphonist and percussionist. Biography Musician Richards began playing the xylophone aged six. In High School, he performed with the ...
percussion A percussion instrument is a musical instrument that is sounded by being struck or scraped by a percussion mallet, beater including attached or enclosed beaters or Rattle (percussion beater), rattles struck, scraped or rubbed by hand or ...
* Don Elliot Voices
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on "Happy Feet" *Tony Clementi – vocals on "Stay with Me" * Jack Hayes,
Leo Shuken Leo Shuken (born December 8, 1906, Los Angeles, California – d. July 24, 1976, Santa Monica, California) was an American film music composer, arranger, and musical director, who specialized in epic or Western film genres, including " The Magnifi ...
– orchestrations *
Richard Hazard Richard Hazard (March 2, 1921 – December 20, 2000) was an American television composer, orchestrator, conductor and songwriter. He was born in Trenton, New Jersey, and died in Los Angeles, California, of cancer. He was married to Jeanne T ...
– vocal orchestrations


References

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