Tanega, Norma: Walkin' My Cat Named Dog
Tanega, Norma: Walkin' My Cat Named Dog
Format: CD
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Artist: Tanega, Norma
Label: Real Gone Music
Product Type: COMPACT DISCS
UPC: 848064011767
Genre: Folk
Now, here's a cult classic album long overdue for a proper CD reissue! Norma Tanega was discovered while singing to Catskill summer campers by producer Herb Bernstein, who brought her to Four Seasons songwriter Bob Crewe. Crewe signed her to his New Voice label, and success was instantaneous: the title song to Walkin' My Cat Named Dog went to #22 on the charts. But, despite the album's folk-pop trappings, Norma Tanega was not an artist destined to stay at the top of the charts for long; her voice was unconventional, and her songs were too idiosyncratic, not sticking to typical song structure or even meter (for example, 'No Stranger Am I' is set to a 5/4 time signature). In fact, Tanega's songs were so unusual that she had to hire session musicians to play them on the North American tour she took to support the album instead of her erstwhile back-up band The Outsiders! Upon returning, she then embarked on a British tour that was to change her life forever; there she met Dusty Springfield, and the two embarked on an artistic and romantic relationship that prompted Tanega to move to London for five years. After the pair broke up, Tanega wound up moving to California and shifted to playing percussion in more experimental settings, following the wayward muse that makes Walkin' My Cat Named Dog such an entrancing and unique listening experience to this day (in fact, the FX show What We Do in the Shadows uses 'You're Dead' for it's theme song!) The previous CD release of this album came out in the late '90s and suffered from indifferent sound and packaging, not even showing the original album cover; our Expanded and Remastered Edition adds two non-LP sides ('Bread' and 'Run, on the Run') to present Norma's complete New Voice recordings, all beautifully remastered (from hi-res digital files) by Mike Milchner of SonicVision and annotated by Richie Unterberger with added photos. A long-overdue digital tribute to the late, great Norma Tanega!
Tracks:
1.1 You’re Dead
1.2 Treat Me Right
1.3 Waves
1.4 Jubilation
1.5 Don’t Touch
1.6 Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog
1.7 A Street That Rhymes at 6 A.M.
1.8 I’m Dreamin’ a Dream
1.9 What Are We Craving?
1.10 No Stranger Am I
1.11 Hey Girl
1.12 I’m the Sky
1.13 Bread
1.14 Run, on the Run
