Walk Don’t Run – The Ventures

“Walk, Don’t Run” is an instrumental composition written and originally recorded by jazz guitarist Johnny Smith in 1954.

It was later adapted and re-recorded by Chet Atkins in 1956, and was a track on the LP Hi-Fi In Focus. This arrangement was the inspiration for the version by The Ventures in 1960 (though the Ventures’ arrangement is recognizably different from Atkins’ finger-picked style) which achieved world-wide recognition, being regarded by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the top 100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time.

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