Walkin My Cat Named Dog

Norma Tanega | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (June 8, 1999)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Collectables
• ASIN: B00000J27V
• Also Available in: Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #301,126 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. You're Dead

2. Treat Me Right

3. Waves

4. Jubilation

5. Don't Touch

6. Walkin' My Cat Named Dog

7. A Street That Rhymes At 6 AM

8. I'm Dreamin' A Dream

9. What Are We Craving?

10. No Stranger Am I

11. Hey Girl

12. I'm The Sky

Editorial Reviews

Norma studied classical piano for 15 years, but it was as a folk singer/guitarist that she found fame, hitting #22 on the pop charts with this album's title cut. That was the only single on this 1966 release to reach the charts, but the whole album-unavailable for years until now-still sounds great today. (By the by, she really did have a cat named Dog.)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars excellent, November 1, 1999

By 

robert campbell (nice, ca United States) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

Amazon Verified Purchase

This review is from: Walkin My Cat Named Dog (Audio CD)

I remember when I was 12 years old, I bought the album "Walking My Cat Named Dog" in a 99 cent bin at Montgomery Wards. It is one of my favorite albums of all time. Check out the tracks "Jubliation" to be happy and free and share the greatness of freedom "Don't Touch" the warning song to people who can be easily mislead by others and "No Stranger Am I" a beautiful love song, a song that Norma only could sing. When you listen to Norma Tanega's lyrics they are thoughtful, truthful, and sharing. Those lyrics were written over 30 years ago, and to this very day, they still apply. It is a must have for a collector who enjoys spiritual freedom, and whom can caress the beauty of life. I highly recommend it

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One Hit Wonder from 1966, October 12, 2007

By 

C. Schaub "Charlie" (MD USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Walkin My Cat Named Dog (Audio CD)

1966 was a great year for music: the Beatles, the Mamas and the Papas, Simon & Garfunkel, etal. However, one of the songs I remember best is Norma Tanega's one-hit wonder "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog". I don't know why -- it just appealed to me. Maybe it was the sense of joyous freedom as opposed to the heavy-handed Hippie anti-establishment freedom. If any other of Norma Tanega's songs made it to the radio, I missed them. When I saw this CD last year, I purchased it.

The album contains 12 Norma Tanega songs including "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog" which is still a great song. I think "A Street That Rhymes At 6 AM" is even better. The other 10 songs are OK but not great. The album notes are somewhat sketchy -- a bit more information about Miss Tanega and the songs would have been nice.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Charter Member Of The One-Hit Wonder Club, July 31, 2007

By 

AvidOldiesCollector (Ottawa, Ontario, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Walkin My Cat Named Dog (Audio CD)

If you're a completist collector of hit singles I have to agree with another reviewer who recommends grabbing this album. Simply because this is likely the ONLY place you're ever going to see both sides of Norma Tanega's one hit single, Walking My Cat Named Dog, which reached # 22 Billboard Pop Hot 100 in March 1966 on New Voice 807 b/w I'm The Sky.

The hit and B-side both appeared in the only vinyl album she ever recorded in the U.S., New Voice S-2001 in 1966 and also titled Walkin' My Cat Named Dog. Other singles to emerge from the album included A Street That Rhymes At 6:00 A.M. b/w Treat Me Right on New Voice 810, Waves on New Voice 815 (the B-side, Bread, was not in the album), and No Stranger Am I on New Voice 821 (again, the B-Side, Run On The Run, was not part of the LP).

There is some indication that Norma, after moving to the U.K. in the 1970s, may have cut an album there for RCA Victor but that is proving difficult to track down. After she returned to the States she returned to school and eventually got a Master Of Fine Arts degree in painting, after which she took up teaching art in Claremont, California.

A singer in the style, but not quite the quality, of Buffy Saint-Marie and Sylvia Tyson, nothing else Norma did musically ever captured the public's attention to the extent where it led to commercial success.