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Walkin My Cat Named Dog

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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

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.

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.

I was a very disappointed in the quality of this CD. The music is great; great nostalgia. I had this LP when it first came out and loved it and was excited to have it available on CD. The sound quality is terrible: hissing, noise; sounds like it was made from an LP in none too good condition.

Also I was surprised that a hole was drilled through the CD case--isn't this something retailers do when a manufacturer discontinues and item--similar to ripping off the cover of a paperback book?

I bought the 45rpm single of 'Street that rhymes' 40 years ago. This was the first time I had seen the track on a CD so I bought it. My copy had two tracks with such bad dissonance problems that they were unplayable. Unfortunately, one of the these was 'Street that rhymes', which was the only real reason I had to buy the CD.

Because of pstal costs being high from where I live - central Europe - to Amazon.com I just threww it in the trash.

A great disappointment - and a question as to how it is possible to release a defective CD like this.

The only reason I have for not giving Norma Tanega's album a higher rating is I'm not especially fond of her music. However I remembered, from my post high school years, her song "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog." It's kind of a catchy tune/song and since my wife and I were recently acquired/adopted by a stray male tabby cat whose characteristics, antics and general behavior were more like that of a dog than a cat we decided to name him Dog. Since we had become the proud caretakers of a "Cat Named Dog" we felt an obligation to acquire Norma Tanega's song about such a cat...our cat, that is.