| 词条 | Walk the Dinosaur | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| name = Walk the Dinosaur | cover = Was (Not Was) - Walk the Dinosaur.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = Was (Not Was) | album = What Up, Dog? | released = 1987 | format = | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = Funk[1] | length = 4:22 | label = {{unbulleted list|Chrysalis (US)|Fontana/Phonogram (UK)}} | writer = {{hlist|David Was|Don Was|Randy Jacobs}} | producer = {{hlist|David Was|Don Was}} | prev_title = Spy in the House of Love | prev_year = 1987 | next_title = The Boy's Gone Crazy | next_year = 1987 }} "Walk the Dinosaur" is a song by Was (Not Was), released in 1987, from their album, What Up, Dog?. Song infoThe song features a tight, funky sound, punctuated by horns and a cowbell, along with what sounds like cavepeople chanting in the background. When released in the UK in 1987, the song reached No. 10 on the singles chart, becoming the group's first UK top 10 hit. The music video featured four scantily clad 'cavewomen' dancing to the song while a Flintstones style TV played clips from Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur. Modern people danced to the song in the "Everybody walk the dinosaur" part. The video received heavy rotation on MTV. The song reached No. 7 on the US chart in 1989, two years after its UK success. The song became the band's biggest hit single in their home country. According to an interview with co-writer Randy Jacobs, it "was an infectious sing-along with a Flintstonesque video that probably got played on MTV way too much. But even that seemingly good-time anthem had a dark side. [...] The song’s about nuclear Armageddon. It became a dance (anthem) because of the video. They connected it with the girls in the little Pebbles and Bam-Bam outfits. All the sudden it became, like, 'do the mashed potato' or 'the twist.'"[2] Chart performance{{col-begin}}{{col-2}}Weekly charts
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References1. ^{{cite book|first= Colin |last= Larkin |authorlink= Colin Larkin (writer) |title= The Encyclopedia of Popular Music |edition= 5th |year= 2011 |publisher= Omnibus Press |quote= [Was (Not Was)] international breakthrough came several years later with the sublime funk of the US/UK Top 10 hit 'Walk The Dinosaur'. |page= 3810}} 2. ^{{cite news|first= Brian J. |last= Bowe |title= Out come the freaks |newspaper= Metro Times |date= December 29, 2004 |accessdate= May 3, 2018 |url= https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/out-come-the-freaks/Content?oid=2180376}} 3. ^1 {{cite web|title= Forum – ARIA Charts: Special Occasion Charts – Top 100 End of Year AMR Charts – 1980s |publisher= Australian-charts.com. Hung Medien |url= http://australian-charts.com/forum.asp?todo=viewthread&id=40275 |accessdate= June 19, 2014}} 4. ^{{cite web|title= Radio 2 Top 30 : 21 november 1987 |publisher= Top 30 |accessdate= June 19, 2014 |url= http://www.radio2.be/top-30/1987/11/21 |language= nl}} 5. ^{{cite web|url= http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.6330&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=u9874ano8k0c5b6bkp4r8qrbp3 |title= Top Singles – Volume 50, No. 1, May 01 1989 |work= RPM |publisher= Library and Archives Canada |accessdate= June 1, 2013}} 6. ^{{cite web|url= http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.6331&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=u9874ano8k0c5b6bkp4r8qrbp3 |title= Retail Sales – Volume 50, No. 2, May 08 1989 |work= RPM |publisher= Library and Archives Canada |accessdate= June 18, 2014}} 7. ^{{cite web|title= Indice per Interprete: W |publisher= Hit Parade Italia. Creative Commons |url= http://www.hitparadeitalia.it/indici/per_interprete/aw.htm |accessdate= June 19, 2014 |language= it}} 8. ^{{cite web|title= South African Rock Lists Website SA Charts 1969 – 1989 Acts (W) |publisher= Rock.co.za |url= http://www.rock.co.za/files/springbok_top_20_(W).html |accessdate= June 1, 2013}} 9. ^1 2 3 {{cite web|title= What Up Dog – Awards |publisher= AllMusic. All Media Network |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/what-up-dog-mw0000201834/awards |accessdate= June 1, 2013}} 10. ^{{webarchive|title= CASH BOX Top 100 Singles – Week ending APRIL 1, 1989 |date= October 7, 2012 |url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121007171824/http://cashboxmagazine.com/archives/80s_files/19890401.html}}. Cash Box magazine. 11. ^{{cite web|url= http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/rpm/028020-119.01-e.php?&file_num=nlc008388.6684&type=1&interval=20&PHPSESSID=u9874ano8k0c5b6bkp4r8qrbp3 |title= Top Singles – Volume 51, No. 8, December 23 1989 |work= RPM |publisher= Library and Archives Canada |accessdate= June 19, 2014}} 12. ^{{cite web|first= Tom |last= Demalon |url= http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-flintstones-original-soundtrack-mw0000113331 |title= Original Soundtrack – The Flintstones [Original Soundtrack] |publisher= AllMusic. All Media Network |accessdate= 12 July 2013}} 13. ^{{cite web|first= Adam |last= Greenberg |url= https://www.allmusic.com/album/super-mario-brothers-mw0000618853 |title= Original Soundtrack – Super Mario Brothers |website= AllMusic |accessdate= 26 January 2018}} External links
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