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Walk This Way

WALK THIS WAY
 
 
"Walk This Way"  is a song by the American hard rock band Aerosmith.  Written by Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, the song was originally released as the second single from the album Toys in the Attic (1975).  It peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 in early 1977, part of a string of successful hit singles for the band in the 1970s.  It was one of the songs that helped break Aerosmith into the mainstream in the 1970s.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
An early example is one of the first big hits by Aerosmith, “Walk This Way”, where most of the vocals are sung much faster than the beat of the music; it is taken from their third album, Toys in the Attic (1975).  A decade later, Run-D.M.C. included a remake of “Walk This Way” on their album Raising Hell (1986), with Steven Tyler and Joe Perry of Aerosmith sitting in on vocals and guitar, respectively.  The two groups also collaborated on a video that was in heavy rotation on MTV.  This was one of the first times that rock music and rap music were melded together.
 
(September 2016)