Walk the Dinosaur

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"Walk the Dinosaur"
File:Was (Not Was) - Walk the Dinosaur.jpg
Single by Was (Not Was)
from the album What Up, Dog?
Released September 1987
Genre Funk[1]
Length 4:22
Label
Writer(s)
  • David Was
  • Don Was
  • Randy Jacobs
Producer(s)
Was (Not Was) singles chronology
"Spy in the House of Love"
(1987)		 "Walk the Dinosaur"
(1987)		 "The Boy's Gone Crazy"
(1987)

"Walk the Dinosaur" is a hit single recorded and released by the band Was (Not Was) in 1987, later featured on their hit 1988 album, What Up, Dog?.

Song info

The song features a tight, funky sound, punctuated by horns and cowbell, along with what sounds like cavepeople chanting in the background, while the lyrics relate to nuclear Armageddon.

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, Jacobs says. "It became a dance 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]

When released in the UK in 1987, the song reached no. 10 on the charts, becoming the group's first Top 10 hit there. After the music video---which featured four scantily clad cavewomen dancing to the song, a Flintstones-style TV playing clips from Daffy Duck and the Dinosaur, and then modern people dancing to the song in the "Everybody kill the dinosaur" part---received heavy rotation on MTV, the song reached no. 7 on the U.S. chart in 1989, two years after its UK success. The song is the biggest hit single for the band in their home country.

Chart performance

In popular culture

References

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  18. ↑ "Archive Chart: 1987-10-31" UK Singles Chart. Retrieved July 12, 2013.
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  20. ↑ CASH BOX Top 100 Singles – Week ending APRIL 1, 1989 at the Wayback Machine (archived October 7, 2012). Cash Box magazine. Retrieved June 19, 2014.
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