Tune Req: Walk Right In (from Rooftop Singers)

Subject: Search help: Walk Right In
From:
Date: 15 Aug 98 - 09:58 PM

Well, I've struck out in all my online database searches. Hopefully, someone on this forum can help. I'm trying to find a score (or at minimum, the basic chords and lyrics) for the Rooftop Singer's number "Walk Right In". Failing a score, if anyone knows the composer and/or who has the rights to the song, I'd appreciate the contact info. The only thing I've found is their "vinyl" and a sound clip. Thanks for any leads. //bb

Subject: RE: Search help: Walk Right In
From: Dale Rose
Date: 15 Aug 98 - 11:30 PM

We had this discussion a while back. I have moved the thread in question up to the top.

Lyrics, composer, etc. is all over there, no score though.

Subject: Chords Add: WALK RIGHT IN
From: Roger Himler
Date: 16 Aug 98 - 06:07 PM

elkid,

Follow this link to find the words. The chord progression is fairly standard.

First line C A7 D7 G7 C G7
Second line C A7 D7 G7
Third line C C7 F D7(or the diminished chord)
Last line C A7 D7 G7 C G7

If you are new to guitar, this may seem obscure, but perhaps you can translate it given that you have some audio for the song.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Search help: Walk Right In
From: Roger Himler
Date: 16 Aug 98 - 06:11 PM

Oops, the link didn't work. Probably a typo. Go to the thread list and see Dale Rose RE: Lyrics to and find the words in there. Sorry my HTML is not up to par.

Roger in Baltimore

Link's fixed, Roger. I find it's best to copy the URL from the "address" window on my browser, and then paste it into the link you're building. Links require the HTTP and all that other stuff, or else they don't work.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Search help: Walk Right In
From: BB
Date: 16 Aug 98 - 08:04 PM

Thanks, Roger and Dale for your assistance and for all of you that added to the wonderful detail info from the May thread. Dale, just FYI, I did try searching the older threads, but didn't get a match - - hence the posing of my request. Of course, it's quite possible that there was something wrong with my search criteria.

Again, thanks for your help. Regards, Barbara B.

Subject: RE: Search help: Walk Right In
From: Joe Offer
Date: 16 Aug 98 - 08:39 PM

Barbara, it's best to use the "forum search" instead of the filter. The filter only goes back for a year, and the word or phrase you're looking for has to be in the thread title. The "forum search," one of Max's more recent innovations, is vastly more powerful.
-Joe Offer-

Subject: RE: Search help: Walk Right In
From: Roger Himler
Date: 16 Aug 98 - 09:40 PM

Joe O.

Thanks for the hint. Seems so much simpler your way.

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Search help: Walk Right In
From:
Date: 17 Aug 98 - 02:54 AM

*CLICK HERE* To hear a recording of Walk Right In
By the Rooftop Singers.

In the Folk Songs of the 50's & 60's section..

Subject: walk right in
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Jan 00 - 09:18 PM

Is there anyone here who can help me with the chords to Walk right in? thanks

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: walk right in
From: Sourdough
Date: 30 Jan 00 - 03:31 PM

I tried the chords that were listed in the link and unless I am misremembering how the song goes, they aren't quite right. Of course, now I am caught up in the half-remembered song which is insisting in streaking through my consciousness in shards and slivers.

There is a link in the old thread that used to lead to a recording of the Rooftop Singers but, to borrow a phrase from physical anthropology, that link is now missing. I am left with a twelve string guitar and a ten fingered set of hands, all twitching to try out the bass line of "Walk Right In"

Help!

Sourdough

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: walk right in
From: Gary T
Date: 30 Jan 00 - 04:00 PM

I would say the chords there are OK, but the "spacing" isn't obvious. See if this helps. For the key of C: (The A, D, & G chords here could just as well be A7, D7, & G7.)

C - C A D G C G
C - C A D - G -
C - C - C - F -
C - C A D G C -

The C7 and D7 in the third line of the linked post would fit in, but strike me as optional embellishment.

Subject: The Rooftop Singers
From: X
Date: 09 Apr 02 - 04:46 PM

Does anyone know where I can find guitar tab for the guitar solo for the song "Walk Right In"?

Thanks.

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: The Rooftop Singers
From: khandu
Date: 10 Apr 02 - 12:00 AM

I think this will do it!

khandu

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: The Rooftop Singers
From: khandu
Date: 10 Apr 02 - 12:03 AM

No. Sorry. That did not do it.

khandu

Subject: RE: Lyr/Chords Req: The Rooftop Singers
From: X
Date: 10 Apr 02 - 02:11 AM

khandu:

Thanks, I was there this morning. Didn't do it then.

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Walk Right In (from Rooftop Singers)
From: Mr Happy
Date: 20 Aug 09 - 09:25 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vua14HR8Cxg

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Walk Right In (from Rooftop Singers)
From: Leadfingers
Date: 20 Aug 09 - 10:08 AM

But DONT sing it in Singapore , unless they have cancelled the 1970 ban !!

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Walk Right In (from Rooftop Singers)
From: Barbara
Date: 20 Aug 09 - 10:46 PM

This is one of the first things I learned to pick and play on the guitar, in 1964 or so. If it is still needed I can put together a MIDI and/or the chords I learned. Probably from one of those Mel Bay books or something like.
Blessings,
Barbara

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Walk Right In (from Rooftop Singers)
From: Charley Noble
Date: 20 Aug 09 - 11:18 PM

Hearing the Roof Top Singers in Greenwich Village in the 1960's was my first exposure to " contemporary" folk music. I was outraged, however, how much I had to pay for my soft drink. I believe Leon Bibb was also there that night and in spite of the outrageous cover charge my brother and I were quite thrilled to be there.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Walk Right In (from Rooftop Singers)
From: GUEST,Banjo Ray
Date: 21 Aug 09 - 03:12 AM

I'm astonished that this thread contains no reference to the guy who wrote the song. This was Gus Cannon, an excellent black American banjo player who played in Gus Cannon's Jug Stompers in the twenties.

Ray

Subject: RE: Tune Req: Walk Right In (from Rooftop Singers)
From: Joe Offer
Date: 21 Aug 09 - 03:45 AM

Aw, Ray, this is just a tune/chords thread. You'll see we did justice to Gus Cannon way back in 1997 in the origins thread.
-Joe-