"I'm,
Walkin' - This top selling song was performed
on episode "Ricky
the Drummer" (April
10, 1957) on family situation comedy series THE ADVENTURES OF OZZIE AND HARRIET/ABC/1952-56. Reportedly, seventeen-year-old Ricky Nelson (who
played himself on the series) had been pestering his father,
Ozzie to let him sing on the show and to make a record. Ricky
wanted to impress a girl he'd been dating who had laughed at
him when he suggested he could record a song. Approving his
son's idea, Ricky performed the Fats Domino Hit I'm Walkin'
and it immediately went to the top of the charts. In one week,
his version had sold one million copies. On the 1/2/58 episode
he sang Traveling Man. Similar successes occurred on a
January 1962 episode of THE DONNA REED SHOW/ABC/1958-66, as
Paul Peterson, who played Jeff, the teenage son of the Stone
Family sang a novelty song She Can't Find Her Keys as
part of a dream sequence in which he was a recording star. The
national exposure via television made it a major hit.
See also "Johnny
Angel"
I'm Walkin'
Words and Music by
Antoine Domino and Dave Bartholomew
I'm walkin', yes indeed I'm talkin'
For you and me and I'm hoping
That you'll come back to me
I'm lonely as I can be
And I've waited for your company
And I'm hoping that you'll come back to me
Whatcha gonna do when the well runs dry
You gonna run away and hide
I'm gonna run right by your side
For you, pretty baby, I'd even die
I'm walkin', yes indeed I'm talkin'
For you and me and I'm hoping
That you'll come back to me
(Instrumental Interlude)
I'm walkin', yes indeed I'm talkin'
For you and me and I'm hoping
That you'll come back to me
I'm lonely as I can be
And I've waited for your company
And I'm hoping that you'll come back to me
What'cha gonna do when the well runs dry
You gonna run away and hide
I'm gonna run right by your side
For you, pretty baby, I'd even die
I'm walkin', yes indeed I'm talkin'
For you and me and I'm hoping
That you'll come back to me