Walkin' My Cat Named Dog - Norma Tanega (1966)

[mercury73732]

I am renaming my cat "Dogg", in honor of this song.

[MsSilentfairy]

kewl....so honest..life in not the fast lane...the lane of life...thank u

[OldiesMusicKathy]

Love this song!!! I totally forgot about it!! It's been years since I've heard it. So good to see this video too! Waaaay back in 1966! What great memories from that era; just an 8th grader then (13 years old). Wow how time flies! This song actually has a melody and pretty harmony, so unlike much of the music today.

Thanks for sharing, clotho98. Kathy

[RoyFive]

I learned the word "perpetual" from listening to this song. Who says contemporary music isn't educational?

[JohnnyCxviii]

This is a terrific song. One of kind, though its whimsy reminds me of Melanie Safka's Brand New Key.

[eaogden]

Haven't heard this song since it came out but it has always haunted me. So glad to find it here. Brings back many 60's memories

[searayus1]

Like to have that SG today............

[Ingeneer1977]

Забористая трава была

[harmonicaspit]

There's on harmonica passage towards the end of the song that sounds like Stevie Wonder from "Fingertips." Couldn't find any info in this regards on the web. Anyone know anything about who played on this song other then Norma Tanega? This song's just just as catchy today as it was 45 years ago.

[c0llid0r]

she wrote a gorg song for dusty called no stranger am i...wonderful lyrics and melody..its on dusty definately i think..x

[46razzledazzle]

I was rather young when this song was released but I always remembered it. Just loved the beat, rhythm, voice and most of all the name. I never really knew most of the words but it always stayed with me. A great, unique 60's hit. Thanks for posting.

[spiritartist100]

blows my mind so sixtieish quintessential

[carew388]

choking up my mind with perpetual motion?

[victormorris1]

What a fond memory. I am lost in the 60's

[richardcameronwood]

FIRST TIME I HEARD CAT NAMED DOG SINCE 1967..

[victrolaman]

Oh my, but I thought that the only one that could ever reach her was the sweet talkin son of a Preacher Man??

[victrolaman]

I understand she was very good friends with Dusty Springfield. Did she ever chart with any other song?

[Jeannenyc57]

@victrolaman she and Dusty were lovers at one time

[mrhayz600]

my older brother hipped me to this song..he said hey check this out walkin my cat named dog asif it was a prelude the wild psychedelic times just ahead

[gainsbarre13]

Anybody know the chords?

[MaceMn]

great tune. ty 4 postin'.

[andrewr62]

This is just weird.

[arfracer]

it's those chandeliers hangin off her ears that frightens me.

[cantplaythis]

Haha! I think of this song alot cuz some nights I walk my cat named Merlin! Sometimes his girlfriend Kiki and another cat or two join us. When I was keeping a dog for a friend, the cats would caravan after us - day and night!

[kungfufarting]

Were is John Bellusi when you need him! I dont care if it is a Gibson SG, someone should smash it into little parts so she can never play this kind of crap again.

[blackmore4]

@kungfufarting Hopefully one of those "little parts" would fly off and lodge itself in your throat so that you can never spew "that kind of crap" again.

[zhidoni]

This song brings back happy memories of when I was a kid, hiking with my girlfriend through the spring flowers up on Cahuenga Peaks. (can't do that anymore!)We listened to this song on KHJ

[spurtong]

You, Clotho98, have just made me become reborn! I've thought about this wonderfully happy little tune a couple of times over the years and now here it is, on video, no less, and performed by beautiful Norma. Thanks for making my day! And blessings to all.

[PhillipCreeper]

Fantastic!  Brings back great memories! Thanks for sharing!

[KKG51]

I too was 11 years old in 1966 and remember this song very well now that I see it. I had totally forgotten about it... many thanks to the poster!!!

[cshargeit]

i was taking guitar lessons in a music/record store and someone came in and asked if they had "cat named dog" record... they did not. this is a rare rarity.

[linabat789]

What a nice song! Songs like this aren't popular anymore :(

[kismet818]

I myself wasn't a teenager in 1966, but pretty close. I was 11 years old and in the sixth grade at San Jacinto Elementary in good old El Paso, Texas. I distinctly remember listening to this great song on my transistor radio walking to school one morning in '66. I had never seen Norma actually performing this song till now. Still sounds great!!! Thanks for post.

[ivycompton]

The whole album this is from is wonderful. I had the LP for years, then finally somebody put it out on CD, thank god. I didn't realize Norma and Dusty were lovers. Cool!

[Sheepbone]

Haha, great song

[sillydream1969]

if the word COOL ever applied to

anything.

...this is the top of the pyramid of all

cool songs'..........

[RonaldVaughan]

Note that Norma Tanega is playing an ELECTRIC

guitar...unheard-of by women in the Sixties!

I never saw this video before! Where did it

come from?? Though I'm aware of this classic

rock song...thanks for posting this!

[buzzthjerk]

UMMMMMM ..she's just faking thru the lip sync with that electric cuz it looks way cooler than the boring folk acoustic she really plays. GOTTA step it up a notch on tv!. She has a very lovely voice and very cool acoustic folk style ..studio musicians fill out the sound...get the cd ..GREAT!

[hubbellgardner]

this DOES NOT belong on Dusty Springfield page

[OctoberOhio]

Norma and Dusty were lovers and lived together for about 4 years in the late sixties...so exactly why does it not belong here?

[buzzthjerk]

OH why can we not just enjoy the music of a beautiful talented woman without SOMEBODY dredging up who she prefers to be intimate with ...this is directed at BOTH sides of the issue!

[ekocentric]

@buzzthjerk I don't know who you are responding to but, I have to tell you that a lot of youtubers either write to prove that other racial groups are substandard or that they are gay. It's obvious that a lot of people don't come here just to listen to the music....lol

[Nicklas4500]

Apart from being her lover, Norma Tanega provided lyrics for a few of Dusty's songs, such as 'The Colour of your eyes', and 'Morning' (originally Brazilian) on the Dusty...Definitely album in '68, where in the sleeve notes Dusty describes her as "a writer of immense talent and a fine recording artiste in her own right".