Yup-sold my soul for music and it turned out to be the most Inspiring beautiful life long thing I could ever have imagined. Through it I saved my soul. As to H20orHell (Below) Think they are living in the most ungodly hell imaginable
One of my life's little pleasures was to sing this with Mr. Thomas and Mavis Staples in a rehearsal. (I was just staying at the same hotel.) Later I took some of the band members to House of Blues to see Little Richard, whose humongous limo transported him to his hotel -- across the street. Trivial but fun.
@JASONCALEDONIA ,,, i was gonna say the Beatles never did cover songs,,that they were pure genius above an beyond..which really is the true,,but they did a few cover's early in their span,,but the Stones,,,did percentage wise...many more than the Beatles. and fact be true,,,Jagger's first hit song,,,was written by J&P on a napkin in a club one night and given to keith an mick,,,,as a token of their friendship,,and in turn,,it was the Stones 1st record....I wanna b ur man.
@JASONCALEDONIA Aerosmith did a ROCKING cover of this tune. It was the first I ever heard, when I was a lad of 10 and just starting down the wonderful road of musical sin and fornication known as Rock & Roll. Now, I'm leading my own daughter down this road. At the age of 4 her first favorite rock song was "The Yeah Yeah Song" by Devo, proper title "Uncontrollable Urge". Hey, she is totally turned off by a lot of crappy top 40 music now at the age of 9, so I guess its cool.
He died of heart failure in 2001, at the age of 84, at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis. A street is named in his honor, just off Beale Street in Memphis. He is buried next to his wife at the New Park Cemetery in Memphis. I love ya' too Rufus!
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I did not curse at you, I stated a str8 fact. It is apparent by your reference to Mr. Thomas' lips and your subsequent comment back to civicshrine that my assessment of you is correct.
@chsn09 The crux of your comment??? You can say nay all day long but comments like that are in NO WAY funny...and no one but a racist would find them so. The term you use for a person of color is totally racist and offensive to many people, quite a few of whom are white. I don't even care to hear your explanation as to how you think your original comment was in any way funny. If by chance you feel like it was a joke, then you ought to be aware that many do not find it in any way funny.
@TheGranny1952 ONce again you missed the point. The point is/was that many black ppl bitch and scream about how the N word is being used and complain in certain situation and then use it amongst themselves. As a black friend once said "it's no wonder why the world laughs at niggers".
I don't care if you are "mixed" or not. You are also obviously too young to understand that just because black people use the term with an A attached to the end of it, rather than an ER that does not render the N word inoffensive. I have often heard blacks say "It means a stingy person" so it doesn't bother me". Actually the term they refer to is niggardly, meaning stingy. Niggardly is offensive because of the fact that blacks HAD to be frugal because they were allowed so little.
@TheGranny1952 You do NOT even know how old I am so young this old that does NOT mean shit. And ER or A it does NOT matter. NO ONE should be using the word. You proved my point. NO ONE should be using the word period. No one should be using the word. YOu still fail to understand the crux of what I was trying to prove.
Nigger, nigga, nikka; NO ONE SHOULD USE IT PERIOD!
@chsn09 The point is well taken, but what you said did not serve any purpose other than to make you look like a big ass racist. I did NOT say anyone should use that word, try a reading comprehension course, if you missed that...I said changing the spelling or saying a similar word means something benign does NOT make it "inoffensive", please try to pay attention. BUT, you are correct...NO ONE ought to say words like those...that is what I take offense at, no matter who says it.
@TheGranny1952 You do NOT even know how old I am so young this old that does NOT mean shit. And ER or A it does NOT matter. NO ONE should be using the word. You proved my point. NO ONE should be using the word period. No one should be using the word. YOu still fail to understand the crux of what I was trying to prove.
Nigger, nigga, nikka; NO ONE SHOULD USE IT PERIOD!
@TheGranny1952 agree with most of what you're saying but the term niggardly has ***nothing*** to do, has never had anything to do, with that other word. They come from totally different roots. They may sound similar but what you say about "Niggardly is offensive because of the fact that blacks HAD to be frugal because they were allowed so little" is not so because it's a completely, totally, different word. Like saying catastrophe comes from cats knocking things over or something.
"Niggardly" is an adverb derivation of "Niggard" which means "a parsimonious person, a grudging giver". This word has been in the English language since at least the 14th century (and, and was introduced from Scandinavia.
The word "nigger" is derived from the Spanish word for "black" -- negro -- which came to be used to describe a dark-skinned person. "Nigger" has only been in the English language since the 18th century.
I can remember when this song was banned on a lot of stations and "doin the dog" the dance was absolutely banned on college campuses.Yea, I was in college when this song came out. Raising your leg got you kicked out of the dance. hahha. Boy things were "straight " back then.
Damn, this takes me w-a-y back and my brothers trying to teach me how to dance this.....Now mind, I was only a small child......I never did learn......29 Nov 10
In April 1953, Rufus Thomas had a song called "Bear Cat" on the Sun label in Memphis. "Bear Cat" was an "answer" song to the original version of "Hound Dog" by Willie Mae Thornton. "Bear Cat" stayed on the R&B chart for 8 weeks, peaking at #3.
In February 1963, Stax Records released "The Dog" by Rufus Thomas. It stayed on the R&B chart only 3 weeks, peaking at #22.
This song, "Walking The Dog" was a bigger hit (at #5), in October 1963.
Like B.B. King, Rufus Thomas was a DJ at WDIA in Memphis.
I saw the incomparable Rufus in Memphis in 1992 at the Memphis In May festival. He took the stage in bright orange shorts and a pith helmet. He was already an old dude, but he was wayyyy too young and fun for everyone in the audience! He did "Walking The Dog" and half the audience was screaming out the lyrics, while the young kids that didn't know the song were also screaming when they heard it. I never had such a good time in my life. I was so glad I got to see him. I love you, Rufus!
The dog was such a scandalous dance that if grandmothers caught their "babies" doing it, they would get a switch and fire up your hind parts, then pray that Jesus would take those demons from her sweet little "grandchilren".
musicrokzmyworld you are the biggest failure... words can not describe how much i hate u... if i knew where u lived i would burn your house down..green day sucks my large hairy testie's and my dingle berriesssss! suck my johnson fehg
Hi Amanda, I'm sorry about ekalen6's pathetic immaturity and foul language. I thought Green Day's version was actually a bit limp, but they are nice guys, and I like quite a few of their songs. They used to come in my shop regularly and I've jammed with Billie Jo and Matt a few times. Haven't seen them around as much since they got mega-huge, but they were always nice when I saw them.
Rufus is a very young man on this clip. I got a chance to meet him before he died. I got to tell him how much I appreciated what his music had done for me, I hugged him. He about 80 then! What a Guy!
No one had done this song better than Rufus himself. But THE best cover I've ever heard done has been by bluesman Luther "Guitar Jr." Johnson...he plays it often, be sure to catch Luther live when you can.
My wife and I joined Rufus Thomas and Delmark Golfarb for lunch at the Sun Studio Cafe in Memphis. Delmark pitched the Rose City Blues Festival to Rufus. Delmark explained that the festival was sponsored by Miller Breweries and by Seagram Distilleries.
Rufus interrupted. "Wait a minute. Let me see if I've got this straight. You're going to have both whiskey AND beer? Hmmmmmm... you can't go wrong there!"
Memphis was a great place to grow up-A place where us WHITE Kids were given the great good fortune to know and love people like Rufus Thomas -Sam and Dave-Issac Hayes. We WERE Lucky,we knew it and learned from it.Learned that music has no boundries and knows no colors..
Life could be like music--if we'd all be still and let it..
Two reasons--I don't think all White kids were lucky enough to have talent like that right in their own back yards..Back then in Memphis-music was everything and everybody was making it or trying too..We got to see people like Rufus and Issac and Duck Dunn long before they got famous..And best of all for us broke teenagers --we saw them cheap,sometimes even for free...
The second reason is something I hadn't realized til you asked me this question ( continued below )
You rock on in everyone's heart! Thanks for being a part of my life...and allowing so many others to reach success by covering you. Classic.
islandfever 3 days ago in playlist Music
Groovy
austinthebookworm5 3 weeks ago
By the originator.....Rufus Thomas!!!!!
agape4tube 1 month ago
I was in high school, we loved this song, and the dance we did with it. Our parents loudly objected to the dance.
agape4tube 1 month ago
1965? The Stones play it in 1964.
Not possible
FransPannekeet 1 month ago
@FransPannekeet Rufus originally recorded it in 1963. He was surely performing it in '65.
BuzCzar 4 days ago
10 years ago R.I.P. ...
Boombatze 1 month ago
by anychance is there video footage of him performing with Joe Hill Louis?
busessuck1 1 month ago
The story of my life.
sandhorse1 2 months ago
So good!
RAMLIA1 2 months ago
absolutly love this song
loriann38059 2 months ago
Magic Sam i lik
zietda2 2 months ago
really rowdy video if you consider the times. Id probly be scared as shit in that group of kids in the audience
..hahaha...now it seems so tame...
skidrowsux1977 3 months ago
Yup-sold my soul for music and it turned out to be the most Inspiring beautiful life long thing I could ever have imagined. Through it I saved my soul. As to H20orHell (Below) Think they are living in the most ungodly hell imaginable
bpolh2 3 months ago
One of my life's little pleasures was to sing this with Mr. Thomas and Mavis Staples in a rehearsal. (I was just staying at the same hotel.) Later I took some of the band members to House of Blues to see Little Richard, whose humongous limo transported him to his hotel -- across the street. Trivial but fun.
nicmart 4 months ago 3
The Stones copyed this note for note. They have the best cover of this song
JASONCALEDONIA 5 months ago
@JASONCALEDONIA ,,, i was gonna say the Beatles never did cover songs,,that they were pure genius above an beyond..which really is the true,,but they did a few cover's early in their span,,but the Stones,,,did percentage wise...many more than the Beatles. and fact be true,,,Jagger's first hit song,,,was written by J&P on a napkin in a club one night and given to keith an mick,,,,as a token of their friendship,,and in turn,,it was the Stones 1st record....I wanna b ur man.
CHUCKLOVES1969 4 months ago
@JASONCALEDONIA Aerosmith did a ROCKING cover of this tune. It was the first I ever heard, when I was a lad of 10 and just starting down the wonderful road of musical sin and fornication known as Rock & Roll. Now, I'm leading my own daughter down this road. At the age of 4 her first favorite rock song was "The Yeah Yeah Song" by Devo, proper title "Uncontrollable Urge". Hey, she is totally turned off by a lot of crappy top 40 music now at the age of 9, so I guess its cool.
learningrichard 2 months ago
Loving it!
FINofficial 5 months ago
Very nice Rufus! I'm more familiar of the Aerosmith version, though, but this is a very nice roots and blues classic by Rufus himself!
Animelloveer 5 months ago 2
where is the HD version of this vid =P
Rulitop 5 months ago
@Rulitop Sorry, there wasn't fucking time machines at the time.
StupidFuckingTrolls 3 months ago
Thanks for posting this - I love him and had never seen a clip. Wish I had caught him live :-(
susaninmaine 6 months ago
17 people don't know how to walk the dog
susaninmaine 6 months ago 2
Love this stuff...now thats music.....
Hholeo8 6 months ago
the troggs do a good one too
philipperholland 7 months ago
I met him, when he played a charity show at Elvis presley's menphis, back in 1997, I got his autograph, he was great to talk to.... god bless x
ss180jay 7 months ago
no love for springsteen? he did this song too.
gmoop12 7 months ago
He died of heart failure in 2001, at the age of 84, at St. Francis Hospital in Memphis. A street is named in his honor, just off Beale Street in Memphis. He is buried next to his wife at the New Park Cemetery in Memphis. I love ya' too Rufus!
islandfever 7 months ago 2
why are so many people on this site such belligerent, bellowing, raging-infant fucking ass holes? It's fucking MUSIC, for fuck's sake
MusicWriter1965 8 months ago 46
@MusicWriter1965 You forgot "butt-hurt".
Quasi8 6 months ago
@MusicWriter1965 Youtube -
They Sold Their Souls For Rock And Roll
But as for the cowardly, the faithless, the polluted, as for murderers,
fornicators, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars, their lot shall be in
the lake that burns with fire and sulphur, which is the second death
Revelation 21:8
JESUS SAVES
H2OorHELL 4 months ago
@MusicWriter1965 calm down puppy
Beelzubub13 2 months ago
@MusicWriter1965 That's awesome, couldn't say it better myself. I concur 100%!
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noelbeatles 8 months ago
like this like all type of music
4512marquis 9 months ago
@4512marquis im glad you make sense.
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Damn this dude in the video has got some big fat nigger lips ROFL
chsn09 9 months ago
@chsn09 that is so racist
civicshrine 9 months ago
@civicshrine ROFL! Thanks I know haha
chsn09 9 months ago
@chsn09
You are an absolute ignorant ass...
TheGranny1952 9 months ago
@TheGranny1952 It takes one to know one bitch. So go take your ignorant ass somewhere else and fuck off!
chsn09 9 months ago
@chsn09
Well what do you know, you didn't deny the accusation, just got mad. Why am I not surprised?
TheGranny1952 9 months ago
@TheGranny1952 LOL! You are the one that got mad fool. No one is mad. You were the one who came her cursing at me haha.
chsn09 9 months ago
@chsn09
I did not curse at you, I stated a str8 fact. It is apparent by your reference to Mr. Thomas' lips and your subsequent comment back to civicshrine that my assessment of you is correct.
TheGranny1952 9 months ago
@TheGranny1952 Wow it is amazing how you cannot take a joke lmao. You still do not get the crux of my original comment!
chsn09 9 months ago
@chsn09 The crux of your comment??? You can say nay all day long but comments like that are in NO WAY funny...and no one but a racist would find them so. The term you use for a person of color is totally racist and offensive to many people, quite a few of whom are white. I don't even care to hear your explanation as to how you think your original comment was in any way funny. If by chance you feel like it was a joke, then you ought to be aware that many do not find it in any way funny.
TheGranny1952 9 months ago
@TheGranny1952 ONce again you missed the point. The point is/was that many black ppl bitch and scream about how the N word is being used and complain in certain situation and then use it amongst themselves. As a black friend once said "it's no wonder why the world laughs at niggers".
BTW I am mixed
chsn09 9 months ago
@chsn09
I don't care if you are "mixed" or not. You are also obviously too young to understand that just because black people use the term with an A attached to the end of it, rather than an ER that does not render the N word inoffensive. I have often heard blacks say "It means a stingy person" so it doesn't bother me". Actually the term they refer to is niggardly, meaning stingy. Niggardly is offensive because of the fact that blacks HAD to be frugal because they were allowed so little.
TheGranny1952 9 months ago
@TheGranny1952 You do NOT even know how old I am so young this old that does NOT mean shit. And ER or A it does NOT matter. NO ONE should be using the word. You proved my point. NO ONE should be using the word period. No one should be using the word. YOu still fail to understand the crux of what I was trying to prove.
Nigger, nigga, nikka; NO ONE SHOULD USE IT PERIOD!
chsn09 9 months ago
@chsn09 The point is well taken, but what you said did not serve any purpose other than to make you look like a big ass racist. I did NOT say anyone should use that word, try a reading comprehension course, if you missed that...I said changing the spelling or saying a similar word means something benign does NOT make it "inoffensive", please try to pay attention. BUT, you are correct...NO ONE ought to say words like those...that is what I take offense at, no matter who says it.
TheGranny1952 9 months ago
@TheGranny1952 You do NOT even know how old I am so young this old that does NOT mean shit. And ER or A it does NOT matter. NO ONE should be using the word. You proved my point. NO ONE should be using the word period. No one should be using the word. YOu still fail to understand the crux of what I was trying to prove.
Nigger, nigga, nikka; NO ONE SHOULD USE IT PERIOD!
chsn09 9 months ago 3
@chsn09 YAWN, shut up please.....
ss180jay 7 months ago
@chsn09 wrote:
"NO ONE should be using the word period."
I suggest "epoch" be used instead of [the word which chsn09 has unilaterally banned from the common lexicon].
Terangeree 1 month ago
@TheGranny1952 agree with most of what you're saying but the term niggardly has ***nothing*** to do, has never had anything to do, with that other word. They come from totally different roots. They may sound similar but what you say about "Niggardly is offensive because of the fact that blacks HAD to be frugal because they were allowed so little" is not so because it's a completely, totally, different word. Like saying catastrophe comes from cats knocking things over or something.
susaninmaine 6 months ago 10
@TheGranny1952
"Niggardly" is an adverb derivation of "Niggard" which means "a parsimonious person, a grudging giver". This word has been in the English language since at least the 14th century (and, and was introduced from Scandinavia.
The word "nigger" is derived from the Spanish word for "black" -- negro -- which came to be used to describe a dark-skinned person. "Nigger" has only been in the English language since the 18th century.
Terangeree 1 month ago
@Terangeree I agree. Plain logic.
PlusMusicMan 1 month ago
jackie shane's cover kills this
rovernio 9 months ago
Thanks for the song, Rufus (and all the other songs)
debiedog1 9 months ago
ONE OF THE MOST UNDER RATED BLACK PERFORMERS IN HISTORY, RIP
lcolby11 10 months ago 2
ONE OF THE UNDER RATED BLACK PERFORMERS IN HISTORY, RIP
lcolby11 10 months ago
Lol Coxhill on tenor?
freakzone09 10 months ago
i'm 21 years old and rufus thomas is the best!!!
davemawston6 10 months ago
I'm 45 years old and Rufus Thomas is good.
ecnalubma696969 10 months ago 2
I can remember when this song was banned on a lot of stations and "doin the dog" the dance was absolutely banned on college campuses.Yea, I was in college when this song came out. Raising your leg got you kicked out of the dance. hahha. Boy things were "straight " back then.
afticker 1 year ago
I hadn't realized til I heard this how much it is similar to my 'Barko the Clown Dog'. Gr8 song!!
MrDennisCLee 1 year ago
rufus isnt the original.its an old 1920's blues song.
emaclynch 1 year ago
@emaclynch
Rufus Thomas wrote Walking The Dog & it was first released on Stax Records in 1963
SIDNEYSTRATTON 1 year ago
@emaclynch well damn dood, you got a cut or the 1920s recording, even if its from the 1930s, 40s, or 50s? That would be AWESOME to hear.
learningrichard 2 months ago
Saw him perform this song in a club on Printers Alley Nashville Tn in June 1998 whilst we were on a trip from the UK.
TheBassman62 1 year ago
I was watching "A Family Thing" with Bobby Duvall and James Earle Jones--anyway there is a bit part--a grocer Good God it was Rufus Thomas!!
vivascargill 1 year ago
does anyone know who played bari mostly for rufus?
djbrout 1 year ago
Rufus rocks but this band is all over the place. Where's the fucking groove?!
Scotttyist 1 year ago
i LIstened to Aerosmith's version, and the orignal here,,both! WERE PRETTY GOOD
why not try THE EVERLY BROTHERS VERSION TOO - REALLY pretty good --
nadinesdream 1 year ago
Damn, this takes me w-a-y back and my brothers trying to teach me how to dance this.....Now mind, I was only a small child......I never did learn......29 Nov 10
macarthur261 1 year ago
Green Day's version is awesome.
BasKerplunCase 1 year ago
@BasKerplunCase didnt know there was one - thanks
Mosley2 1 year ago
Aerosmith.
ruffles272 1 year ago
walk it brother.
EXPYouthProgram 1 year ago
well found kido
SATDprod 1 year ago
Epic!
1963Pure 1 year ago
In April 1953, Rufus Thomas had a song called "Bear Cat" on the Sun label in Memphis. "Bear Cat" was an "answer" song to the original version of "Hound Dog" by Willie Mae Thornton. "Bear Cat" stayed on the R&B chart for 8 weeks, peaking at #3.
In February 1963, Stax Records released "The Dog" by Rufus Thomas. It stayed on the R&B chart only 3 weeks, peaking at #22.
This song, "Walking The Dog" was a bigger hit (at #5), in October 1963.
Like B.B. King, Rufus Thomas was a DJ at WDIA in Memphis.
georgethedj 1 year ago
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georgethedj 1 year ago
The tenor man is a real cool daddy.
onthegoldenline 1 year ago
lol my great grandma started doin the dance when she heard this
gogitta25 1 year ago
Great stuff! :) The kind that plants seeds in minds of others.
ertccty 1 year ago
awesome!
sonicsteev 1 year ago
hes got those people right in the palm of his hand...Great Frontman!
chewyflea 1 year ago
Historico....quien subió esto se merece mis respetos.
deipier28 1 year ago
incredible song, great video! thanks for sharing!
triantal 1 year ago
incredible song, great video! thanks for sharing!
triantal 1 year ago
This song is just plain bad ass. I have heard it done by Aerosmith and Ratt, no matter who does it...it rocks..that's a great song!!!
bezzle 757....you are a true idiot. the best thing about you is that someday you'll die.
68django 1 year ago
yeah the big allrounder ...cant sit still! yeah
voodoowop45s 1 year ago 2
Uncle Remus! :-)
440John 1 year ago
Oh cool! Love this! Not sure what he's exactly talking about, but love the beat anyways! . . . wink!
bluesforU2 1 year ago 2
oooh yeah!
VALTRONICA 1 year ago
Rufus is tha bomb...ima show you how to walk tha dogg!lol
Amherstkd25 1 year ago
loks like a blue gum to me
MrUnassumption 1 year ago
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that nigga look shook in front of all them white people like they gonna string'em up after the show 0:24
bezzle757 1 year ago
@bezzle757 Are you auditioning to be an arsehole or don't you know because you are one??
weenyone 1 year ago
@bezzle757 go look at something with teeny boppers in it idiot and let us see the art without your ass in the way .
babzc 1 year ago 4
I never heared of this song. Walking the dog. Thnks for posting. So that is Rufus.
TheIxtlan 1 year ago
typical mod drummer with the snare in his lap ...
PHAEDRIDER 1 year ago
The original line dancing music!
jim78250 1 year ago
Sing it Rufus!!!!! I still want to hit the floor when I hear this....if it just wasn't for my 60 year old bad knees!
thegreenieye 1 year ago
I'M 17 AND LOVE THIS SONG ! :)
msbrandoncurry 1 year ago
@msbrandoncurry
Shit, I'm 13 and I love this song...
Age is not a determining factor when it comes to sniffing out good tunes.
lNHUMANE 1 year ago 4
@lNHUMANE yeah say it loud and proud cause im 13 also and i am completely with you on that
jasmineheart209 1 year ago
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FUCK YOU NIGGER
fuckwitit10 1 year ago
@RBCHILD4EV Thank you my dear friend for sharing a great classic and memory!! Rufus Rocks big time!!! Peace & love!
Thank you blaxter47 for a great post!
2009Denisem 1 year ago
Absolutely stunning. Best version of this song !! Rufus ROCKS!!
Cupidville 1 year ago
Great singing by Rufus. Great feel by the unsung white band that makes the music here.
TruthAxe 1 year ago 3
Rufus Thomas seems like a fun person. I wanna take a walk with his dog.
TO0DLES213 1 year ago
This is great, Aerosmith did great, the Rolling Stones....I was dissapointed..
StevenTylerIsMyLife 1 year ago 2
I had always wondered who did the original version of this song, fucking GREAT!
Aerosmith can eat a big old bucket of diarrhea, The Sonics did the best cover of it
KnifeStrangleBeat 1 year ago
@KnifeStrangleBeat
Aerosmith that is a very good rock band messed that song up, thats true.
LillaSophie 1 year ago
i wish i had a dog i could walk while listening to this song lol
josejacome 1 year ago
Thank you, blaxter47, for uploading this Rufus Thomas gem from a bygone era! Yikes! Clearly THEE best version of the song ~ (•8-D
Clematisian 1 year ago 2
Nobody could EVER do a Rufus Thomas song better than Rufus Thomas!! He was always as youthful as anyone cool enough to enjoy him!!
weenielongus 1 year ago 7
why they had to banned the dog song it was the shit!!!
BBsMAsACRA92 1 year ago
Love it ! Thanx ! xo -c-c-
curiouschile 2 years ago
i prefer the aerosmith version because i like that style, but i always think original > cover.
sueellen360 2 years ago
2 each his own...that's why it's called music to your ears......
55Medusa 2 years ago
aerosmiths' version of this is so awesome
kalleskit 2 years ago
I saw the incomparable Rufus in Memphis in 1992 at the Memphis In May festival. He took the stage in bright orange shorts and a pith helmet. He was already an old dude, but he was wayyyy too young and fun for everyone in the audience! He did "Walking The Dog" and half the audience was screaming out the lyrics, while the young kids that didn't know the song were also screaming when they heard it. I never had such a good time in my life. I was so glad I got to see him. I love you, Rufus!
goddessinsecta 2 years ago 39
CHild I believe you.
1psoas9 2 years ago
@goddessinsecta my guess for the kids knowing it would be because of the cover that areosmith did a few years prior
revskullfker 1 year ago
woohoo!! do the mashed potatoe :)
youcandance12345 2 years ago
this is the best one all the way !
DSilius 2 years ago 4
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rocksdiamonds 2 years ago
no mattered who covered this---i am 68 yrs old and rufus is the original and no one can beat the original
slovacek59 2 years ago 78
@slovacek59 Very well stated brother!
michelesaintthomas 1 year ago
@slovacek59 I love Mr Rufus, but you need to listen to Jackie Shane version
mrstanbmw 6 months ago
i like the stones version better, i like the beat better and i think u can move to it better...but both good
jaqua524 2 years ago
The dog was such a scandalous dance that if grandmothers caught their "babies" doing it, they would get a switch and fire up your hind parts, then pray that Jesus would take those demons from her sweet little "grandchilren".
luvureally 2 years ago 5
Aerosmith and Ratt both covered this on their first albums. Rufus is just THE stuff, and was a great DJ.
JDMRTN342 2 years ago 4
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The Rolling Stones - walking the dog(cover)
/watch?v=0lnkm9ReVyo
lemonskunk2 2 years ago
this music its great! and it starts with the Portuguese Anthem :)
ifwuatiw 2 years ago 2
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rory gallagher + frankie miller = best version of this song
b00nz00 2 years ago
aerosmith covered this also. don't know about the stones. never heard them do it. aerosmith's version is awesome! check it out!
chi7aero4gm 2 years ago
The Rolling Stones covered this. Their version's alright ,but, Rufus's version is still the best.
bandcouver 2 years ago 5
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musicrokzmyworld you are the biggest failure... words can not describe how much i hate u... if i knew where u lived i would burn your house down..green day sucks my large hairy testie's and my dingle berriesssss! suck my johnson fehg
ekalen6 2 years ago
shut up.
I love this song in general, i was saying that i also enjoyed their version as well
way to be a dick
musicrokzmyworld 2 years ago
First time I heard this song was on True Blood ^^) LOL And now I love it!
spongebobslushpants1 2 years ago
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I love Green Day's version of this song. lol
musicrokzmyworld 2 years ago
Hi Amanda, I'm sorry about ekalen6's pathetic immaturity and foul language. I thought Green Day's version was actually a bit limp, but they are nice guys, and I like quite a few of their songs. They used to come in my shop regularly and I've jammed with Billie Jo and Matt a few times. Haven't seen them around as much since they got mega-huge, but they were always nice when I saw them.
ironbuttermilk 2 years ago
that is SO COOL!
You have no idea how amazing that is!
and thanks for sticking up for me, i Highly appreciate it!
musicrokzmyworld 2 years ago
how original! no wonder such little is expected from youtube racists
kuriosity89 2 years ago 2
truth hurts, don't it?
kuriosity89 2 years ago
and you look like one of those rednecks from back in the day you'd see eating your cousin's dick with a big ol' grin on your face.
kuriosity89 2 years ago
The First Funk Song ??!!
RAPCAT60 2 years ago
So covering a song that you enjoy is now called "stealing" eh?
Guitar5986 2 years ago 3
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
best song ever !!!!!!!!!
FrisbiJump 2 years ago
when will people learn that just because a comment is racist doesnt mean it cant be funny
rocknrollporn 2 years ago
haha yeah and he stole this song from Aerosmith!
thewild 2 years ago
you idiot he made it first they stole from him.
1118t100smd 2 years ago
Rufus is a very young man on this clip. I got a chance to meet him before he died. I got to tell him how much I appreciated what his music had done for me, I hugged him. He about 80 then! What a Guy!
antiann52 2 years ago
that is Lol Coxhill (famous UK soprano saxophone improviser )playing tenor?!! this clip is from an UK television show of Rufus Thomas tour.
booksteve 2 years ago
shut up you racist piece of crap
psychostupe 2 years ago 2
gunmunky you are a racist idiot.
veeseee128 2 years ago
Check out rory gallagher and Frankie Miller doing it at Rockpalast.
Amazing!!!
PanchPOI 2 years ago
No one had done this song better than Rufus himself. But THE best cover I've ever heard done has been by bluesman Luther "Guitar Jr." Johnson...he plays it often, be sure to catch Luther live when you can.
OrrCountry 2 years ago
great song. you should look up the aerosmith cover.
extremebucsfan 2 years ago
Way to go, blaxter 47. This post improves the world.
alejhombre 2 years ago 2
Seven years after this Wattsax amazing! This dude could move with the times!
delboy65 2 years ago
Memphis also had Sam the Sham and Ronnie Millsap in the 60s
bartlettbooks 2 years ago
My best friend went out with Sam a few times back then..I understand he's a born again Christian now-- doing Gospel Music .
railwalker1 2 years ago
i'm doing this song in my band. Great inspiration!
Prebster90 2 years ago
can some one get it on to a clear song on to you tube
gen456789 2 years ago
omg this was in "the cutting edge"
xosassymoonox 2 years ago
Rufus is the man.
quilope 2 years ago
if you don't know how to do it. i'll show you how to walk the dog =)
MummaMia77 3 years ago
My wife and I joined Rufus Thomas and Delmark Golfarb for lunch at the Sun Studio Cafe in Memphis. Delmark pitched the Rose City Blues Festival to Rufus. Delmark explained that the festival was sponsored by Miller Breweries and by Seagram Distilleries.
Rufus interrupted. "Wait a minute. Let me see if I've got this straight. You're going to have both whiskey AND beer? Hmmmmmm... you can't go wrong there!"
randalbyrd 3 years ago 4
Thanks for the insight. =-) =-D
JosephKuby 3 years ago
He looks like the buler from prince of bel air
samuyel1 3 years ago
Geoffrey was his name....or "G"
imitationgruel 3 years ago
Memphis was a great place to grow up-A place where us WHITE Kids were given the great good fortune to know and love people like Rufus Thomas -Sam and Dave-Issac Hayes. We WERE Lucky,we knew it and learned from it.Learned that music has no boundries and knows no colors..
Life could be like music--if we'd all be still and let it..
railwalker1 3 years ago 4
why did you emphasize white
CorneliusMcGee 2 years ago
Two reasons--I don't think all White kids were lucky enough to have talent like that right in their own back yards..Back then in Memphis-music was everything and everybody was making it or trying too..We got to see people like Rufus and Issac and Duck Dunn long before they got famous..And best of all for us broke teenagers --we saw them cheap,sometimes even for free...
The second reason is something I hadn't realized til you asked me this question ( continued below )
railwalker1 2 years ago