Walking on Sunshine is the title track of the critically acclaimed 1979 album by Reggae

Reggae

Reggae is a music genre first developed in Jamaica in the late 1960s. While sometimes used in a broader sense to refer to most types of Jamaican music, the term reggae more properly denotes a particular music style that originated following on the development of ska and rocksteady.Reggae is based...

 and Soca

Soca music

Soca is a style of music from Trinidad and Tobago. Soca is a musical development of traditional Trinidadian calypso, through loans from the 1960s onwards from predominantly black popular music....

 artist Eddy Grant

Eddy Grant

Edmond Montague "Eddy" Grant is a musician, born in Plaisance, Guyana.- Life and career :When he was still a young boy, his parents emigrated to London, UK, where he settled. He lived in Kentish Town and went to school at the Acland Burghley Secondary Modern at Tufnell Park...

 on the Parlophone

Parlophone

Parlophone is a record label that was founded in Germany in 1896 by the Carl Lindström Company as Parlophon. The British branch was formed in 1923 as "Parlophone" which developed a reputation in the 1920s as a leading jazz label. It was acquired in 1927 by the Columbia Graphophone Company which...

 music label. It was the follow-up to his 1977 album Message Man

Message Man

Message Man is the debut album by Eddy Grant. He plays every instrument and sings every voice on this album. The album is significant for its socio-political stance in songs such as "Race Hate" and "Cockney Black"...

. It features the hits singles, 'Living On The Front Line' and the title track. The former introduced Grant to the mainstream in the UK in 1979, peaking at number 11 in the charts while the latter was Grant's debut in the lower reaches of the US R&B charts (#86).

The title track was covered in 1982 by Rocker's Revenge

Rockers Revenge

Rockers Revenge was a studio musical project, assembled by producer Arthur Baker. Its initial entry on the Hot Dance Club Play chart, "Walking on Sunshine" hit #1 on the U.S. dance chart in 1982. The track reached #4 in the UK Singles Chart in September 1982...

 featuring Donnie Calvin, reaching number one in the USA dance charts in September that year.

Track listing

1. "Walking on Sunshine" - 5:22
2. "Living on the Front Line" - 5:57
3. "Front Line Symphony" - 7:23
4. "My Love, My Love" - 4:35
5. "Just Imagine I'm Loving You" - 6:35
6. "Dancing in Guyana" - 3:21
7. "Say I Love You" - 3:55
8. "We Are" - 4:42

Bonus tracks on deluxe version

1. "Say I Love You (Disco Version)" - 6:04
2. "Nobody's Got Time (Coach House Rhythm Section Pts. 1 & 2)" [Ice Single Version 1978] - 6:04
3. "Say I Love You (Wipe Mo Nfe E)" [Yoruba Version] - 15:37

Personnel

• Frank Agarrat - Engineer
• Jackie Robinson - Background vocals
• Kofi Ayivor - Conga
• Sonny Akpan - Conga
• George Agard - Background vocals
• Conrad Isadore - Drums, Background vocals
• Eddy Grant
  Eddy Grant
  Edmond Montague "Eddy" Grant is a musician, born in Plaisance, Guyana.- Life and career :When he was still a young boy, his parents emigrated to London, UK, where he settled. He lived in Kentish Town and went to school at the Acland Burghley Secondary Modern at Tufnell Park...
  
   - Engineer, Multi Instruments, Background vocals, Vocals
• Roy Bedeau - Background vocals

External links

• Walking on Sunshine on Discogs
  Discogs
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