Rockers Revenge Featuring Donnie Calvin – Walking On Sunshine '82

Walking On Sunshine '88 (Shakedown 12" Mix) - A classic mix by Arthur Baker with all those samples.

What a release ....

1982 Extended version are so deep
Pure electro funk, like house musique best produced by Idjut Boys, Harvey, Faze Action, Little Louie Vega and others best House Jazz Funk produce.

Arthur Baker put arrangment like a Qunincy Jones but for Synth Funk ....

A pure gem for all guy in thoses retro groove synth

This is the stuff I'm into currently. Found this in Paris one rainy afternoon. The live element mix is so electrifying. I am in love with the existence of this mix. Shout out TechnoImport for blessing me some gems!

My mate was a DJ in the 80s. When this record came out he had to play it 4 times in a row as people just couldn't get enough of it. Revolutionary sound in its day.

Absolute Garage classic....a cover of the also Garage classic by Eddy Grant of course, but this version is notable for Fred Zarr's synthwork on the Prophet-5, which is BRILLIANT.
For this reason, the dub mix "Rockin on Sunshine" wins the cigar here.

I could name about 20 different releases that use samples from this record. One weird thing about this release is that two tracks have identical names but differeing lengths. Walking on Sunshine ’82 is 9:30 on Side A and 4:30 on side B. No mixes mentioned....

The always excellent Kraak & Smaak released this amazing track a few years ago which samples the main vocal from this. Top stuff.

from the label credits and tracklisting I think this is Rockers Revenge, not Eddy Grant

The original 12" on Streetwise calls the main vocal version and its edit "Walking on Sunshine '82" which seems to imply there was a pre-1982 version by Rockers Revenge. Actually, the '82 is just referring to the fact that it's an update (a cover version, in this case) of Eddy Grant's 1978 disco song.

Dance Community - Rappers Delight by Sugarhill Gang came out 1979 and it is a record that is ACE( Chic epic -good times came out either 1979 and they sampled the bassline of it quick the same year-15:00 minutes of dancefloor pleasure- it started it all.

What is then a Rockers Revenge- walking into sunshine from 1982?? Only 3 Years after the release of Rappers Delight , Walking on Sunshine by Rockers Revenge came out.

Its not a similiar Dance/ Rap record-but its ACE and groundbreaking too its the earliest House Sound Record I know- before House Music was known by name to Djs, Dancers and the world.

I dont say the records are the best of all dance records I know, but both made had a greater audience in europes discotheques than many others

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The straight beat and drums and the clever effect/ dub ideas using two classic 80ies funk records- on the rockin sunshine mix Arthur Baker grabs like a criminal element just for a 45 seconds in the mix Central Lines classic -walking into sunshine- and D-Train s classic -youre the one for me-.

But this is not all. At the early time of 1982 they added here on this 12"a subtleness and a pure dancefloor oriented percussion energy that in this combination was new and for me, this is a very early experience in the later called style HOUSE Music.
They Sampled, they Edited

Thanks to Arthur Baker and The Rockers Revenge. May this be in a better ranking someday.