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Which Version Is Better?

Michael Jackson:



or Alien Ant Farm?

 
I've got a funny story for this thread. My old man came of age playing early 60's surfing music, like this one from the Ventures:



Anyway, he went on to become a Radio DJ and he'd emcee a lot of concerts that would come to town that were sponsored by the Station where he worked. So one day in the late 80's, he emceed a Chet Akins concert and after the show the two of them were blowing off steam back in Chet's dressing room with a little jam session, and, of course, Dad went to his old standards, and started playing "Walk, Don't Run", and he noticed Chet watching him playing it and smiling a little... even asked him to show him the chords and everything. Anyways, about a year or two later, Chet was on Austin City Limits and he walks in on stage playing "Walk, Don't Run" and Dad goes, "That SOB stole my song! I taught him how to play that!"



Dad went to his grave thinking that he taught Chet Atkins to play "Walk, Don't Run"....

Turns out ol' Chet wrote the song!
 
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Cordelier said:
I've got a funny story for this thread. My old man came of age playing early 60's surfing music, like this one from the Ventures:



Anyway, he went on to become a Radio DJ and he'd emcee a lot of concerts that would come to town that were sponsored by the Station where he worked. So one day in the late 80's, he emceed a Chet Akins concert and after the show the two of them were blowing off steam back in Chet's dressing room with a little jam session, and, of course, Dad went to his old standards, and started playing "Walk, Don't Run", and he noticed Chet watching him playing it and smiling a little... even asked him to show him the chords and everything. Anyways, about a year or two later, Chet was on Austin City Limits and he walks in on stage playing "Walk, Don't Run" and Dad goes, "That SOB stole my song! I taught him how to play that!"



Dad went to his grave thinking that he taught Chet Atkins to play "Walk, Don't Run"....

Turns out ol' Chet wrote the song!
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Nope.

"Walk, Don't Run" is an instrumental composition written and originally recorded by jazz guitarist Johnny Smith in 1954, which achieved worldwide fame when The Ventures recorded a cover version in 1960.
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Walk, Don't Run (instrumental) - Wikipedia

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