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Walk Don't Run
Metadata
- title
- Walk Don't Run
- meaning
- The Ventures surf instrumental as Moonlight Beach opener: Encinitas beach-pop claiming the local boardwalk before the originals kick in.
- year
- 2023
- release
- Moonlight Beach
- releaseType
- album
- artist
- Scoobert Doobert
- artistId
- #scoobert
- cover
- true
- coverOf
- The Ventures
- spotify
- https://open.spotify.com/track/1G8wtDWTgS0fBKquvGpMIC
- themes
- The beach
- San Diego
- cover
- The Ventures
- Moonlight Beach
- Encinitas
- isrc
- QZES62358095
- isrcSource
- soundexchange
- credits
- DistroKid credit pane: Music, Johnny Smith. Producer, mixing engineer, recording engineer, drums, bass, guitar, synthesizer, and singing and vocals billed as Scoobert Doobert. Mastering engineer, Riley Knapp.
- draft
- false
Content
Opener on Moonlight Beach, Scoobert’s cover of The Ventures’ 1960 surf-guitar standard “Walk Don't Run.” The DistroKid credit pane lists the music as Johnny Smith. Producer, mixing, recording, drums, bass, guitar, synthesizer, and singing are billed as Scoobert Doobert. Riley Knapp mastered it. The LP essay frames the record as a place-record: named Encinitas geography, covers, guests, and songs built to play outside. Starting with a Ventures pass signals beach-guitar lineage before the originals (Feels So Good, Ocean View, etc.).
Public radio logs show FIP) plays for this cover alongside Dancing in the Moonlight (Beach): part of the French/German radio traction around the Moonlight Beach era.
DistroKid cover: Luke did not write the original. Streaming links only; no lyrics.