Norma Tanega

Vocalist/songwriter Norma Tanega is well known limited to her one strike, the novelty-tinged “Walkin’ My Kitty Named Pet dog,” which produced amount 22 in early 1966. There is hook folk-rock experience to the quantity, using its melancholy harmonica and back-up harmonies, yet it had been blended with some NY pop-soul creation. An upbeat amount with whimsical lyrics, it wasn’t that regular of her materials from that period, which was frequently within a folkier and much more serious vein, albeit generally provided crossover pop-folk agreements. Tanega found the eye of Plant Bernstein while performing like a music counselor at camps within the Catskill Mountains. Bernstein place her in touch with strike maker Bob Crewe (most well-known for his use the Four Months), and she was authorized to his New Tone of voice label. “Walkin’ My Kitty Named Puppy” was her 1st solitary, and her just success, quickly overlooked even from the requirements of ’60s one-hit miracles. Tanega do record other materials at New Tone of voice, now available within the Walkin’ My Kitty Named Dog Compact disc, which crossed folky selecting and her low vocals with some pop/rock and roll arrangements and back-up harmonies. Tanega was in fact a good, rather introspective composer in the first East Coast vocalist/songwriter vein. She was even more pop-oriented when compared to a Town folkies, certainly, however not really that slick either. Her tone of voice, however, wasn’t as much as the amount of her reasonably appealing material, since it wasn’t as expressive as much of her vocalist/songwriter peers operating the same designs, and actually tended to waver off-pitch, specifically in its higher range. Soon after “Walkin’ My Kitty Named Puppy,” Tanega relocated to Britain for five years, documenting an recording for RCA. After time for america, she became a percussionist, playing ceramic tools and making many albums with woodwind participant Brian Ransom. Later on she played globe music with Cross Vigor, and trained artwork and music in Southern California.