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'"Walk-Don't Run"' is a ground-breaking 1960 hit single by the Seattle-based instrumental rock band The Ventures. Although written and first performed by Johnny Smith, the Ventures' version is believed to be one of the first surfing songs to make the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at #2 and reaching #3 on the Cash Box magazine chart in the Summer of 1960. In addition to reaching #6 in Great Britain on the ''Record Retailer'' chart that Fall. The same band made an updated cover version of the song in 1964, called ''Walk Don't Run '64'' (which has a guitar riff similar to Misirlou), and that made it into the top-ten in the US that August. Chet Atkins also recorded a popular rendition of the song.