Walkin' My Baby Back Home (song)

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"Walkin' My Baby Back Home" is a popular song.

It was written by Fred E. Ahlert and Roy Turk in 1930. It first charted in 1931 with versions by Nick Lucas (#8), Ted Weems (also #8), the Charleston Chasers (#15), and Lee Morse (#18).

A recording made by Jo Stafford on November 9, 1945, was released by Capitol Records as catalog number 20049, and on an album, Songs by Jo Stafford, (catalog number B-D23).

Harry Richman recorded the song on November 4, 1947. This version was released by Decca Records as catalog number 24391.

A major hit version of it was recorded by Nat King Cole, on September 4, 1951 and released by Capitol Records as catalog number 2130. It went to #8 in 1952. The song also charted in 1952 at # 4 in a version recorded in February, 1952 by Johnnie Ray, released by Columbia Records as catalog number 39750, and was the title song from the 1953 film starring Donald O'Connor, Janet Leigh, Buddy Hackett, and Scatman Crothers.

In 1962, Monica Zetterlund recorded a version of this song with swedish lyrics by Beppe Wolgers entitled Sakta vi gå genom stan.

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Also Maurice Chevalier in English. (Was it in one of his films? If so, was there a French-language version?)

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