when was walk on the wild side written
1972
title: Walk on the Wild Side (David and Bernstein song) text: Walk on the Wild Side (David and Bernstein song) "Walk on the Wild Side" originated as the title song of the 1962 film as performed by Brook Benton over the film's coda and closing credits. Lyrics were written by Mack David and music was by Elmer Bernstein. The two earned an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song. The song evokes the jazz and gospel music musical styles of the film's New Orleans setting, and the reputation of its Storyville district. It addresses an unnamed straying Christian — or perhaps all who and seems to threaten them in terms understood within title: Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed song) text: peaked at #16 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 singles charts in early 1973. After the announcement of Reed's death in October 2013, both the song and the "Transformer" album re-charted via iTunes. Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed song) "Walk on the Wild Side" is a song by Lou Reed from his second solo album, "Transformer" (1972). It was produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson, and released as a double A-side with "Perfect Day". The song received wide radio coverage, despite its touching on taboo topics such as transsexual people, drugs, male prostitution, and oral sex. In the title: Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed song) text: Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed song) "Walk on the Wild Side" is a song by Lou Reed from his second solo album, "Transformer" (1972). It was produced by David Bowie and Mick Ronson, and released as a double A-side with "Perfect Day". The song received wide radio coverage, despite its touching on taboo topics such as transsexual people, drugs, male prostitution, and oral sex. In the United States, RCA released the single using an edited version of the song without the reference to oral sex. In 2010, Rolling Stone ranked it at number 223 in its list of title: Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed song) text: the 500 greatest songs of all time. The lyrics, describing a series of individuals and their journeys to New York City, refer to several of the regular "superstars" at Andy Warhol's New York studio, the Factory, namely Holly Woodlawn, Candy Darling, Joe Dallesandro, Jackie Curtis and Joe Campbell (referred to in the song by his nickname "Sugar Plum Fairy"). Candy Darling was also the subject of Reed's earlier song for The Velvet Underground, "Candy Says". Two decades after the song's release, Reed told interviewer David Fricke, "I know my obituary has already been written. And it starts out, "Doot, di-doot, title: Walk on the Wild Side (Lou Reed song) text: pay to £34 (). In the 2001 documentary "Classic Albums: Lou Reed: Transformer", Reed says that it was Nelson Algren's 1956 novel, "A Walk on the Wild Side" (itself titled after the 1952 song "The Wild Side of Life"), that was the launching point for the song, even though, as it grew, the song became inhabited by characters from his own life. As with several other Reed songs from the 1970s, the title may also be an allusion to an earlier song, in this case Mack David and Elmer Bernstein's song of the same name, the Academy Award-nominated title song