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"Walk Away Renée" is a song written by Michael Brown, Bob Calilli, and Tony Sansone for the band the Left Banke, released as a single in July 1966. Steve Martin Caro is featured on lead vocals. It spent 13 weeks on the US charts, with a top spot of No. 5. [ 6 ]
Walk Away Renée/Pretty Ballerina: June 1967 "Desiree'" b/w "I've Got Something on My Mind" (from Walk Away Renee/Pretty Ballerina) Smash 2119 98 127 — The Left Banke Too: June 1968 "Dark Is the Bark" b/w "My Friend Today" Smash 2165 — — — November 1968 "Goodbye Holly" b/w "Sing Little Bird Sing" Smash 2198 — — — February 1969 ...
Walk Away Renée/Pretty Ballerina is the debut studio album by the American baroque pop band the Left Banke, released in January 1967. Named after its two hit singles, " Walk Away Renée " and " Pretty Ballerina ", it peaked at number 67 on the Billboard Albums chart. [ 3 ]
Brown was the principal songwriter for the 1960s baroque-pop group the Left Banke, writing their two biggest hits, "Walk Away Renee" and "Pretty Ballerina". [1] He also was a harpsichordist and clavinet player for the band. [2] "
Intended as a companion to Caouette's first film, Tarnation, Walk Away Renee documents Caouette's cross-country journey with his mother, Renee Leblanc. Leblanc, diagnosed with acute bipolar and schizoaffective disorder, is to enter an assisted living facility close to Caouette's home, therefore necessitating a move from Houston to New York City.
The original Left Banke version of the song was sung by Steve Martin Caro and it is one of several songs that Brown wrote about singer Renee Fladen, the girlfriend of Left Banke guitarist Tom Finn and the object of Brown's affections. Other songs written about her include the band's biggest hit, "Walk Away Renée", and "She May Call You Up ...
Fladen is said to have been the inspiration of the Left Banke songs "Walk Away Renée" (1966), [5] [6] "Pretty Ballerina" (1966) [7] [8] and "She May Call You Up Tonight" (1967). Fladen married Howard I. Kamm (born 1946) in 1967, but the couple divorced in San Francisco in 1974.
There's Gonna Be a Storm: The Complete Recordings 1966–1969 is a compilation album by American baroque pop band the Left Banke, released by Mercury Records in 1992. [1] It contains the entirety of the band's two 1960s albums Walk Away Renée/Pretty Ballerina and The Left Banke Too, with an additional four tracks having appeared on singles only, and one previously unreleased track, "Men Are ...