Album of the Day

California-born Norma Tanega moved to New York in the 1960s to pursue a career in the arts; eventually drawn to the Greenwich Village music scene, she became one of the era’s most beloved folk-pop eccentrics. With Four Seasons hitmaker Bob Crewe in her corner, Tanega came up with “Walkin' My Cat Named Dog,” a much-covered 1966 hit inspired by her apartment building’s “no dogs” policy. It became the title track to the singer-songwriter’s debut album, which also features such treats as “No Stranger Am I,” “Hey Girl” and “You're Dead,” a song that decades later would become the theme to TV's vampire comedy What We Do in the Shadows. We’ll wish you a Happy Halloween with the strange and beguiling WALKIN’ MY CAT NAMED DOG.