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 pop-folk 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 vampire comedy TV series What We Do in the Shadows. Gear up for Halloween with the strange and beguiling WALKIN’ MY CAT NAMED DOG.