Fact #15125

Sonny Curtis (songwriter) : On June 14, 1960, I was inducted into the Army. I already had the lick for Walk Right Back, then one Sunday afternoon in Fort Ord, CA, where I was stationed, I wrote one verse of the song. On a weekend pass to L.A., I sang it to Don and Phil. They said they would record it if I would write another verse. On my leave between Fort Ord and Fort Gordon, Georgia, I wrote another verse and sent it to them, but they had already recorded the song. They just sang the same verse twice. It was released the day I arrived in France for an eighteen-month tour of duty.
(Source : not known)