Walkin' My Cat Named Dog by Norma Tanga, released on New Voice in 1966.

Norma Cecilia Tanega (January 30, 1939 – December 29, 2019)[2] was an American folk and pop singer-songwriter, painter, and experimental musician...She also wrote "You're Dead", which was used as the theme song of the film What We Do in the Shadows and the TV series of the same name.

Her first single, "Walkin' My Cat Named Dog", became an international hit in 1966...Tanega's impetus for the song came from living in a New York City apartment building that did not allow dogs; instead she owned a cat, which she named "Dog" and took for walks...

...its popularity spawned several cover versions by contemporary artists. A month after Tanega's single entered the charts, Barry McGuire cut a version...The T-Bones did an instrumental take on it ...and both the Jazz Crusaders and Art Blakey released jazz treatments of the song in 1967.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4jUZ-Ex1k0&list=PLGd7gsyfthRvcl1IZavCJ8D_q4OVtIrwT&index=1

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