| "Walk with You" | ||||
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| Single byRingo Starr featuringPaul McCartney | ||||
| from the albumY Not | ||||
| Released | 22 December 2009 | |||
| Genre | Rock | |||
| Label | Hip-O Records | |||
| Songwriters | Richard Starkey,Van Dyke Parks | |||
| Producers | Ringo Starr, Bruce Sugar | |||
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"Walk with You" is a song byRingo Starr, released as a single from his 2010 studio albumY Not. It features fellow formerBeatlePaul McCartney on backing vocals and bass. The track was not originally conceived as a collaboration with McCartney, who originally only planned to play bass on "Peace Dream."[1]
The song was also used as Starr's entry on theiTunes exclusive 4-trackBeatles EP4: John Paul George Ringo, released in 2014.
In a promotional video, Starr said that "Walk with You" was originally intended to be a "gospelly" song.[2] Starr calledVan Dyke Parks and asked him to collaborate on writing a "God song," but Parks said he did not write about God. They reworked the melody and completed the track as a song about thepower of friendship.[2][3] During the recording of "Peace Dream," Starr played Paul McCartney several tracks he had completed forY Not. McCartney developed the "trailing" duet in the melody of "Walk with You."[2]
