Walk This Way

Tyler and Perry wrote it. It was recorded in January and February 1975 at the Record Plant in New York with Jack Douglas producing. The title came from Douglas, after the band saw Young Frankenstein and laughed at a Marty Feldman line. The single came out in August 1975 and was released again in November 1976. It reached number 10 on the Hot 100 and number 7 in Canada and on Cash Box, and went twice platinum in the United States. The Grammy Hall of Fame inducted it in 2019.

The Run-DMC version

On 9 March 1986 Run-DMC recorded their version, produced by Russell Simmons and Rick Rubin, for the album Raising Hell, released 4 July 1986. Rubin pulled out the Toys in the Attic record, and Tyler and Perry re-recorded their parts. The single, which runs 3:38 against 5:17 on the album, reached number 4 on the Hot 100, the first hip-hop single in the top five, as well as number 8 in the United Kingdom and number 1 in New Zealand. Jon Small directed the video, shot at the Park Theater in Union City, New Jersey, on a budget of $67,000, with the two acts on either side of a wall. Both versions are in the Grammy Hall of Fame, and the pairing is considered a landmark of hip-hop and rock crossover.