Walls (Circus)

"Walls (Circus)"
Single by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
from the album Songs and Music from "She's the One"
Released July 29, 1996 (1996-07-29)
Format Cassette, CD
Genre Rock
Length 4:25
Label Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s) Tom Petty
Producer(s) Rick Rubin, Tom Petty, Mike Campbell
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers singles chronology
"A Higher Place"
(1995)		 "Walls (Circus)"
(1996)		 "Free Girl Now"
(1999)

"A Higher Place"
(1995)		 "Walls (Circus)"
(1996)		 "Free Girl Now"
(1999)

"Walls (Circus)" is a song written by Tom Petty and recorded by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers. It was released in July 1996 as the first single from their soundtrack album Songs and Music from "She's the One". The song features Lindsey Buckingham on background vocals. The song peaked at number 69 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.[1] The song was recorded at Sound City Studios by engineer Sylvia Massy. An alternate arrangement of the song, played at a faster tempo, was included on the soundtrack under the title "Walls (No. 3)". The song was later covered by Glen Campbell on his 2008 album Meet Glen Campbell and by The Lumineers on the one year anniversary of his death.

Music video

Maxine Bahns, Edward Burns and Jennifer Aniston appeared in the video. The music video was directed by Phil Joanou and was premiered in July 1996.

Charts

Weekly charts

Chart (1996) Peak
position
Canadian RPM Top Singles 2[2]
U.S. Billboard Album Rock Tracks 6
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 69[1]

Year-end charts

Chart (1996) Position
Canada Top Singles (RPM)[3] 32

"Walls (No. 3)"

"Walls (No. 3)"
Song by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Released August 6, 1996
Length 3:03
Label Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s) Tom Petty
Producer(s) Rick Rubin, Tom Petty, Mike Campbell

Track 12 on the album is a faster, more mellow version titled "Walls (No. 3)". It has the same lyrics and melody, but the intro is different and the song in general has less emphasis on the instruments. It is the version that was more commonly performed by the band in concert.

References

  1. 1 2 Joel Whitburn, Joel Whitburn's Top Pop Singles: 1955–2010, Record Research, 2011.
  2. ↑ "Top Singles - Volume 64, No. 4, September 09 1996" (Retrieved July 28, 2015)
  3. ↑ "RPM Top 100 Hit Tracks of 1996". RPM. Retrieved November 26, 2017.


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