Over at NPR.com, Tom Cole posted a nice tribute to Ventures guitarist Bob Bogle, complete with “Walk, Don’t Run” for streaming:

The Ventures will always be remembered for Walk, Don’t Run and an early-’60s West Coast rock sound. The influence of Walk, Don’t Run is HUGE. While few guitarists could master the smooth alternate picking of the Johnny Smith original or the distinctive fingerwork of Chet Atkins’ remake, The Ventures provided a way in for every kid who touched an electric guitar in the early 1960s.

The Ventures became known as The Band That Launched a Thousand Bands. Every budding guitarist I knew in junior high could pick out a rudimentary version of Walk, Don’t Run.