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“Walk Away Renée” is a song made popular by the band The Left Banke in 1966 (single release: July 1966, Smash Records, title printed as “Walk Away Renee”), composed by the group’s then 16-year-old keyboard player Michael Brown (real name Michael Lookofsky) and Tony Sansone. Bob Calilli is also credited as a writer, though he didn’t actually write any of the lyrics or music - he received credit in exchange for setting up the session in which the writing stage of the song was completed. The song was also a chart hit for the Motown group The Four Tops in 1968. The song features a flute solo played during the instrumental bridge of the middle portion of the song. Michael Brown got the idea for the flute solo from The Mamas & the Papas song “California Dreamin’“ which... Read on...