BIOGRAPHY
David Walker (1941-1986), born and raised in Washington, D.C., trained as a boxer and sparred with Archie Moore before turning to gospel music, joining the Mighty Clouds of Joy in the late 1950s. To keep his gospel standing intact, he recorded secular material under the alias Bunker Hill. In mid-1962 he cut five tracks with Link Wray and his Raymen at Wray's Three Track Shack studio in Maryland, including "The Girl Can't Dance" and "Hide and Go Seek." The latter reached #27 on the Billboard R&B chart and #33 on the Hot 100, later appearing in the 1988 film Hairspray. His identity was eventually discovered and he was asked to leave the Mighty Clouds of Joy; he continued performing with the group before leaving music in the late 1960s and died in Houston, Texas, in 1986.