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Scott Walker's success as a teen idol singer of Spectorish ballads with the Walker Brothers in no way prepared listeners for the mordant, despairing lyrics of his solo debut. To compound the surprise, he does his best to imitate the vocal girth of Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra on this mix of original tunes and covers, which also features sweeping, bloated orchestral arrangements. It was hardly rock, and pop of a most oddball sort, but it found a surprisingly large audience -- in Britain, anyway, where it reached the Top Three in 1967. Poke behind the velvet curtain of the languid MOR arrangements, and one finds a surprisingly literate existentialist at the helm of these proceedings. His lyrical nuances were probably lost on his audience of predominately teenage girls, though they've earned him a small cult audience that endures to this day. Besides presenting three of his own compositions, Walker covers tunes by Weill/Mann, Tim Hardin, and Andre & Dory Previn on this album, as well as three songs by his favorite writer, Jacques Brel. Highlights include his exquisitely anguished rendition of Brel's classic "Amsterdam" and his dramatic cover of the early-'60s Toni Fisher pop ballad "The Big Hurt."
© Richie Unterberger /TiVo
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Mort Shuman, ComposerLyricist - Jacques Brel, ComposerLyricist - Gérard Jouannest, ComposerLyricist - John Franz, Producer - Scott Walker, MainArtist - Wally Stott, Conductor, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Peter Olliff, Producer
℗ 1967 Mercury Records Limited
John Franz, Producer - Scott Walker, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Wally Stott, Conductor, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Peter Olliff, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1967 Mercury Records Limited
Barry Mann, ComposerLyricist - Cynthia Weil, ComposerLyricist - John Franz, Producer - Scott Walker, MainArtist - Reg Guest, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Peter Olliff, Producer
℗ 1967 Mercury Records Limited
Tim Hardin, ComposerLyricist - John Franz, Producer - Scott Walker, MainArtist - Reg Guest, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Peter Olliff, Producer
℗ 1967 Mercury Records Limited
Robert Wells, ComposerLyricist - JACK SEGAL, ComposerLyricist - John Franz, Producer - Scott Walker, MainArtist - Wally Stott, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Peter Olliff, Producer
℗ 1967 Mercury Records Limited
Mort Shuman, ComposerLyricist - Jacques Brel, ComposerLyricist - John Franz, Producer - Scott Walker, MainArtist - Reg Guest, Conductor, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1967 Mercury Records Limited
Wayne Shanklin, ComposerLyricist - John Franz, Producer - Scott Walker, MainArtist - Wally Stott, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Peter Olliff, Producer
℗ 1967 Mercury Records Limited
John Franz, Producer - Scott Walker, Vocals, MainArtist, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Wally Stott, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Peter Olliff, Engineer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1967 Mercury Records Limited
Dory Previn, ComposerLyricist - Andre Previn, ComposerLyricist - Peter Knight, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - John Franz, Producer - Scott Walker, MainArtist - Peter Olliff, Producer
℗ 1967 London Records Ltd.
Mack Gordon, ComposerLyricist - Peter Knight, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - John Franz, Producer - Scott Walker, MainArtist - Nessan, ComposerLyricist - Peter Olliff, Producer
℗ 1967 Mercury Records Limited
John Franz, Producer - Scott Walker, MainArtist, ComposerLyricist - Reg Guest, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Peter Olliff, Producer
℗ 1967 Mercury Records Limited
Mort Shuman, ComposerLyricist - Jacques Brel, ComposerLyricist - John Franz, Producer - Scott Walker, MainArtist - Wally Stott, Conductor - Wally Stott Orchestra, Orchestra - Peter Olliff, Producer
℗ 1967 Mercury Records Limited
Album review
Scott Walker's success as a teen idol singer of Spectorish ballads with the Walker Brothers in no way prepared listeners for the mordant, despairing lyrics of his solo debut. To compound the surprise, he does his best to imitate the vocal girth of Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra on this mix of original tunes and covers, which also features sweeping, bloated orchestral arrangements. It was hardly rock, and pop of a most oddball sort, but it found a surprisingly large audience -- in Britain, anyway, where it reached the Top Three in 1967. Poke behind the velvet curtain of the languid MOR arrangements, and one finds a surprisingly literate existentialist at the helm of these proceedings. His lyrical nuances were probably lost on his audience of predominately teenage girls, though they've earned him a small cult audience that endures to this day. Besides presenting three of his own compositions, Walker covers tunes by Weill/Mann, Tim Hardin, and Andre & Dory Previn on this album, as well as three songs by his favorite writer, Jacques Brel. Highlights include his exquisitely anguished rendition of Brel's classic "Amsterdam" and his dramatic cover of the early-'60s Toni Fisher pop ballad "The Big Hurt."
© Richie Unterberger /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 12 track(s)
- Total length: 00:40:05
- Main artists: Scott Walker
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: UMC (Universal Music Catalogue)
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 2013 Mercury Records Limited ℗ 1967 Mercury Records Limited
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