SCOTT WALKER – SINGS SONGS FROM HIS TV SERIES LP – Nr MINT/EXC+ UK 1969

Scott Walker – Sings Songs From His TV Series
(Philips Records  1969  SBL7900)
Matrix No’s: 1Y1/2Y2 – UK Pressing

Gatefold Sleeve in Nr MINT condition

Vinyl in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition
(perfect apart from some marks on side 2 at the end of The Look Of Love and into Country Girl that give an audible click as it passes over)

Noel Scott Engel (January 9, 1943 – March 22, 2019), better known by his stage name Scott Walker, was a British-American singer-songwriter, composer and record producer who resided in England. Walker was known for his emotive baritonevoice and his unorthodox stylistic path which took him from being a teen pop icon in the 1960s to an avant-garde musician in the 21st century. Walker’s success was largely in the United Kingdom, where his first four solo albums reached the top ten. He lived in the UK from 1965 onward and became a UK citizen in 1970.

Rising to fame in the mid-1960s as frontman of the pop music trio the Walker Brothers, he began a solo career with 1967’s Scott, moving toward an increasingly challenging style on late-1960s baroque pop albums such as Scott 3 and Scott 4 (both 1969). After sales of his solo work started to decrease, he reunited with the Walker Brothers in the mid-1970s. From the mid-1980s onward, Walker revived his solo career while moving in an increasingly avant-garde direction; of this period in his career, The Guardian said “imagine Andy Williams reinventing himself as Stockhausen”. Walker’s 1960s recordings were highly regarded by the 1980s UK underground music scene, and gained a cult following.

Walker continued to record until 2018. He was described by the BBC upon his death as “one of the most enigmatic and influential figures in rock history”.

Scott: Scott Walker Sings Songs from his T.V. Series is an album by the American solo artist Scott Walker. It was released in June 1969 and reached number seven on the UK Albums Chart, his last album to make the top 10. No singles were released from the album, though some editions include Walker’s top-twenty single; “Lights of Cincinnati”. The album does not include original compositions by Walker and consists of performances of ballads and big band standards. The album has since been deleted and has not been reissued.

The album is an accompaniment to his BBC TV series Scott. It features studio re-recordings of a selection of music performed on the show and does not feature any original live recordings from the TV show.

Track listing

Personnel

• Scott Walker – Vocals
• John Franz – Producer
• Peter Knight –  Music Director of accompaniment
• Peter Olliff – engineer
• Peter Rand – Photography
• Linda Glover – Design