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Scott was the début solo album by Scott Walker, originally released in the United Kingdom on Philips Records in 1967.
[edit] Overview
Scott was released only six months after Walker's third album with The Walker Brothers, Images. Its mixture of Walker's original compositions and selection of cover versions established Walker as a more serious and sombre artist, gone were the Beat group and Blue-eyed soul material of his former group. The choice of material generally fell into four main categories, his own work ("Montague Terrace (In Blue)", "Such a Small Love", "Always Coming Back to You"), contemporary covers ("The Lady Came from Baltimore", "Angelica"), movie songs ("You're Gonna Hear From Me", "Through a Long and Sleepless Night") and significantly, English-translated versions of the songs of the Belgian musician and songwriter Jacques Brel ("Mathilde", "My Death", "Amsterdam"). Brel was a major influence on Walker's own compositions, and Walker included Brel material on his first three solo albums. Walker described Brel without qualification as 'the most significant singer-songwriter in the world'.[3] The real coup for Walker was his luck in acquiring and recording the new Mort Shuman-translated versions of Brel's material before anyone else.
Since the album's release three complete out-takes likely recorded during the Scott album sessions have circulated in bootlegged form. These are "Free Again" (Basile/Canfora/Colby/Jourdan), "I Get Along Without You Very Well" (Hoagy Carmichael) and "I Think I'm Getting Over You (Roger Cook/Roger Greenaway), the latter of which was recorded for potential single release.[4]
[edit] Release and reception
The album was released by Philips Records in September 1967 in the UK. It reached #3 on the UK Albums Chart, and stayed on the chart for seventeen weeks.[5] It was released the following year in the US on Smash Records under the title Aloner.
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[edit] Personnel
- Scott Walker - vocals
- Wally Stott - arrangements, conductor
- Reg Guest - arrangements, conductor
- Peter Knight - arrangements, conductor
- Peter Olliff - engineer
[edit] Release history
[edit] References
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