Born Noel Scott Engel, 9 January 1943, Hamilton, Ohio, USA. After relocating to New York during childhood, this precocious talent initially pursued a career as an actor, and also briefly recorded under the name Scotty Engel. Moving to Hollywood, he worked on sessions with arranger Jack Nitzsche before joining the Routers as a bassist. He next teamed up with singer John Maus as the Dalton Brothers, which gradually evolved into the Walker Brothers with the addition of drummer Gary Leeds. The trio moved to England and found themselves fêted as teen-idols, with a string of hits that established them as one of the most successful UK-based groups of the mid-60s. The group broke up in May 1967 at a time when Scott was still regarded as a sex symbol and potential solo superstar. Yet there was something contradictory about the singer's image. Ridden with angst during the Walkers' teen-idol peak, he was known for his moody reclusiveness, tendency to wear dark glasses and stay in curtain-closed rooms during daylight hours. The classic pop existentialist, Walker was trapped in a system that regarded him as a contradiction. His manager Maurice King encouraged a straightforward showbusiness career involving regular television appearances and even cabaret. Walker, meanwhile, had become a devotee of Belgian composer Jacques Brel and included several of his songs on his debut solo album, Scott. There is no finer example of the contradiction that Walker faced than the incongruous image of the singer performing 'My Death' on BBC television's chirpy Billy Cotton Band Show.
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This is a rather rare one. It comes from the early 70s - a few years after the supreme glory of the Scott series of solo albums, where Mr Engel buried and walked upon the grave of the image of fabricated boy band puppet that might have arisen from his days in the Walker Brothers.
This is a series of eclectic covers and although it cannot stand anywhere close to Scott's greatest works (the Scott series from the late 60s and some later albums from the eighties onward - when he went into another stratosphere, artistically and musically), it's definitely worth checking out for Engel fans.
See interview w/Scott here.
via Taringa
This is but a drop in the bucket of Scot's work and certainly very pop.
Tracklisting
"Sunshine" - 4:27
"Just One Smile" - 4:23
"A Woman Left Lonely" - 3:22
"No Easy Way Down" - 4:37
"That's How I Got to Memphis" - 3:10
"Use Me" - 4:19
"Frisco Depot" - 3:46
"Someone Who Cared" - 2:58
"Where Dows Brown Begin" - 4:35
"Where Love Has Died" - 2:23
"I'll Be Home" - 3:24
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Scott Walker- Stretch
Born Noel Scott Engel, 9 January 1943, Hamilton, Ohio, USA. After relocating to New York during childhood, this precocious talent initially pursued a career as an actor, and also briefly recorded under the name Scotty Engel. Moving to Hollywood, he worked on sessions with arranger Jack Nitzsche before joining the Routers as a bassist. He next teamed up with singer John Maus as the Dalton Brothers, which gradually evolved into the Walker Brothers with the addition of drummer Gary Leeds. The trio moved to England and found themselves fêted as teen-idols, with a string of hits that established them as one of the most successful UK-based groups of the mid-60s. The group broke up in May 1967 at a time when Scott was still regarded as a sex symbol and potential solo superstar. Yet there was something contradictory about the singer's image. Ridden with angst during the Walkers' teen-idol peak, he was known for his moody reclusiveness, tendency to wear dark glasses and stay in curtain-closed rooms during daylight hours. The classic pop existentialist, Walker was trapped in a system that regarded him as a contradiction. His manager Maurice King encouraged a straightforward showbusiness career involving regular television appearances and even cabaret. Walker, meanwhile, had become a devotee of Belgian composer Jacques Brel and included several of his songs on his debut solo album, Scott. There is no finer example of the contradiction that Walker faced than the incongruous image of the singer performing 'My Death' on BBC television's chirpy Billy Cotton Band Show.
more..
This is a rather rare one. It comes from the early 70s - a few years after the supreme glory of the Scott series of solo albums, where Mr Engel buried and walked upon the grave of the image of fabricated boy band puppet that might have arisen from his days in the Walker Brothers.
This is a series of eclectic covers and although it cannot stand anywhere close to Scott's greatest works (the Scott series from the late 60s and some later albums from the eighties onward - when he went into another stratosphere, artistically and musically), it's definitely worth checking out for Engel fans.
See interview w/Scott here.
via Taringa
This is but a drop in the bucket of Scot's work and certainly very pop.
Tracklisting
"Sunshine" - 4:27
"Just One Smile" - 4:23
"A Woman Left Lonely" - 3:22
"No Easy Way Down" - 4:37
"That's How I Got to Memphis" - 3:10
"Use Me" - 4:19
"Frisco Depot" - 3:46
"Someone Who Cared" - 2:58
"Where Dows Brown Begin" - 4:35
"Where Love Has Died" - 2:23
"I'll Be Home" - 3:24
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