Hello you are looking to buy the RARE SCOTT WALKER CD BOY CHILD: 67-70 released in 2000 on FONTANA RECORDS UPC: 731454270526. CD IS AN IMPORT FROM THE UK & CONTAINS BONUS TRACK. CD is BRAND NEW & in Mint Condition. CD was never sealed, but comes stored in a polybag. International buyers please inquire about shipping rates. Thank you for looking and happy buying!
Biography Originally championed by Eddie Fisher in the late 1950s, Scott appeared several times under his real name on Fisher's TV series as a teen idol type in the vein of Fabian or Frankie Avalon. His vocal style and overall approach developed, however, as throughout The Walker Brothers era and his '60s and '70s solo albums; he perfected a sound that was heavily indebted to the work of contemporary popular and jazz vocalists. These include artists such as Tony Bennett, Jack Jones and Mark Murphy as well as soul balladeers like Jerry Butler. Walker was among the first to adopt the electric bass guitar, mastering it to a proficiency to win regular session work in Los Angeles studios while still in his teens. The Walker Brothers era After playing in many bands he eventually joined with John Maus and Gary Leeds to form The Walker Brothers in Los Angeles in 1964. Leeds had recently toured the UK with P.J. Proby and was the catalyst to their relocation to London. The Walker Brothers arrived in London in early 1965 and attained worldwide popularity with pop ballads. Their first single "Pretty Girls Everywhere ", with John Maus as lead singer, crept into the charts. It was their next single "Love Her ", with Scott's deeper baritone in the lead, that hit the British charts and executives at Philips, their UK record label, noticed the rangy émigré Americans. The Walker Brothers' next release, "Make It Easy on Yourself ", a Bacharach/David ballad, swept to No. 1 in the UK charts (#16 in the US) on release in August 1965. After hitting again with "My Ship Is Coming In " (#3 UK), their second No. 1 (#13 US), "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore ", shot to the top in early 1966 and their popularity and fan base is said to have exceeded The Beatles in the UK and Europe. As lead singer, Scott attained pop star status. This collection of "Scott's best self-composed songs " features 20 Walker originals from his 1967-1970 heyday. While he covered some interesting material on his albums during this period, paying tribute to Jacques Brel with special devotion and frequency, his original compositions are his most enduring achievements. Besides such highlights as "Big Louise, " "We Came Through, " "The Seventh Seal, " "Plastic Palace People, " and "The Old Man's Back Again, " it includes half a dozen songs that were not included on the four other solo albums that Fontana UK has reissued on CD. Some of those cuts are very strong, especially "The Rope and the Colt, " a dramatic Western ballad with an arrangement that would do Ennio Morricone proud; the positively eloquent despair of the ennui-ridden "Time Operator "; and "The Plague, " a representative sampling of Walker's taste for the disquieting and bizarre. This is a recommended starting point for those interested in checking out this singularly strange '60s phenomenon, who was a relatively unacknowledged and undetected, but nonetheless substantial, influence on David Bowie and other fashionably decadent British singers. - All Music Guide |
