SCOTT WALKER LP Scott UK67 1stP PHILIPS BL7816 EX *AMSTERDAM*SUCH A SMALL LOVE*

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	$		20

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ARTIST: SCOTT WALKER

TITLE: SCOTT

LABEL + YEAR:  PHILIPS BL7816; UK 1st PRESS 1967

CONDITION VINYL: EX WITH TWO FEINT HAIR-LINES ON SIDE 2. PLEASE NOTE: ALL PLAYS EX

CONDITION SLEEVE: EX

DESCRIPTION: All Music Review by Richie Unterberger 

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."  

Side 1:

MATHILDE

MONTAGUE TERRACE (IN BLUE)

ANGELICA

THE LADY CAME FROM BALTIMORE

WHEN JOANNA LOVED ME

MY DEATH

Side 2:

THE BIG HURT

SUCH A SMALL LOVE

YOU’RE GONNA HEAR FROM ME

THROUGH A LONG AND SLEEPLESS NIGHT

ALWAYS COMING BACK TO YOU

AMSTERDAM

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