Scott: Scott Walker Sings Songs from his T.V. Series
album by Scott Walker
Scott: Scott Walker Sings Songs from his T.V. Series is the fourth solo album by American 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 20. No singles were released from the album, though in some countries outside the UK, Walker's top 20 non-album single "Lights of Cincinnati", which was issued the same month, was included. 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 itself.
Availability
The continued unavailability of Scott Walker Sings Songs from his T.V. Series is due to Walker's dissatisfaction with the album and his four albums from 1972's The Moviegoer to 1974's We Had It All, all of which were made up entirely of cover versions and which he describes in the documentary Scott Walker: 30 Century Man as his "wilderness years". Walker later blocked ...T.V. Series, The Moviegoer and Any Day Now (1973) from being released on CD, while Stretch (1973) and We Had It All were released on CD in 1997 by an independent label without Walker's own approval.
In spite of the album's deletion, most of the tracks were included on two Scott Walker compilation CDs issued in the 2000s, the budget-priced The Collection in 2004 and Classics & Collectibles in 2005.
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