Scott Walker RIP

[ReformedCharacter]

Outstanding voice IMO.

No Regrets...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xcRE_XoPT0

RC

[PinkDalek]

The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore).

[AleisterCrowley]

George Cornell....Krays....bang

[ReformedCharacter]

George Cornell....Krays....bang

Ah, The Blind Beggar...

RC

[bungeejumper]

My younger sister was crazy about the Walker Brothers, which is the reason why I always hated them.

There was I, just getting into motorbikes and ripped denim and the rough end of the blues, and then there were these annoyingly perfect dudes who wouldn't ever have been seen in anything but a smooth black limo, and who crooned on and on like some fifties gospel singers with a bit of a Phil Spector echo. Dammit, even my parents "approved of" them. Hopeless.

There was never any doubting the quality of the guy's voice, but even today the connotations still grate. Anybody know what I'm on about?

RIP anyway, Mr Walker. You were indeed great - just not my style.

[bungeejumper]

George Cornell....Krays....bang

OK, he who laughs last has just got the double meaning. Only five decades too late, but I get your point:

In the UK this is regarded as a death song, supposedly because of an incident in the mid 1960s concerning Ronnie Kray. The story goes that the legendary London gangster, armed with a 9mm Mauser, strolled into the Blind Beggar pub in London's East End to shoot and kill rival gangster George Cornell. This song was playing on the jukebox at the time and a stray bullet hit the machine, forcing the record to repeat the line "The sun ain't gonna shine, anymore, anymore, anymore…" as Cornell lay dying just a few feet away.https://www.songfacts.com/facts/the-wal ... ne-anymore.

Chapeau, monsieur.

BJ

[Slarti]

Anybody know what I'm on about?

Not in the slightest.

Slarti

[CommissarJones]

"I Don't Want to Hear It Anymore," Scott Walker (1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaIV_KJ59ZM

This Randy Newman song was on the Walker Brothers' debut album. Amazing to think that Walker was only 22 when he recorded this.