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Posted on June 14, 2019June 14, 2019

The best, definitive version of “You’re Gonna Hear From Me” – from Scott Walker (beating off Sinatra, Streisand and even Shirley Bassey)

“You’re Gonna Hear From Me” is a song by the late André Previn  written with his then wife Dory,  from the movie Inside Daisy Clover .  Natalie Wood’s original vocals were…

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Posted on May 23, 2019

#AprilCountry – the playlist

I only realised that I misded out on April 18th when compiling this, apologies to anyone WHOSE ENTIRE LIFE IS IN RUINS because of this.

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Posted on April 13, 2019April 11, 2019

#AprilCountry, April 13th The Walker Brothers “Boulder to Birmingham”

More Scott Walker in slightly unexpected country mode – though in The Walker Brothers reunion mode, rather than solo. This is an Emmylou Harris song mourning the death of Gram…

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Posted on April 12, 2019April 11, 2019

#AprilCountry , April 12th, “Black Sheep Boy”, Scott Walker

Today and tomorrow I am going to feature a somewhat unexpected country artist – the sadly recently deceased Scott Walker In the first two of Scott’s “big four” solo albums,…

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Posted on March 26, 2019

Scott Walker RIP – Angels of Ashes

Only two days ago I cued this up for publication. It turns out Scott Walker had already died. A while back I posted Scott’s “Little Things (That Keep Us Together)”…

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Posted on August 12, 2018August 12, 2018

Scott Walker, “Little Things (That Keep Us Together)”

Every so often a song floats into your consciousness from somewhere or other. I am not sure why, but yesterday Scott Walker’s driving, rhythmic “Little Things (That Keep Us Together)”…

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