Humble Beginnings: The Scott Engel Sessions

Performer: Scott Walker
Distributor: Universal Distribution

Notes: Personnel: Scott Walker; Scott Engel. Liner Note Author: Bill Dahl. Before he racked up pop hits with the Walker Brothers and garnered a cult following with his adventurous solo work, Scott Walker had a brief run as a teen singer under his given name, Scott Engel. HUMBLE BEGINNINGS documents this little-known early era of Walker's career, offering up sugarcoated late-1950s/early-'60s singles such as "All I Do Is Dream of You" and "Sing Boy Sing," which hint at the Ohio-born performer's flair for the dramatic and his soon-to-deepen voice, but give no inkling of the avant-garde muse he would eventually follow (particularly on his 2006 studio album, THE DRIFT, released the same month as this compilation). While this set of juvenilia is geared towards Walker diehards, these charmingly lightweight tunes may also appeal to aficionados of breezy pre-Beatles-era pop.

Noel Scott Engel, better known as Scott Walker, was born in the US, but found fame in the UK as a member of the Walker Brothers, who became teen pop idols in England in the 1960s. After the group's demise, Walker's darker, artier side eventually came to the fore, and he began a quirky solo career that encompassed Jacques Brel covers, moody, saloon-singer crooning, and avant-garde tendencies. He became the quintessential cult figure, inscrutable and highly influential, though after the '70s his works were few and far between.

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