Scott Walker (6,655 views)

[IhateMana]

Noel Scott Engel
Associated Acts: The Walker Brothers
Vocal Range: E2 - D5

Significant High Notes

D5 ("The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore")
B♭4 ("Lonely Winds", "SSDS1416+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter)", "Tell the Truth")
G♯4 ("Brando", "Everything Under the Sun", "SSDS1416+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter)", "Sunshine", "Track Three", "Walking in the Rain", "We're All Alone")
G4 ("Black Rose", "The Cockfighter", "The Fury and the Fire", "Just One Smile", "Lonely Winds", "Will You Still Be Mine")
F♯4 ("Bull", "Clara", "Corps De Blah", "Cowboy", "Dealer", "Disciples of Death", "The Electrician", "Experience", "Fat Mama Kick", "Just One Smile", "Land of 1,000 Dances", "Lines", "Lullaby", "Manhattan (flȇrdelē´)", "Many Rivers to Cross", "My Love is Growing", "My Ship is Coming In", "Nite Flights", "Phrasing", "Psoriatic", "Rawhide", "Rhymes of Goodbye", "SSDS1416+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter)", "Stand By Me", "Stay With Me Baby", "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore", "Use Me", "We're All Alone", "When You Get Right Down to it", "Where's the Girl")
F4 ("Black Sheep Boy", "Bolivia '95", "Bouncer See Bouncer…", "Brando", "The Cockfighter", "Corps De Blah", "Cue", "The Day the "Conducator" Died (An Xmas Song)", "Dimple", "Do I Love You", "Epizootics!", "The Escape", "Everything That Touches You", "Everything Under the Sun", "Fat Mama Kick", "Fetish", "Funeral Tango", "Get Behind Me", "Here Comes the Night", "Herod 2014", "Hero of the War", "Hurting Each Other", "I Don't Want to Hear it Anymore", "If", "I Need You", "The Impossible Dream", "It Makes No Difference Now", "Jesse", "Jolson and Jones", "Love Her", "Manhattan (flȇrdelē´)", "Mathilde", "My Love is Growing", "Only the Young", "Orpheus", "Patriot (A single)", "People Get Ready", "Plastic Palace People", "Shutout", "Someone Who Cared", "The Song Is You", "The Summer Knows", "Summertime", "Tar", "Tell the Truth", "There Goes My Baby", "Through a Long and Sleepless Night", "Track Seven", "Turn Out the Moon", "We Came Through", "We Could Be Flying", "Will You Still Be Mine", "Young Man Cried")
E4 ("Ain't No Sunshine", "All My Love's Laughter", "Always Coming Back to You", "Angelica", "Another Tear Falls", "Any Day Now", "Baby Make it the Last Time", "(Baby) You Don't Have to Tell Me", "The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti", "Buzzers", "Clara", "Come Next Spring", "Cossacks Are", "Deadlier Than the Male", "Dealer", "Doin' the Jerk", "Epizootics!", "Everything's Gonna Be Alright", "Face on Breast", "Farmer In the City (Remembering Pasolini)", "Hand Me Ups", "Here Comes the Night", "Hero of the War", "I Can See it Now", "I Don't Want to Hear it Anymore", "I Have Dreamed", "If", "If You Go Away", "It's Over", "I'll Be Home", "Inside of You", "Jesse", "Joe", "Just One Smile", "Just Say Goodbye", "Land of 1,000 Dances", "Little Things (That Keep Us Together)", "Living Above Your Head", "Looking for Me", "Lover's Lullaby", "Make it Easy on Yourself", "Many Rivers to Cross", "Maria Bethania", "My Death", "My Ship is Coming In", "Next", "Nite Flights", "No Easy Way Down", "The Old Man's Back Again", "Orpheus", "Patriot (A single)", "Phrasing", "Pretty Girls Everywhere", "Rawhide", "Rosary", "Rosemary", "Saturday's Child", "The Seventh Dawn", "The Seventh Seal", "Sleepwalkers Woman", "Someone to Light Up My Life", "Stay With Me Baby", "Stormy", "Such a Small Love", "The Summer Knows", "Sundown", "Thanks For Chicago Mr. James", "This Way Mary", "Track Five", "Track Seven", "Track Six", "Track Three", "Turn Out the Moon", "Two Weeks Since You've Gone", "Wait Until Dark", "The War is Over (Sleepers - Epilogue)", "We're All Alone", "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life", "When the World Was Young", "Where Does Brown Begin", "Who (Will Take My Place)", "Winter Night", "A Woman Left Lonely", "The World's Strongest Man", "You're Gonna Hear From Me")
E♭4 ("After the Lights Go Out", "Amsterdam", "Best of Both Worlds", "But I Do", "Country Girl", "Cue", "Dimple", "Duchess", "A Face in the Crowd", "Hand Me Ups", "I Can See it Now", "I Need You", "I Will Wait For You", "The Impossible Dream", "It Makes No Difference Now", "Jolson and Jones", "Lullaby", "Mrs. Murphy", "Once Upon a Summertime", "Only the Young", "Pilgrim", "Psoriatic", "Rhymes of Goodbye", "Ride Me Down Easy", "'See You Don't Bump His Head'", "Someone Who Cared", "Sons Of", "Stand By Me", "Sunshine", "Tar", "Thanks For Chicago Mr. James", "This Way Mary", "Wait Until Dark", "We Had it All", "When Joanna Loved Me", "Where's the Girl", "You're All Around Me")
D4 ("After the Lights Go Out", "All His Children", "Always Coming Back to You", "The Amorous Humphrey Plugg", "Angelica", "Angels of Ashes", "Archangel", "(Baby) You Don't Have to Tell Me", "The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti", "Big Louise", "Black Rose", "Boulder to Birmingham", "Bouncer See Bouncer…", "Brand New Tennessee Waltz", "The Bridge", "Bull", "Burn Our Bridges", "But I Do", "Buzzers", "Clara", "Come Next Spring", "Come Saturday Morning", "Corps De Blah", "Cowboy", "Deadlier Than the Male", "Delta Dawn", "Doin' the Jerk", "Dreaming as One", "Easy Come Easy Go", "Epizootics!", "Everything That Touches You", "Farmer In the City (Remembering Pasolini)", "First Love Never Dies", "Funeral Tango", "Genevieve", "The Gentle Rain", "Girl I Lost In the Rain", "The Girls and the Dogs", "The Girls From the Streets", "The Hills of Yesterday", "I Have Dreamed", "I Will Wait For You", "If She Walked Into My Life", "If You Go Away", "The Impossible Dream", "In My Room", "Inside of You", "Jackie", "Jean the Machine", "Joe", "Just One Smile", "Just Say Goodbye", "Land of 1,000 Dances", "Lonely Winds", "The Look of Love", "Loss of Love", "Lost In the Stars", "Love Her", "A Lover Loves", "Low Down Freedom", "Montague Terrace (in Blue)", "My Death", "My Ship is Coming In", "Next", "Nite Flights", "No Regrets", "On Your Own Again", "Orpheus", "Patriot (A single)", "Plastic Palace People", "Rosemary", "Reuben James", "Saturday's Child", "The Seventh Seal", "Someone Who Cared", "The Summer Knows", "Summertime", "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore", "There Goes My Baby", "Til the Band Comes in", "Tilt", "Time Operator", "Track Seven", "Track Six", "Turn Out the Moon", "Two Ragged Soldiers", "Two Weeks Since You've Gone", "The War Is Over (Sleepers - Epilogue)", "We Came Through", "We Could Be Flying", "Whatever Happened to Saturday Night", "When the World Was Young", "Who (Will Take My Place)", "Will You Still Be Mine", "Windows of the World", "The World's Strongest Man", "You're Young and You'll Forget")
C♯4 ("Ain't No Sunshine", "All His Children", "Another Tear Falls", "Big Louise", "Black Sheep Boy", "Bolivia '95", "Boy Child", "The Cockfighter", "Copenhagen", "Cowbells Shakin'", "Cue", "Delta Dawn", "Do I Love You", "I Can See it Now", "I'll Be Home", "It's Over", "It's Raining Today", "Joe Hill", "Love Minus Zero/No Limit", "Make it Easy on Yourself", "Maria Bethania", "The Me I Never Knew", "No Sad Songs For Me", "Old Folks", "The Old Man's Back Again", "Once Upon a Summertime", "Psoriatic", "Reuben James", "Saddest Night In the World", "The Seventh Dawn", "Sleepwalkers Woman", "Someone to Light Up My Life", "Speak Softly Love", "Sundown", "That Night", "Wait Until Dark", "Walking in the Rain", "Where Does Brown Begin", "Where Love Has Died", "A Woman Left Lonely", "You're Gonna Hear From Me")
C4 ("30 Century Man", "All My Love's Laughter", "The Amorous Humphrey Plugg", "Amsterdam", "Angels of Ashes", "The Big Hurt", "Brand New Tennessee Waltz", "The Bridge", "Country Girl", "Dreaming as One", "Easy Come Easy Go", "The Escape", "Everything Under the Sun", "A Face in the Crowd", "Genevieve", "The Gentle Rain", "Get Behind Me", "Here Comes the Night", "The House Song", "Hurting Each Other", "If", "If Ships Were Made to Sail", "Joe Hill", "Little Things (That Keep Us Together)", "Lost In the Stars", "No Easy Way Down", "Old Folks", "Only the Young", "Passing Strangers" From "Scott" 16/08/1968, "People Get Ready", "The Seventh Seal", "The Song Is You", "Sons Of", "Stand By Me", "Such a Small Love", "Thanks For Chicago Mr. James", "That's How I Got to Memphis", "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life", "Whatever Happened to Saturday Night", "When Joanna Loved Me", "Winter Night", "You're All Around Me")


Significant Low Notes

D3 ("After the Lights Go Out", "All My Love's Laughter", "Angelica", "Angels of Ashes", "(Baby) You Don't Have to Tell Me", "The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti", "The Big Hurt", "Boulder to Birmingham", "Boy Child", "Come Next Spring", "Come Saturday Morning", "Cue", "Everything That Touches You", "A Face in the Crowd", "Farmer In the City (Remembering Pasolini)", "Funeral Tango", "Girl I Lost In the Rain", "The Girls and the Dogs", "I Will Wait For You", "If Ships Were Made to Sail", "The Impossible Dream", "In My Room", "Inside of You", "Jackie", "Jean the Machine", "Just Say Goodbye", "Lines", "Love Her", "Lover's Lullaby", "Mrs. Murphy", "My Death", "My Ship is Coming In", "People Get Ready", "Reuben James", "The Seventh Seal", "Someone to Light Up My Life", "The Song Is You", "Stay With Me Baby", "Such a Small Love", "Summertime", "Stor be my", "Thanks For Chicago Mr. James", "Tilt", "Time Operator", "Track Seven", "The War is Over (Sleepers - Epilogue)", "When the World Was Young", "Who (Will Take My Place)", "Will You Still Be Mine", "You're All Around Me", "You're Young and You'll Forget")
C♯3 ("Ain't No Sunshine", "Another Tear Falls", "Any Day Now", "Big Louise", "Black Sheep Boy", "Bolivia '95", "Bouncer See Bouncer…", "Butterfly", "Cowbells Shakin'", "Cue", "Delta Dawn", "Do I Love You", "Duchess", "Everything Under the Sun", "Hand Me Ups", "I Can See it Now", "I Have Dreamed", "Jolson and Jones", "A Lover Loves", "Maria Bethania", "The Old Man's Back Again", "Patriot (A single)", "Phrasing", "Rhymes of Goodbye", "Sundown", "Sunshine", "That Night", "Turn Out the Moon", "Wait Until Dark", "We Came Through")
C3 ("The Amorous Humphrey Plugg", "Amsterdam", "Black Rose", "Boy Child", "The Bridge", "Country Girl", "The Electrician", "Epizootics!", "First Love Never Dies", "Funeral Tango", "Genevieve", "The Hills of Yesterday", "The House Song", "Hurting Each Other", "I Don't Want to Hear it Anymore", "I Will Wait For You", "If", "If She Walked Into My Life", "The Impossible Dream", "In My Room", "It Makes No Difference Now", "Joe", "Looking for Me", "Lost In the Stars", "The Me I Never Knew", "Montague Terrace (in Blue)", "No Easy Way Down", "Old Folks", "Once Upon a Summertime", "Orpheus", "Patriot (A single)", "Plastic Palace People", "Saturday's Child", "The Song Is You", "SSDS1416+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter)", "Through a Long and Sleepless Night", "We Could Be Flying", "We Had it All", "Whatever Happened to Saturday Night", "Young Man Cried")
B2 ("All His Children", "Any Day Now", "The Ballad of Sacco and Vanzetti", "Butterfly", "Buzzers", "Copenhagen, "Cowboy", "Dreaming as One", "Duchess", "Fetish", "Frisco Depot", "The Gentle Rain", "It's Over", "It's Raining Today", "Rosemary", "Sons Of", "The Lady Came From Baltimore", "Loss of Love", "Make it Easy on Yourself", "Mathilde", "My Ship is Coming In", "On Your Own Again", "Saddest Night In the World", "The Seventh Dawn", "Stormy", "The Summer Knows", "This Way Mary", "Tilt", "Use Me", "Wait Until Dark", "Walking in the Rain", "We Could Be Flying", "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life", "When You Get Right Down to it", "Where Does Brown Begin", "Where Love Has Died", "Where's the Girl", "Windows of the World", "A Woman Left Lonely")
B♭2 ("Best of Both Worlds", "Brand New Tennessee Waltz", "Glory Road", "If She Walked Into My Life", "Joe", "Lullaby", "Only the Young", "Passing Strangers" From "Scott" 16/08/1968, "Plastic Palace People", "Rhymes of Goodbye", "Sleepwalkers Woman", "Speak Softly Love", "That Night", "Til the Band Comes in", "Time Operator", "When Joanna Loved Me")
A2 ("30 Century Man", "Always Coming Back to You", "The Amorous Humphrey Plugg", "Blanket Roll Blues", "The Bridge", "Dealer", "The Electrician", "Epizootics!", "A Face in the Crowd", "First Love Never Dies", "Genevieve", "The Girls From the Streets", "Got to Have You", "If You Go Away", "Joe Hill", "Just One Smile", "The Look of Love", "Low Down Freedom", "Many Rivers to Cross", "No Regrets", "Old Five and Dimers Like Me", "On Your Own Again", "Ride Me Down Easy", "Sons Of", "Stay With Me Baby", "Track Six", "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life", "When the World Was Young", "Where Does Brown Begin", "Winter Night", "You're Gonna Hear From Me", "You're Young and You'll Forget")
G♯2 ("A Face in the Crowd", "All His Children", "Bolivia '95", "The Cockfighter", "Deadlier Than the Male", "Glory Road", "If You Go Away", "It's Raining Today", "Lost In the Stars", "Passing Strangers" From "Scott" 16/08/1968, "Ride Me Down Easy", "Tar")
G2 ("30 Century Man", "Black Rose", "Easy Come Easy Go", "Frisco Depot", "The House Song", "Joe Hill", "Only the Young", "SSDS1416+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter)", "Such a Small Love", "Track Six", "Two Ragged Soldiers", "Whatever Happened to Saturday Night")
F♯2 ("Blanket Roll Blues", "Bolivia '95", "It's Over", "No Regrets", "That's How I Got to Memphis", "Where Love Has Died", "Windows of the World")
F2 ("All His Children", "Brand New Tennessee Waltz", "It Makes No Difference Now")
E2 ("Delta Dawn", "Ride Me Down Easy")

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Blue marks falsetto or whistle notes.
Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
Italics mark non-melodic notes.
Boldface marks notes that are considered to be particularly notable examples of this person's vocal capabilities.

Scott Walker had a pretty unusual career trajectory. Having made his name in the 60s as a pop crooner, and then as a career vocalist with no creative control over the songs he sang, he eventually wound up creating some of the most captivating experimental music at an age where most other singers of his make had either retired or were perpetually touring their hits. Scott's music in his later years can be described as unsettling, dark, even at times humorous with its idiosyncrasies.

Scott was a fairly grounded 60s baritone singer, by no means a virtuosic vocalist, but one who was able to stay impeccably well in control of their voice and on pitch. Throughout his career this would more or less remain the case, his voice remaining distinct and stable, though in his later career he demonstrated a lighter approach to his upper register and less of a focus on his lows.

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{Questionable Notes}
F♯4 ("Doin' the Jerk" [5])

A2 ("I'll Be Home" [1])
G♯2 ("Track Five" [1])
G2 ("Looking for Me" [1], "Low Down Freedom" [1], "Next" [5], "Time Operator" [5])
F♯2 ("The Girls and the Dogs" [1]/[3], "Just One Smile" [1])
F2 ("A Face in the Crowd" [1], "Speak Softly Love" [1], "Tar" [1], "When the World Was Young" [1])
E2 ("Old Five and Dimers Like Me" [1])
E♭2 ("Clara" [3], "Through a Long and Sleepless Night" [1])
D2 ("No Regrets" [1], "Track Six" [5])
B1 ("Delta Dawn" [5])
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[1] marks yelps and short trills in high range or anacrusis and short dips in low range.
[2] marks notes of questionable identity that cannot be confirmed to be the singer in question.
[3] marks non-melodic notes that don't have a significant enough pitch to warrant inclusion.
[4] marks notes that possess uncertain pitch or have been pitch-shifted.
[5] marks notes that do not fit the previous criteria but are not of a substantial enough quality to warrant counting towards the singer's range.

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{Album Ranges}
The Walker Brothers

(1965) Take it Easy With the Walker Brothers/Introducing the Walker Brothers - (A2 - B♭4) IhateMana
(1966) Portrait/The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore - (B2 - F♯4 - D5) IhateMana
(1967) Images - (F2 - G♯4) IhateMana
(1975) No Regrets - (F♯2 - F4) IhateMana
(1976) Lines - (F2 - G♯4) IhateMana
(1978) Nite Flights - (A2 - F♯4 - G4) IhateMana

Solo

(1967) Scott - (G2 - F4) SailorBlue
(1968) Scott 2 - (F♯2 - F4) SailorBlue
(1969) Scott 3 - (G2 - F4) IhateMana
(1969) Scott: Scott Walker Sings Songs from his T.V. Series - (G2 - G4) IhateMana
(1969) Scott 4 - (A2 - F♯4) RINGO
(1970) 'Til the Band Comes In - (F♯2 - E4) SailorBlue
(1972) The Moviegoer - (F2 - F4) SailorBlue
(1973) Any Day Now - (B2 - F♯4) SailorBlue
(1973) Stretch - (F♯2 - G4 - G♯4) SailorBlue
(1974) We Had it All - (E2 - G4) SailorBlue
(1984) Climate of Hunter - (F♯2 - G♯4) SailorBlue
(1995) Tilt - (F♯2 - G4) IhateMana
(2006) The Drift - (B2 - F♯4) IhateMana
(2012) Bish Bosch - (G2 - B♭4) IhateMana

With Sunn O)))

(2014) Soused - (B♭2 - G♯4) SailorBlue

[Baronessa]

G♯2s, B♭2s and C4s.

The "30 Century Man" A2s would be a cool bold, too.

Oh yeah, I'm also pretty sure I didn't notewatch Scott 4, as nice as that album is.

[IhateMana]

lol wtf then i have no idea who did

[Baronessa]

RINGO was presumably credited as "admin" back in TRP 3. :P

[Holsety]

This really isn't important at all but kind of funny... C♯2 for the spoiler box.

EDIT: Also, there are "backing" G4s which modulate to G♯4s at the end of "Thanks for Chicago Mr. James"

[Homelander]

Scott Walker definitely had the most interesting musical transformation out of any artist or band I know of.

[IhateMana]

yeah he stands out quite particularly for that cause I can't really think of many other examples that are a similar enough analogue. Tom Waits and David Sylvian kinda have similar musical progressions, although they were never distinctly prominent "pop" stars in the way Walker was at the start of his career, so it's not quite the same.