Jackie*
Best of Both Worlds*
Black Sheep Boy**
The Amorous Humphrey Plugg**
Next
The Girls from the Streets***
Plastic Palace People
Wait Until Dark
The Girls and the Dogs**
Windows of the World***
The Bridge
Come Next Spring*
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Jackie* Best of Both Worlds* Black Sheep Boy** The Amorous Humphrey Plugg** Next The Girls from the Streets*** Plastic Palace People Wait Until Dark The Girls and the Dogs** Windows of the World*** The Bridge Come Next Spring*
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Arranged & conducted by Wally Stott*
Reg Guest** Peter Knight***
Production: John Franz
Engineer: Peter J. Olliff
Liner Notes
This album had just been completed, and Scott and I were having dinner and I asked him how he felt now that it was finished. "I'm afraid it's work of a lazy, self indulgent man. Now the nonsense must stop, and the serious business must begin".
I smiled. I might have known, really. For Scott is never satisfied with what he's done, he's always aiming at something higher almost as the last note of the present dies away. He has so many things to say, so many patterns of beauty to sculpture.
While every critic in the country raves about his powerful, controlled, communicative voice; his total lack of respect for phoney attitudes and standards; his obvious and original talent; his sincerity and creative purpose - Scott remains worried that he has achieved nothing he intended.
While the public is perfectly aware that an album with his name on the cover will contain the essential lyrics of Jacques Brel and other poets he admires, as well as his own descriptive, penetrating language - he still searches for words and truths.
While we all know that the vital, alive arrangements by Wally Stott, Peter Knight and Reg Guest will hit us from all sides and electrify our imaginations; that his deep, flexible voice will convey the emotions of the song (so often singers try to twist the music to suit their style) - Scott talks about messing about and getting down to business. They call it dedication.
I have no doubt that many years from now, over a space age dinner of vitamins (I will be bald by then - he'll have a shock of grey hair, and wrinkles) - he will say: "Well, the last fifty years have been great fun, but now we really must get down to doing something worthwhile". And he'll mean it.
His friend Johnathan King
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