Scott would have made a very good crooner of standards or Broadway show singer. He had a beautifully smooth baritone voice with a wonderful natural vibrato. Someone at the BBC obviously thought along those lines as he was given his own TV show, the imaginatively titled “Scott”. There were two 1968 specials and the series ran in the spring of 1969 with this album being released later that year. On the show he introduced guests including O.C. Smith, Salena Jones, Jackie Trent, Tony Hatch, John Williams, Gene Pitney and others.

The album consists of performances of ballads and big band standards that he performed on the show. They are however studio re-recordings of some of the music performed on the show, there are no original live recordings from the show on the record. The album has never been re-issued, mainly because Scott himself didn’t like it. He  described this period and his early 1970’s recordings (albums “The Moviegoer” and “Any Day Now”) as his “wilderness years”.

The album is a pretty cynical attempt by the BBC (with the collusion, I would expect, of his management) to present Scott to an older audience as a supper club crooner, a younger, hipper Tony Bennett or Christie, but Scott was a much more adventurous artist than that as one listen to any of his solo albums compared to this will reveal. This isn’t prime Scott Walker but as I love his voice I’m happy to have this.

The Look Of Love - https://youtu.be/gp6h19pUJm0?si=gkp3D5v4a3IqWoc1