"I'd Sell Records by the Ton" – THE RELUCTANT SINGLES OF SCOTT WALKER
Scott Walker hated singles. Between 1967 and the 1990s, he only released a handful of them, in most cases reluctantly, or under record company pressure. They run from soapy ballads and Brel chansons to country covers and the avant garde. I thought it would be fun to go through Scott's UK single releases and take a look at how successful each one was and how easy they are to find today. Deadlier Than The Male / Archangel (Philips UK BF 1537, December 1966) Scott's disaffection with singles probably began with the Walker Brothers' eighth 45 - Deadlier Than The Male, backed with Archangel. These two Scott compositions, issued together in December 1966, were never intended by Scott or the group to be an official Walker Brothers release, merely a tie-in with the movie to which Deadlier Than The Male was the theme. "They promised me that 'Deadlier Than The Male' would not be promoted as a single," Scott told Disc at the time. "It was just put out to keep