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Question: Looking for this song

shotsy — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 15:41:02 -0800

Over the weekend I saw The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. I was particularly taken by the song "I will wait for you", and as I searched for interesting versions of the song I found a reference to one by Scott Walker. (More Inside)

Does anybody know if this was ever issued on CD? The only reference I can find to it is on a 1970 Phillips release called The Best of Scott Walker. I can't find it issued on any of the four preceding LPs or Singles and it doesn't seem possible to have come from his pre-Scott Walker days as the song wasn't written until 1964... Any help tracking this down would be greatly appreciated.

By: JanetLand

JanetLand — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 16:23:33 -0800

Huh, I heard this song a zillion times when I was growing up in the 70s -- and I remember the Andy Williams recording very well, but it doesn't seem to be available. I think Jim Nabors recorded it too, but I can't seem to find that either. This is rather weird.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 16:41:28 -0800

There's a bunch of Scott Walker on p2p. And it's on a Walker Brothers album called Images.

they used that song (the Connie Francis version) on Futurama in the episode about his dog--very sad.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 16:47:17 -0800

you can buy Images on CD in Hungary, apparently.

and maybe it's on one of the Walker Brothers albums on Amazon?

By: black8

black8 — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 20:12:11 -0800

Try www.allmusic.com and www.gemm.com
I have a lot of SW's albums but I don't have that song...

By: shotsy

shotsy — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 20:56:54 -0800

Amberglow, thanks! As I was listening to it, I knew I had heard the song before and it was in that Futurama episode (which I recently got on DVD). That was seriously the saddest thing ever.

Thanks to teh rest of you as well, I thought I had checked the Walker Bros. catalog, but I must have read over it.

By: amberglow

amberglow — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 21:07:18 -0800

yup--i was tearing up during that part of the ep--very effective use of a song. Good luck finding the Walker version. (maybe try other foreign cd sites too)

By: gluechunk

gluechunk — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 21:13:16 -0800

As an aside, if you liked Umbrellas of Cherbourg (one of the best movies ever) I recommend viewing Demy's Lola (Roland makes a reference to Lola in UoC) and The Young Girls of Rochefort (which isn't a sequel, but which occupies a similar universe).

By: muckster

muckster — Mon, 26 Apr 2004 22:13:30 -0800

No movie can make me cry as consistently as Umbrellas of Cherbourg. It absolutely works every time.

I have no answers for you, but I'm getting on Kazaa now myself.