Joanna (Scott Walker song)

"Joanna"
Single by Scott Walker
B-side "Always Coming Back To You"
Released May 1968
Format 7"
Recorded 1968
Genre Pop
Length 3:49
Label Philips Records
Writer(s) Tony Hatch, Jackie Trent
Producer John Franz, Peter Knight
Scott Walker singles chronology
"Jackie"
(1967)		 "Joanna"
(1968)		 "Lights of Cincinnati"
(1969)

"Joanna" is a song written by the husband and wife song-writing team Tony Hatch and Jackie Trent.

Scott Walker recorded the song and released it as a single in 1968 shortly after the release of his second album Scott 2. The single hit the top ten in the UK[1] and is one of Walker's most popular recordings. While credited to Hatch and Trent journalist Joe Jackson writes in his article "The Fugitive Kind" that Walker wrote a significant proportion of the lyric. Jackson quotes Walker as follows: 'that whole verse about "lived in your eyes completely" is mine and I wrote the last line in the song, "you may remember me and change your mind".[2]

References

  1. ^ "Chart Stats - Scott Walker". chartstats.com. http://www.chartstats.com/artistinfo.php?id=1980. Retrieved 2009-02-12. 
  2. ^ Williams, Lewis (2006). Scott Walker - The Rhymes of Goodbye (1st ed.). London: Plexus. p. 77. ISBN 0-85965-395-1. 
Scott Walker
Solo albums

Scott (1967) · Scott 2 (1968) · Scott 3 (1969) · Scott: Scott Walker Sings Songs from his TV Series (1969) · Scott 4 (1969) · 'Til the Band Comes In (1970) · The Moviegoer (1972) · Any Day Now (1973) · Stretch (1973) · We Had It All (1974) · Climate of Hunter (1984) · Tilt (1995) · The Drift (2006) · And Who Shall Go to the Ball? And What Shall Go to the Ball? (2007)
The Walker Brothers albums

Take It Easy with The Walker Brothers (1965) · Portrait (1966) · Images (1967) · No Regrets (1975) · Lines (1976) · Nite Flights (1978)
Compilations
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