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"The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)" is a song written by Bob Crewe and Bob Gaudio. It was originally released as a single credited to Frankie Valli as a solo artist in 1965 on the Smash label, but was more successful when recorded by the Walker Brothers in 1966. Cher, Keane, Doug Parkinson and Bruce Springsteen have also recorded the song.
The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore is the second North-American album release by the Walker Brothers. Released in 1966, the album was the group's fourth overall. Portrait was not released in the United States or Canada. In its place Smash Records compiled The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore as the group's second American album. [1]
Scott Walker and The Walker Brothers – A Very Special Collection (1993, Pickwick) The Collection (1996, Spectrum/Universal) – BPI: Silver; If You Could Hear Me Now (2001, Columbia) Superhits (2005, Epic) The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore – The Best of Scott Walker and The Walker Brothers (2006, Universal Music TV) – UK #24
The Walker Brothers Trio was formed in Los Angeles in 1964 by John Walker (lead vocals, guitar), Scott Engel (bass, harmony vocals), and Al "Tiny" Schneider ().Before then, John Walker—who had already been using that name professionally for several years—had performed and recorded several unsuccessful singles with his sister as a duo, John and Judy, and Engel had been bass player with ...
The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore, 1966: 3:00: 4. "My Ship Is Coming In" Joey Brooks: Introducing the Walker Brothers, 1965: 2:54: 5. "Joanna" (Scott Walker) Tony Hatch, Jackie Trent: Non-album single, 1968: 3:49: 6. "Lights of Cincinnati" (Scott Walker) Tony Macaulay, Geoff Stephens: Non-album single, 1969 (also on the US version of Scott 3 ...
Their second British number one, "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" in 1966, was their biggest hit in the US, where it made # 13 on the Billboard Hot 100. During this period, The Walker Brothers played some performances with the Yardbirds ; John eventually sold guitarist Jeff Beck the 1954 Fender Esquire used on many of the Yardbirds' most ...
After the Walker Brothers split in 1967, he began a solo career with the album Scott later that year, moving toward an increasingly challenging style on late-1960s baroque pop albums such as Scott 3 and Scott 4 (both 1969). [5] [6] After sales of his solo work started to decrease, he reunited with the Walker Brothers in the mid-1970s.
In the mid-1970s Walker reformed The Walker Brothers with mixed results. Their final album together; Nite Flights (1978) was a sonic breakthrough for Walker. His subsequent solo albums developed and expanded this new direction. For a detailed listing of Scott Walker's albums and singles with The Walker Brothers, see: The Walker Brothers ...