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The Walker Brothers is an act on the Starverb influence map. Their sound grew out of Tom Rush, Brian Bennett, The Everly Brothers, Jerry Butler and Frankie Valli. Those roots explain a lot about how The Walker Brothers arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as The Tremeloes, The Association, Herman's Hermits, The Lovin' Spoonful and Manfred Mann, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Jessica Pratt, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix, Cat Stevens and Engelbert Humperdinck, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 41 connections around The Walker Brothers, reaching back through Tom Rush and forward to Jessica Pratt. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
Background
The Walker Brothers were an American pop group formed in Los Angeles in 1964 by John Walker and Scott Walker, with Gary Walker joining shortly after. They adopted the name "Walker Brothers" as a show business touch, though they were unrelated. After moving to Britain in 1965, they achieved their breakthrough Top 20 single there with "Love Her", and went on have several UK Top 10 albums and Top 40 singles, including the No. 1 hits "Make It Easy on Yourself" and "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine (Anymore)", both of which also made the US Top 20 and Canadian Top 2. Between them was the UK No. 3 hit "My Ship is Coming In". They provided a unique counterpoint to the British Invasion by achieving far more success in the UK than in their home country.
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The Walker Brothers connections
The Walker Brothers grew out of Tom Rush, Brian Bennett, The Everly Brothers and Jerry Butler, shares an orbit with The Tremeloes, The Association, Herman's Hermits and The Lovin' Spoonful, went on to shape Jessica Pratt, David Bowie, Jimi Hendrix and Cat Stevens. 41 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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