Anthology of Tom Waits
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Anthology of Tom Waits is the first "best of" compilation of Tom Waits
recordings, with tracks taken from his albums for Asylum Records
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Tom Waits
Thomas Alan "Tom" Waits is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. Waits has a distinctive voice, described by critic Daniel Durchholz as sounding "like it was soaked in a vat of bourbon, left hanging in the smokehouse for a few months, and then taken outside and run over with a car."...
recordings, with tracks taken from his albums for Asylum Records
Asylum Records
Asylum Records is an American record label founded in 1971 by David Geffen, and partner Elliot Roberts, who had previously worked as agents at the William Morris Agency. Founded specifically to provide a record contract for Jackson Browne, the label signed Tom Waits, Linda Ronstadt, Joni Mitchell...
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Track listing
Songs written by Tom Waits, except where noted.- "Ol' '55Ol' '55"Ol' '55" is a song written and recorded by Tom Waits. It is the opening track on Waits' 1973 debut album, Closing Time. The song was covered by the Eagles on their 1974 album On the Border....
" - 3:55 - "Diamonds on My Windshield" - 3:10
- "Heart of Saturday Night" - 3:50
- "I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love With You" - 3:52
- "Martha" - 4:26
- "Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)" - 6:32
- "The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me)" - 3:37
- "I Never Talk to Strangers" - 3:37
- "Somewhere (From West Side StoryWest Side StoryWest Side Story is an American musical with a script by Arthur Laurents, music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and choreographed by Jerome Robbins...
)" (Bernstein, Sondheim) - 3:50 - "Burma Shave" - 6:40
- "Jersey GirlJersey Girl (song)"Jersey Girl" is a song composed and originally sung by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits from his 1980 album Heartattack and Vine.-Waits original:Waits wrote the song with his future wife Kathleen Brennan, who had been living in New Jersey...
" - 5:08 - "San Diego Serenade" - 3:25
- "A Sight for Sore Eyes" - 4:39