Closing Time is the debut album by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits, released in March 1973 on Asylum Records. Produced and arranged by former Lovin' Spoonful member Jerry Yester, Closing Time was the first of seven of Waits' major releases by Asylum. The album is noted for being predominantly folk influenced although Waits intended for Closing Time to be "a jazz, piano-led album.
Album · 1986 · 14 Songs. The Asylum Years Tom Waits. Tom Traubert's Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind In Copenhagen).
The Asylum Years Tom Waits. Manufactured and Distributed by Anti, a division of Epitaph, A California Corp.
Asylum Years is the second "best of" compilation covering Tom Waits' Asylum Records years. The album retreads more than half of the track-listing of Anthology of Tom Waits. Songs written by Tom Waits, except where noted. Diamonds on My Windshield" - 3:08. (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night" - 3:55.
Album Name Asylum Years.
Other albums by Tom Waits. Orphans (Brawlers, Bawlers & Bastards). Semi Suit, Live Broadcast 1975. The second British Tom Waits compilation was a more extensive look at the 1973-1980 Asylum Records catalog than the first, Bounced Checks from 1981 (four more tracks), but it was another idiosyncratic selection.
Tom Waits had one of the wildest trajectories of any rock artist in the 1970s-or possibly ever. A regular presence in San Diego’s coffeehouse folk scene in the late 1960s, he was living out of his car when Herb Cohen, the manager for the Mothers of Invention and Linda Ronstadt, discovered him and helped to secure a record deal with the fledgling Asylum Records. David Geffen and Elliot Roberts had just opened the label in 1971, but already it was a home to some of Southern California’s finest singer-songwriters, including Jackson Browne, Judee Sill, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young In the context of Waits’ nearly fifty-year career, 1980’s Heartattack and Vine is often discussed as a transitional album, a pivot away from the jazzier settings of his Asylum records and toward a much wilder and weirder mode.
On this page you can listen to mp3 music free or download album or mp3 track to your PC, phone or tablet Tom Waits - Martha (album version)
The second British Tom Waits compilation was a more extensive look at the 1973-1980 Asylum Records catalog than the first, Bounced Checks from 1981 (four more tracks), but it was another idiosyncratic selection.
Tracklist
A1 | Ol' 55 |
A2 | Martha |
A3 | Rosie |
A4 | Shiver Me Timbers |
A5 | San Diego Serenade |
B1 | Diamonds On My Windshield |
B2 | (Looking For) The Heart Of Saturday Night |
B3 | The Ghosts Of Saturday Night (After Hours At Napoleone's Pizza House) |
B4 | Small Change |
B5 | Tom Traubert's Blues |
C1 | Step Right Up |
C2 | Burma Shave |
C3 | Foreign Affair |
C4 | Mr. Henry |
C5 | The Piano Has Been Drinking |
D1 | Potter's Field |
D2 | Kentucky Avenue |
D3 | Somewhere (From 'West Side Story') |
D4 | On The Nickel |
D5 | Ruby's Arms |
Credits
- Arranged By [Orchestra], Conductor – Bob Alcivar (tracks: C2, C3, D1)
- Producer – Bones Howe (tracks: A4, A5, C, D, E), Jerry Yester (tracks: A1 to 3)
Notes
A1-3: from Closing TimeA4-5, B1-3: from The Heart of Saturday Night
B4 to 5, C1 & 5: from Small Change
C2 to 3, D1: from Foreign Affairs
C4: from Bounced Checks
D2 to 3: from Blue Valentine
D4 to 5: from Heartattack and Vine
Other versions
Category | Artist | Title (Format) | Label | Category | Country | Year |
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960 321-1 | Tom Waits | Asylum Years (2xLP, Comp) | Asylum Records | 960 321-1 | Europe | 1984 |
960321-4 | Tom Waits | Asylum Years (Cass, Comp) | Asylum Records | 960321-4 | Europe | 1984 |
EKCD 6284 | Tom Waits | Asylum Years (CD, Comp) | Asylum Records | EKCD 6284 | South Africa | 1986 |
60321-1 | Tom Waits | Asylum Years (2xLP, Comp) | Asylum Records | 60321-1 | Australia | 1984 |
32XD-688 | Tom Waits | Asylum Years (CD, Comp) | Asylum Records | 32XD-688 | Japan | 1987 |