Tom Waits - The Heart of Saturday Night - LP - 1974 Original Pressing - 7E-1015
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The Heart of Saturday Night is the second studio album by singer and songwriter Tom Waits, released on October 15, 1974 on Asylum Records. The title song was written as a tribute to Jack Kerouac. The album marks the start of a decade-long collaboration between Waits and Bones Howe, who produced and engineered all Waits' recordings until the artist left Asylum.
In a contemporary review for The Village Voice, Janet Maslin regarded the songs as tawdry affectations of "a boozy vertigo" marred by Waits' vague lyrics and ill-advised puns on an album that is "too self-consciously limited" in mood. "It demands to be listened to after hours", Maslin wrote, "when that cloud of self-pitying gloom has descended and the vino is close at hand". Fellow Village Voice critic Robert Christgau was also critical of Waits' compositions, writing that "there might be as many coverable songs here as there were on his first album if mournful melodies didn't merge into neo imagery in the spindrift dirge of the honky-tonk beatnik night. Dig?"
In a retrospective review for the Los Angeles Times, Buddy Seigal was more impressed by Waits' "touchingly, unashamedly sentimental" songs, calling The Heart of Saturday Night perhaps the singer's most "mature, ingenuous and fully realized" album. It was ranked number 339 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
Track listing
All songs written and composed by Tom Waits.
Side one
No. Title Length 1. "New Coat of Paint" 3:23 2. "San Diego Serenade" 3:30 3. "Semi Suite" 3:29 4. "Shiver Me Timbers" 4:26 5. "Diamonds on My Windshield" 3:12 6. "(Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night" 3:53Side two
No. Title Length 1. "Fumblin' with the Blues" 3:02 2. "Please Call Me, Baby" 4:25 3. "Depot, Depot" 3:46 4. "Drunk on the Moon" 5:06 5. "The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone's Pizza House)" 3:16 Total length: 41:28Personnel
All personnel credits are as listed in the album's liner notes.
Performer- Tom Waits – vocals, piano, guitar
- Jim Hughart – double bass
- Pete Christlieb – tenor saxophone
- Tom Scott - clarinet
- Jim Gordon – drums
- Bob Alcivar – arranger
- Mike Melvoin - "head" arrangements and complementary orchestral arrangements and direction
- Bones Howe – producer, engineer
- Geoff Howe – engineer
- Pamela Vale - production coordinator
- Terry Dunavan – mastering
- Cal Schenkel – art direction
- Lynn Lascaro – illustrations
- Scott Smith – photography The Heart of Saturday Night Studio album by Tom Waits Released October 15, 1974 Studio Wally Heider Recording Studio, Hollywood, California Genre Folk, blues, jazz Length 41:28 Label Asylum Producer Bones Howe
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