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Tom Waits

Foreign Affairs

Asylum Records 7E-1117  LP 33RPM 12" 1977 (USA)

Tom Waits gives one side of his fifth album, Foreign Affairs, to his more structured, bluesy ballads and the other to his jazz raps. On side one, you get his duet with Bette Midler on the singles-bar dialogue "I Never Talk to Strangers" and his take on his Beat predecessors Jack Kerouac and Neal Cassidy on "Jack & Neal." On side two, you find the extended observations of "Potter's Field" and "Burma-shave." Waits' voice is more gravelly, but his basic musical approach remaines the same, and by this point he's attracted a steady cult audience that enjoy his verbal flights and boozy philosopher persona.

Tracklist
A1 Cinny's Waltz 2:16
A2 Muriel 3:33
A3 I Never Talk To Strangers  Featuring [Co-Starring] – Bette Midler  3:37
A4 Medley: Jack & Neal / California, Here I Come  Written-By [California Here I Come] – Al Jolson, Buddy G. De Sylva, Joseph Meyer  5:00
A5 A Sight For Sore Eyes 4:39
B1 Potter's Field  Clarinet, Soloist – Gene Cipriano  Music By, Arranged By, Conductor – Bob Alcivar  Words By – Tom Waits  8:38
B2 Burma-Shave 6:32
B3 Barber Shop 3:52
B4 Foreign Affair 3:46

Phonographic Copyright (p) – Elektra/Asylum Records
Copyright (c) – Elektra/Asylum Records
Record Company – Warner Communications Inc.
Produced For – Mr. Bones Productions, Inc.
Recorded At – Filmways/Heider Recording
Mastered At – Elektra Sound Recorders
Published By – Fifth Floor Music, Inc.
Published By – Warner Bros. Inc.
Phonographic Copyright (p) – Asylum Records
Manufactured By – Elektra/Asylum/Nonesuch Records
Pressed By – Specialty Records Corporation

Arranged By [Orchestra], Conductor – Bob Alcivar
Art Direction, Design – Glen Christensen
Bass – Jim Hughart
Drums – Shelly Manne
Engineer [2nd Engineer] – Geoff Howe
Management [Bail Bonds & Bizness Affairs] – Herb Cohen
Management [Orchestra] – Edgar Lustgarten (2), Jim Robak
Mastered By [Disc Mastering] – Terry Dunavan
Photography By – George Hurrell
Piano, Vocals – Tom Waits
Producer [Production And Sound], Engineer – Bones Howe
Tenor Saxophone, Soloist – Frank Vicari
Trumpet, Soloist – Jack Sheldon
Written-By – Tom Waits (tracks: A1 to A3, A5, B2 to B4)

Specialty Records Corporation pressing. Labels with "Tom Waits" and "Foreign Affairs" on two lines above the tracklist. Printed inner sleeve with lyrics.

Every performance on this album was recorded simultaniously with the orchestra in the studio with no overdubbing or multi-tracking; and was mixed directly to the 2-track master tape as it was being performed.
Recorded July 28, August 2, 11, 12, 15, 1977 at Filmways/Heider Recording, Hollywood.
Disc Mastering: Elektra Sound Recorders Los Angeles.

Chuck E. Weiss is back in town.
Thanks to Norman Savage, David "Doe" Feuer and Bobby Savage. I'll see you in Coney Island.
Thanks to Dee Barnett and Roberta McKernan.

Bette Midler appears courtesy of Atlantic Recording Corperation
Bette, you're absolutely colossal! --Waits

Forward all my mail to the corner of Pork & Beans

℗ & © 1977 Elektra/Asylum Records [back cover]
℗ 1977 Asylum Records [labels]

All songs published by Fifth Floor Music, Inc. ASCAP, with the exception of "California, Here I Come" published by Warner Bros. Inc. ASCAP

Vinyl is NEAR MINT in a printed lyric sheet inner sleeve in a hard card picture sleeve in VERY GOOD condition (ring wear, corner bend, delete cut) in a plastic protector sleeve.

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