Tom Waits - I Beg Your Pardon (and other 'One From The Heart' delights)

I Beg Your Pardon

from a favourite film ‘One From The Heart’ and therefore a favourite soundtrack and using the duel voices of Tom and Crystal Gayle was inspired and the film not least because it featured major crush Terri Garr and of course the stunning muse figure here of Nastasia Kinski and the much missed fine fine actor Fred Forrest . . . . . . 

Take Me Home - Crystal Gayle soundtrack version

or

Take Me Home - Tom Waits and Crystal Gayle - Studio Outtake Making of One From The Heart - duet

and with that I will sign off for the evening and indeed the weekend . . . . go well afficianados of music and stay safe and well wherever you are

and I hope there is someone to take you home, you silly boy!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAESTRO! - TOM WAITS’ 74th BIRTHDAY TODAY

Take Me Home - Tom and Crystal Gayle (This One’s From The Heart Francis Ford Coppola)

 

Photo: Tom Waits Rotterdam (Hilton) 6-02-1983 (by Rob Verhorst)

"I just try to walk my own path," he said. "You have to believe in yourself and you have to ride out the seasons. Everybody wants it to be summer all the time, in relationships and with their career. And when the weather starts to turn, they think they better get out. So it takes a certain amount of persistence."

"I'm an old softie," Mr. Waits said. "Most songwriters are probably writing one or two songs over and over again in one way or another. Kathleen said that with me, it's either Grand Weepers or Grim Reapers. Yeah, I run hot and cold. I like melody, and I like dissonance. I guess maybe it's an alcoholic personality. I get mad, and I cry."

"Sometimes songs are coming so fast there's not enough to catch them in," he said. "And other days you have to do a rain dance for it. You wait. I've got tape recorders all over the house. I can scribble notes on a napkin. But what I've really done is learn to exercise my memory. If I have a melody in my head, my challenge is to keep it in my head all day. And then try to sit down to dinner, forget it and then go back in the car and see if I can remember it again. I think if this is a really good melody it'll never leave me. Some you lose. A lot of them get away. Those are the best songs, the ones that got away."

Interview By JON PARELES

sorry should have acknowledged that I found this at Don’s Tunes

Mr Don Draper that is!

Well I Hope That I Don’t Fall In Love with You (KPFK Folkscene Rare live performance 1973)

and . . . . 

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