Asylum Years

Tracklist

• 1
  Diamonds on My Windshield
  3:10
  3.0 ★
• 2
  (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night
  3:52
  3.0 ★
• 3
  Martha
  4:25
  3.4 ★
• 4
  The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone’s Pizza House)
  3:12
  3.5 ★
• 5
  Grapefruit Moon
  4:46
  2.5 ★
• 6
  Small Change
  5:03
• 7
  Burma Shave
  6:30
  4.0 ★
• 8
  I Never Talk to Strangers

  feat. Bette Midler
  3:37
• 9
  Tom Traubert’s Blues
  6:40
• 10
  Blue Valentines
  5:50
• 11
  Potter’s Field
  8:38
• 12
  Kentucky Avenue
  4:47
  4.0 ★
• 13
  Somewhere (from ‘West Side Story’)
  3:50
  4.0 ★
• 14
  Ruby’s Arms
  5:36

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Release credits

• Bette Midler
  performer [8], vocal [8]
• Bill Goodwin
  drums (drum set) [1-2, 4]
• Bob Alcivar
  arranger [1-2, 4], conductor [7-8, 11]
• Dayton “Bones” Howe
  engineer [2, 14], producer [1-2, 4, 6-14], sound
• Delbert Bennett
  trumpet [3, 5]
• Geoff Howe
  assistant [1-2, 4, 7-8, 12-13], engineer [14]
• Greg Cohen
  bass [14]
• Jerry Yester
  arranger [14], conductor [14], producer [3, 5]
• Jesse Ehrlich
  cello [3, 5], guest [3]
• Jim Hughart
  double bass [1-2, 4]
• John Seiter
  drums (drum set) [3, 5]
• Pete Christlieb
  tenor saxophone [1-2, 4]
• Ralph Osborn
  assistant [12-13]
• Richard Moore
  engineer [3, 5], mix [3, 5]
• Roland Bautista
  12 string guitar [14]
• Shep Cooke
  guitar [3, 5]
• Tom Waits
  piano [1-5, 12, 14], vocal
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Issues

• 

  A
  (Combined release view)
• 

  A
  Asylum Years

  2x 12" Vinyl
  1984
• 

  A
  Asylum Years

  CD
  October 1986
• A
  Asylum Years

  Unknown format
  8 December 1986
• 

  A
  Asylum Years

  CD
  1986
• 

  A
  Asylum Years

  CD
  1998