Foreign Affairs

Tracklist

• 1
  Cinny’s Waltz
  2:17
• 2
  Muriel
  3:33
• 3
  I Never Talk to Strangers

  feat. Bette Midler
  3:38
• 4
  Medley: Jack & Neal / California, Here I Come
  5:01
• 5
  A Sight for Sore Eyes
  4:40
• 6
  Potter’s Field
  8:40
• 7
  Burma‐Shave
  6:34
  4.0 ★
• 8
  Barber Shop
  3:54
• 9
  Foreign Affair
  3:46

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Release credits

• Bette Midler
  performer [3], vocal [3]
• Bob Alcivar
  conductor [3, 7]
• Dayton “Bones” Howe
  engineer [1-2, 4-6, 8-9], producer, sound [3, 7]
• Gene Cipriano
  clarinet [6], solo [6]
• Geoff Howe
  assistant
• Tom Waits
  vocal [2-9]

Issues

• F
  (Combined release view)
• 

  F
  Foreign Affairs

  12" Vinyl
  September 1977
• 

  F
  Foreign Affairs

  CD
  1990
• 

  F
  Foreign Affairs

  CD
  March 1995
• 

  F
  Foreign Affairs

  CD (Limited Edition)
  10 March 2010
• 

  F
  Foreign Affairs

  Digital Media (remastered)
  9 March 2018
• 

  F
  Foreign Affairs

  CD (Newly Remastered with Waits/Brennan)
  23 March 2018
• F
  Foreign Affairs

  CD (Remastered)
  23 March 2018