Original Album Series

Tracklist

• CD 1: Closing Time
• 1
  Ol’ ’55
  3:57
  4.0 ★
• 2
  I Hope That I Don’t Fall in Love With You
  3:54
  3.6 ★
• 3
  Virginia Avenue
  3:10
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)
  3:40
  3.5 ★
• 5
  Midnight Lullaby
  3:26
  2.5 ★
• 6
  Martha
  4:30
  3.4 ★
• 7
  Rosie
  4:03
  2.5 ★
• 8
  Lonely
  3:12
  2.0 ★
• 9
  Ice Cream Man
  3:05
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love)
  3:38
  2.0 ★
• 11
  Grapefruit Moon
  4:50
  2.5 ★
• 12
  Closing Time
  4:20
  3.0 ★
• CD 2: The Heart of Saturday Night
• 1
  New Coat of Paint
  3:22
  3.5 ★
• 2
  San Diego Serenade
  3:30
  4.0 ★
• 3
  Semi Suite
  3:29
  3.0 ★
• 4
  Shiver Me Timbers
  4:26
  3.0 ★
• 5
  Diamonds on My Windshield
  3:12
  3.0 ★
• 6
  (Looking for) The Heart of Saturday Night
  3:53
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Fumblin’ With the Blues
  3:02
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Please Call Me, Baby
  4:25
  4.0 ★
• 9
  Depot, Depot
  3:46
  3.0 ★
• 10
  Drunk on the Moon
  5:06
  3.0 ★
• 11
  The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleone’s Pizza Place)
  3:16
  3.5 ★
• CD 3: Nighthawks at the Diner
• 1
  [opening intro]
  2:57
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Emotional Weather Report
  3:47
  3.5 ★
• 3
  [intro]
  2:16
  3.0 ★
• 4
  On a Foggy Night
  3:48
  3.0 ★
• 5
  [intro]
  1:53
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Eggs and Sausage (in a Cadillac with Susan Michelson)
  3.0 ★
• 7
  [intro]
  3:02
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Better Off Without a Wife
  3:59
  3.0 ★
• 9
  Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)
  11:29
  2.5 ★
• 10
  [intro]
  0:56
  2.5 ★
• 11
  Warm Beer and Cold Women
  5:21
  3.0 ★
• 12
  [intro]
  0:47
  2.5 ★
• 13
  Putnam County
  7:35
  3.0 ★
• 14
  Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission)
  6:25
  3.0 ★
• 15
  Nobody
  2:50
  3.0 ★
• 16
  [intro]
  0:41
  2.5 ★
• 17
  Big Joe and Phantom 309
  6:28
  2.5 ★
• 18
  Spare Parts II and Closing
  5:13
  3.0 ★
• CD 4: Small Change
• 1
  Tom Traubert’s Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)
  6:39
  3.0 ★
• 2
  Step Right Up
  5:43
  2.0 ★
• 3
  Jitterbug Boy (Sharing a Curbstone with Chuck E. Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body and the Mug and Artie)
  3:44
  2.0 ★
• 4
  I Wish I Was in New Orleans (in the Ninth Ward)
  4:53
  3.0 ★
• 5
  The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (an evening with Pete King)
  3:40
  3.0 ★
• 6
  Invitation to the Blues
  5:24
  3.0 ★
• 7
  Pasties and a G‐String (at the Two O’Clock club)
  2:32
  3.0 ★
• 8
  Bad Liver and a Broken Heart (in Lowell)
  4:50
  3.0 ★
• 9
  The One That Got Away
  4:07
  2.0 ★
• 10
  Small Change (Got Rained on With His Own .38)
  5:07
  2.0 ★
• 11
  I Can’t Wait to Get Off Work (and See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue)
  3:17
  3.0 ★
• CD 5: Foreign Affairs
• 1
  Cinny’s Waltz
  2:17
• 2
  Muriel
  3:33
• 3
  I Never Talk to Strangers
  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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Glitter and Doom Live: The Orpheum Theatre 2008

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Release credits

• Alfred Lustgarten
  violin [1, 4]
• Allan Harshman
  viola [1, 4]
• Anthony Terran
  guest [12], trumpet [12]
• Bette Midler
  performer [3], vocal [3]
• Bill Goodwin
  drums (drum set) [3.1-6, 3.8-9, 3.11, 3.13-15, 3.18, 2.1-11]
• Bill Plummer
  double bass [1, 7]
• Bob Alcivar
  arranger [1-11], conductor [3, 7]
• David Schwartz
  viola [1, 4]
• Dayton “Bones” Howe
  engineer [2.1-4, 2.6-10, 3.1-18, 4.1-11, 5.1-2, 5.4-6, 5.8-9], producer [2.1-11, 3.1-18, 4.1-11, 5.1-9], sound [2.5-6, 2.11, 5.3, 5.7, 1.6, 1.11]
• Delbert Bennett
  trumpet [1-12]
• Edgar Lustgarten
  cello [1, 4]
• Gene Cipriano
  clarinet [6], solo [6]
• Geoff Howe
  assistant [5.1-9, 2.1-11]
• George Kast
  violin [1, 4]
• Harry Bluestone
  violin [1, 4]
• Israel Baker
  violin [1, 4]
• Jerry Yester
  conductor [1, 4], producer [1-12], strings [1, 4]
• Jesse Ehrlich
  cello [4.1, 4.4, 1.1-12], guest [6]
• Jim Hughart
  double bass [4.1-11, 2.1-11, 3.1-6, 3.8-9, 3.11, 3.13-18]
• John Seiter
  background vocals [1, 7], drums (drum set) [1-12]
• Kathleen Lustgarten
  cello [1, 4]
• Marvin Limonick
  violin [1, 4]
• Mike Melvoin
  electric piano [6, 8, 11, 13], piano [1-2, 4, 9, 14, 18]
• Murray Adler
  violin [1, 4]
• Nathan Kaproff
  violin [1, 4]
• Nathan Ross
  violin [1, 4]
• Pete Christlieb
  tenor saxophone [2.1-11, 3.1-6, 3.9, 3.11, 3.13-14, 3.18]
• Peter Klimes
  guitar [1], pedal steel guitar [7]
• Raymond Kelley
  cello [1, 4]
• Richard Moore
  engineer [1-12], mix [1-12]
• Samuel Boghossian
  viola [1, 4]
• Sheldon Sandu
  violin [1, 4]
• Shelly Manne
  drums (drum set) [1-11]
• Shep Cooke
  background vocals [4], guitar [1-12]
• Tom Waits
  guitar [3-4, 16-17], piano [3.5-8, 3.10-13, 3.15, 2.1-11, 1.1-12], vocal [3.1-18, 4.1-11, 5.2-9, 2.1-11, 1.1-11]
• Árni Egilsson
  bass guitar [12], guest [12]
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Issues

• 

  O
  Original Album Series

  5x CD
  2011