Tom Waits & Crystal Gayle

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Tom Waits & Crystal Gayle released an album, One from the Heart, in 1982. It’s a soundtrack album of Tom Waits compositions for the Francis Ford Coppola movie of the same name, One from the Heart. It was recorded from October 1980 to September 1981. The soundtrack was nominated for an Academy Award for Original Music Score.

Crystal Gayle features prominently on the record, performing either solo vocal or singing in duet with Waits on many of the songs. For Coppola’s film, Waits originally wanted to work with Bette Midler, who previously sang a duet with him on the Billie Holiday-esque track “I Never Talk to Strangers” from Foreign Affairs, but due to previous engagements, Midler was unavailable.

During the film/album project Waits met his wife Kathleen Brennan, an employee at the studio where it was recorded.

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1	I Beg Your Pardon	61
2	Picking Up After You	39
3	Broken Bicycles	36
4	This One's From The Heart	33
5	Little Boy Blue	30
5	Take Me Home	30
5	Presents	30
8	Old Boyfriends	27
9	Is There Any Way Out of This Dream?	25
10	You Can't Unring A Bell	20
11	Instrumental Montage (The Tango, Circus Girl)	14
12	Opening Montage (Tom's Piano Intro)	13
13	Instrumental Montage: The Tango/Circus Girl	9
14	Instrumental montage	6
15	Opening Montage	4

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mamafanfan wrote:
16 days ago

m2

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TheAcidQueen_x wrote:
18 days ago

I hated this album!

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NikaGR wrote:
23 days ago

amazing couple in song!

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m79k wrote:
last month

I love this band, wish they'd made more albums ;)

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lorene_ wrote:
May 2008

Probably Tom Waits' most underrated album.

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ikhon wrote:
April 2008

you cant unring a bell, junior.

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PistolWhipJesus wrote:
March 2008

I would like a link also.

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masque7 wrote:
March 2008

might give this a try, anyone got a link?

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vargas_girl wrote:
November 2007

an unusual duo to be sure, but oddly it works well. I never could get into Crystal Gayle's solo stuff (my dad played her music all the time when I was kid) but she captures Tom's material well. I particularly like Broken Bicycles and Old Boyfriends.

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