Tom Waits - Closing Time (1973)

Closing Time can mean:

Closing time, the point in time when a business establishment ceases operations for the day. In the case of a bar, this is called "last call" (for alcohol).

Studio album by Tom Waits Released May 1973

Recorded Sunset Sound, Hollywood

Label Asylum Producer Jerry Yester Engineer Richie Moore

Cal Schenkel Package Ed Caraeff Photography

Personnel

Delbert Bennett – trumpet Bill Plummer – bass John Seiter – drums, background vocals

Tony Terran – trumpet Tom Waits – celeste, vocals, guitar, piano Jesse Ehrlich - cello

Arni Egilsson - bass instrument Shep Cooke Guitar, Vocals Peter Klimes Guitar

Closing Time is the debut album of Tom Waits, released in 1973 on Asylum Records.

Contrary to some belief, the song "Ice Cream Man" is a Waits original, not a cover of the John Brim blues standard of the same title. Waits' version, however, was covered in 1993 by Screamin' Jay Hawkins for his album Black Music For White People.

A cover version of "Ol' '55" was later a hit for The Eagles, who recorded it for their 1974 album On the Border.

The song "Midnight Lullaby" borrows its opening line from the English nursery rhyme "Sing a Song of Sixpence".

"Ol' '55" – 3:58 "I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love With You" – 3:54 "Virginia Avenue" – 3:10 "Old Shoes (& Picture Postcards)" – 3:40 "Midnight Lullaby" – 3:26 "Martha" – 4:30 "Rosie" – 4:03 "Lonely" – 3:12 "Ice Cream Man" – 3:05 "Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love)" – 3:38 "Grapefruit Moon" – 4:50 "Closing Time" (instrumental) – 4:20

Length 45:46

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