cover of Waits, Tom - Franks Wild Years

Tom Waits – Franks Wild Years

1987, United States
00:56:38; 52M; 112JS; 90;
  1. Hang on St. Christopher - 2:46
  2. Straight to the top (rhumba) - 2:30
  3. Blow wind Blow - 3:35
  4. Temptation - 3:53
  5. Innocent when you dream - 4:15
  6. I'll be gone - 3:12
  7. Yestardays here - 2:29
  8. Please wake me - 3:36
  9. Franks theme - 1:49
  10. More then rain - 3:51
  11. Why down in the hole - 3:30
  12. Straigh to the top - 3:26
  13. I'll take new york - 3:58
  14. Telephone call from istanbul - 3:12
  15. cold call ground - 4:07
  16. Train song - 3:20
  17. Innocent when you dream (78) - 3:09

Michael Blair - drums [A1, B3, B4, B5], congas [A2], glockenspiel [A3], percussion, congas, maracas [A4], marimba [A6], bells [orquestra bells] [B1], percussion [B2]
Tchad Blake - engineer [additional engineers]
Kathleen Brennan - arranged by [vocals arrangements by] [A4], written-by [A6, A7, A8]
Angela Brown - backing vocals [B2]
Ralph Carney - tenor saxophone [A1, B3], saxophone [saxes] [A2, B2], saxophone [A4, B4], violin [A5], horn [baritone] [A6], horn [baritone horn] [A8, B1]
Lorita De La Cerna - engineer [additional engineers]
Greg Cohen - arranged by [horn arrangements by] [A1, A4], horn [alto horn] [A1, A3, B7], keyboards [leslie bass pedals] [A2], written-by [A2, B3], bass [A4, A5, A6, A8, B1, B2, B3, B4, B5], arranged by [B3]
Biff Dawes - mixed by, recorded by
Frankie Doctor - coordinator [project coordinators]
David Glover - engineer [additional engineers]
David Hidalgo - accordion [B6, B7]
Bill Higley - engineer [additional engineers]
Leslie Holland - backing vocals [B2]
Lynne Jordan - backing vocals [B2]
Mike Kloster - engineer [additional engineers]
David Knight - engineer [additional engineers]
Mathilde LeMann - artwork by [make-up]
Danny Leake - recorded by
Catharina Masters-Bunch - coordinator [project coordinators]
J.B. Mondino - artwork by [conception], photography
Jeff Price - art direction
Marc Ribot - guitar [A1, A4, B2], banjo [B5]
William Schimmel - keyboards [leslie bass pedals] [A1], organ [pump] [A2, B4], piano [A5], accordion [A6, B1], piano [cocktail piano] [B3]
Stephen Shelton - engineer [additional engineers]
Ellen Smith - other [producer's assistant]
Larry Taylor - double bass [upright bass] [A2], bass [A7, B6, B7]
Morris Tepper - guitar [A4, A6, B1, B5]
Francis Thumm - organ [pump] [A3], piano [prepared piano] [B1]
Tom Waits - producer, vocals [A1, B2, B4], written-by [A1, A2, A3, A4, A5, A6, A7, A8, A9, B1, B2, B3, B4, B5, B6, B7], vocals, keyboards [optigon], congas [A2], vocals, organ [pump] [A3, A9], keyboards [optigon], vocals, guitar [A4], organ [pump], vocals [A5], vocals, performer [rooster] [A6], vocals, guitar, tambourine [A7], vocals, mellotron, keyboards [optigon] [A8], vocals, keyboards [optigon] [B1], vocals [vocal stylings] [B3], vocals, organ [farfisa], drums [B5], guitar [guitars], vocals [B6], piano, vocals, organ [pump] [B7]
Howie Weinberg - mastered by

"Un operachi romantico in two acts"

The theatrical debut of Franks Wild Years by Kathleen Brennan and Tom Waits had its world premiere in Chicago, Illinois June 22, 1986 with Steppenwolf Theatre Company at the Briar St. Theatre in association with Jujamcyn.

Recorded at Sunset Sound, Los Angeles; Sunset Sound Factory, Los Angeles; Universal Recording Corp., Chicago.

Mixed at Sunset Sound, Los Angeles.

Mastered at Masterdisk, New York.

Dedicated to Kathleen.

David Hidalgo appears courtesy of Slash/Warner Bros. Inc.

© 1986, 1987 Jalma Music, admin. by Ackee Music, Inc. (ASCAP)

Both forms of the catalog number appear on the release:
7 90572-4 on the spine, and
90572-4 on the cassette.

Island Records, Inc., distributed by ATCO Records, division of Atlantic Recording Corporation, A Warner Communications Company.
℗ © 1987 Island Records, Inc.
TM owned by Island Entertainment Group, Inc.
Printed in U.S.A.

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