Jay S. Jacobs - Wild Years

I would like to thank all those people who played either small or large parts in the creation of this book. It would have been impossible without them.

To Leslie Diamond and Debbie Jacobs, thanks for always being there with advice, help, and the occasional kick in the backside when I needed it.

To Robert Lecker, Holly Potter, Emma McKay, Mary Williams, and the people of ECW Press, thank you for this wonderful opportunity and for having so much faith in me.

To Gary Tausch, thank you so much for your tireless assistance with my research, for sharing your encyclopedic knowledge with me, and for giving me access to your vast library. You were truly indispensable.

To Craig Morrison, I am very grateful for all of your editorial advice and suggestions. You have played a vital role in making this book what it is.

To Bones Howe, Jerry Yester, David Geffen, Mike Melvoin, Francis Ford Coppola, and everyone else who so generously shared their feelings about, and memories of, Tom Waits (both on and off the record), thank you. Also, to Barney Hoskyns, David Zimmer, Mark Rowland, and the good people at Rolling Stone and KCRW radio, thank you for allowing me to draw on your work.

To Lou Hirshorn, Mark and Marie Healy, Bob, Roni, and Colleen McGowan, Drew Bergman, Sam Bergman, John Ruback, Damian Childress, Phil Green, Ron Sklar, Mary Aloe, George Wagner, Ken and Terry Sharp, Lucille Falk, Frances Zucker, Wayne Diamond, Alan and Sandra Feroe, Dave Feroe, Kathy Feroe, Christina Feroe, Sheila Graham, Ron Merx, and so many others, thank you for taking me away from the computer for the occasional stiff drink (or whatever) and listening to me bitch on and on about things without telling me to shut up. Its appreciated more than you know.

Lastly and most importantly to Tom Waits, thank you for being such an inspiration, both as an artist and a man, for so many years. I know that your next fifty years will be as fascinating as your last fifty have been.

Ebet Roberts / Redferns

Elektra 5061 (1973)

1. Ol 55

2. I Hope That I Dont Fall in Love with You

3. Virginia Avenue

4. Old Shoes (And Picture Postcards)

5. Midnight Lullaby

6. Martha

7. Rosie

8. Lonely

9. Ice Cream Man

10. Little Trip to Heaven (On the Wings of Your Love)

11. Grapefruit Moon

12. Closing Time

All songs written by Tom Waits.

Produced by Jerry Yester for Third Story Productions.

Asylum 1015 (1974)

1. New Coat of Paint

2. San Diego Serenade

3. Semi Suite

4. Shiver Me Timbers

5. Diamonds on My Windshield

6. (Looking For) The Heart of Saturday Night

7. Fumblin with the Blues

8. Please Call Me, Baby

9. Depot, Depot

10. Drunk on the Moon

11. The Ghosts of Saturday Night (After Hours at Napoleones Pizza House)

All songs written by Tom Waits.

Production and sound by Bones Howe for Mr. Bones Productions.

Asylum 2008 (1975)

1. Opening Intro

2. Emotional Weather Report

3. Intro

4. On a Foggy Night

5. Intro

6. Eggs and Sausage (In a Cadillac with Susan Michelson)

7. Intro

8. Better Off Without a Wife

9. Nighthawk Postcards (From Easy Street)

10. Intro

11. Warm Beer and Cold Women

12. Intro

13. Putnam County

14. Spare Parts I (A Nocturnal Emission) (Tom Waits and Chuck E. Weiss)

15. Nobody Intro

16. Big Joe and Phantom 309 (Tommy Faile)

17. Spare Parts II and Closing

All songs written by Tom Waits except where noted.

Production and sound by Bones Howe for Mr. Bones Productions.

Asylum 1078 (1976)

1. Tom Trauberts Blues (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen)

2. Step Right Up

3. Jitterbug Boy (Sharing a Curbstone with Chuck E. Weiss, Robert Marchese, Paul Body and the Mug and Artie)

4. I Wish I Was in New Orleans (In the Ninth Ward)

5. The Piano Has Been Drinking (Not Me) (An Evening with Pete King)

6. Invitation to the Blues

7. Pasties and a G-String (At the Two OClock Club)

8. Bad Liver and a Broken Heart (In Lowell)

9. The One That Got Away

10. Small Change (Got Rained on with His Own .38)

11. I Cant Wait to Get off Work (And See My Baby on Montgomery Avenue)

All songs written by Tom Waits.

Production and sound by Bones Howe for Mr. Bones Productions.

Elektra 1117 (1977)

1. Cinnys Waltz

2. Muriel

3. I Never Talk to Strangers (duet with Bette Midler)

4. Medley: Jack and Neal/California, Here I Come (Tom Waits/Joseph Meyer, Al Jolson, and Buddy G. De Sylva)

5. A Sight for Sore Eyes

6. Potters Field (Tom Waits and Bob Alcivar)

7. Burma Shave

8. Barber Shop

9. Foreign Affair

All songs written by Tom Waits except where noted.

Production and sound by Bones Howe. A Mr. Bones Production.

Elektra 162 (1978)

1. Somewhere (from West Side Story) (Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim)

2. Red Shoes by the Drugstore

3. Christmas Card from a Hooker in Minneapolis

4. Romeo Is Bleeding

5. $29.00

6. Wrong Side of the Road

7. Whistlin Past the Graveyard

8. Kentucky Avenue

9. A Sweet Little Bullet from a Pretty Blue Gun

10. Blue Valentines

All songs written by Tom Waits except where noted.

Production and sound by Bones Howe. A Mr. Bones Production.

Elektra 295 (1980)

1. Heartattack and Vine

2. In Shades

3. Saving All My Love for You

4. Downtown

5. Jersey Girl

6. Til the Money Runs Out

7. On the Nickel

8. Mr. Siegal

9. Rubys Arms

All songs written by Tom Waits.

Production and sound by Bones Howe. A B. H. Production.

Asylum 7200 (1981)

1. Heartattack and Vine

2. Jersey Girl (alternate take)