 | This article is within the scope of WikiProject Songs, an attempt to build a comprehensive and detailed guide to songs on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion. | Ol' '55 is a song written and recorded by Tom Waits. It is the first track on Waits' debut album, Closing Time, released in 1973. The song was covered with greater chart success by The Eagles, released on their 1974 album On the Border. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1004x684, 91 KB) Summary A 12 record, a 7″ record, and a CD-ROM. Un disque 30cm, un disque 17cm et un CD-ROM Licensing File links The following pages link to this file: Talk:Please Please Me Talk:Bookends Talk...
A song is a relatively short musical composition. ...
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A collection of various CD singles In music, a single is a short recording of one or more separate tracks. ...
Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. ...
Closing Time is the debut album of Tom Waits, released in 1973 (see 1973 in music) on Asylum Records. ...
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original logo current logo Asylum Records is a record label which was started in 1971 by David Geffen. ...
A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ...
Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. ...
Thomas Alan Waits (born December 7, 1949) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor. ...
Closing Time is the debut album of Tom Waits, released in 1973 (see 1973 in music) on Asylum Records. ...
The Eagles are an American rock music group that originally came together in Los Angeles, California in the early 1970s. ...
For the restaurant chain, see On the Border (restaurant). ...
Waits himself has been critical of cover versions of the song, saying he was "not that particularly crazy about [The Eagles'] rendition of it . . . I thought their version was a little antiseptic."[1]
In 1993, an early demo version of this song was released by Bizarre/Straight on The Early Years, Volume Two. The demo version features Waits accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, as opposed to the piano of the Closing Time version. The Early Years, Volume Two is a retrospective album of Tom Waits songs, consisting of recordings made before Waits actual debut album Closing Time. ...
Closing Time is the debut album of Tom Waits, released in 1973 (see 1973 in music) on Asylum Records. ...
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